VK is preparing for a traffic surge

VK is negotiating with major operators to install caching servers on their networks in order to speed up

downloading video content from users, informsForbes portal. Experts believe that its own CDN (“content delivery network”) will allow VK to prepare for a traffic surge in the event of YouTube shutting down. The service allows you to download content not from a central server, which can be located thousands of kilometers away, but from the nearest CDN presence point. In addition, VK is now actively poaching bloggers from YouTube. However, VK notes that the construction of the CDN is associated with the growing popularity of the company's services - the traffic of the VKontakte social network more than doubled last year.

According to the CEO of ComfortelDmitry Petrov, cited by Forbes, VK has taken the path of creating its own Google Global Cache (GGC, Google installs GGC servers on ISP networks around the world to speed up video downloads from its users and improve content quality) and provide large operators with caching servers . This will significantly relieve networks, as well as increase the stability and quality of content delivery, he explains.