<p>While other books on the market provide limited coverage of advanced CDN and streaming technologies, while concentrating solely on the fundamentals, this book provides an up-to-date comprehensive coverage of the state of the art advancements in CDN, with a special focus on Cloud Computing based CDN. The book includes CDN and media basics, performance models, case studies, and business analysis. It features industry case studies, tutorials, identification of open research issues to aid practitionersand researchers, and market analysis to provide a reference point for commercial entities. The book covers Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR), Content Delivery Cloud (CDC), Could Acceleration, Transparent Caching, Next Generation CDNS, CDN Business Intelligence and more. </p>