ChinaCache, the leader in China's CDN industry, has announced a strategic cooperation with Youku Router to jointly create a new ecosystem in the CDN field in China.
Both sides have agreed on an intelligent terminal content sinking program to build a completely new CDN acceleration ecosystem. The intelligent terminal sinking program creates a new CDN business model which uses the Youku Router as the carrier for network content storage to achieve: network content scheduling, traffic guidance and content delivery for end-users, and push CDN acceleration service to household sides. This acceleration model is intended to improve terminal users' online surfing experience and fully accelerate the access speed for large-traffic content such as file downloads and video watching.
The imbalance of China's bandwidth resources and the characteristics of north and south areas operated by different operators have led to poor experiences for China broadband users. Although video sites and CDN service providers are trying to improve the bandwidth resources for Chinese users, due to limited user coverage of the CDN, service providers, and video websites' lack of focus on improving user bandwidth as an operating priority, users cannot smoothly stream HD video content. The cooperation of ChinaCache, the leader of Chinese CDN industry, and Youku Router, the game changer in the router field, is expected to fundamentally change the bandwidth issue of Chinese Internet users.
Currently, Youku has 250 million active users. Every Youku user or Internet user mainly uses downlink channels (download) when using broadband, and their uplink channels (upload) are mainly in an idle state. To make full use of the idle resources of the users (Youku has already tried to give users subsidies) and rebuild a virtual CDN network based on China's networks as the most economic way to improve the current bandwidth situation for Internet users.