Mirror Image Internet
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Mirror Image Internet is a pure-play content delivery network (CDN)
Content Delivery Network
A content delivery network or content distribution network is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network....

 that was founded in 1997. The company provides content delivery services for object caching
Web cache
A web cache is a mechanism for the temporary storage of web documents, such as HTML pages and images, to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag...

, video on demand
Video on demand
Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...

, live streaming, content storage. and an online video platform. What makes the company unique among content delivery networks is that it is one of the few CDNs that enable customers to execute customized edge computing
Edge computing
Edge computing provides application processing load balancing capacity to corporate and other large-scale web servers. It is like an application cache, where the cache is in the Internet itself. Static web-sites being cached on mirror sites is not a new concept...

on its network, and the only CDN that claims to have a configurable, framework-based approach to enabling edge computing that does not require coding or deployment of customer's proprietary code to its network.
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