CDN is a term used for years before Cloudflare was funded[0][1] to mean exactly that. Specifically[0]: >CDNs act as trusted overlay networks that offer high-pe

CDN is a term used for years before Cloudflare was funded[0][1] to mean exactly that. Specifically[0]: >CDNs act as trusted overlay networks that offer high-performance delivery of common Web objects, static data, and rich multimedia content by distributing content load among servers that are close to the clients. and: >CDNs first emerged in 1998 to address the fact that the Web was not designed to handle large content transmissions over long distances. [0]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1250586 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1250586 [1]: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-77887-5 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-77887-5