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What is the difference between CDN and game accelerator? I believe many inexperienced people don't know what to do about it. Therefore, this article summarizes the causes and solutions of the problem. Through this article, I hope you can solve this problem.

Many gamers who understand IT will confuse CDN with game accelerator. in fact, CDN and online game accelerator have the ability to make network access faster, which can help players improve game experience and access efficiency, but they are essentially different in principle.

What is the effect of CDN on the game? Let's first look at the business form of the game scene itself. with the evolution of network technology and the innovation of the game experience, it is actually more pressure on the network environment. There are a large number of high-definition pictures and video materials in game websites, real-time updates and changes of dynamic page data, sudden website traffic caused by centralized promotion, game client software installation packages and patch updates, and other business scenarios, all need a good network environment to ensure that players around the world have a good access and download experience.

When the beta version of the game software is released, there will be a shortage of bandwidth, slow access speed and poor download experience, which is likely to lead to the loss of players and damage to word-of-mouth, and then bring economic losses to game manufacturers.

After using CDN, game manufacturers can cache game software to CDN edge nodes all over the place to provide players with stable and high-quality download services. At the same time, CDN can solve the problems that affect the player experience due to the continuous growth of user traffic, the processing capacity of the download server and the pressure on the server exit bandwidth.

In addition, for the dynamic content such as registration, transaction and real-time list update in the game scene, the dynamic acceleration capability of CDN can allow users to request to reach the server through an optimal transmission path through a set of detection and routing algorithms, so as to improve the transmission effect in the weak network environment and realize the transparent forwarding of game manufacturers' content, which is a non-invasive distribution method.

In addition, the game industry is frequently disturbed by traffic attacks, and CDN's natural distributed architecture can deploy defenses closer to the attacker. For example, Aliyun SCDN security acceleration products can improve content loading speed and ensure smooth operation across networks and multiple terminals, while avoiding site failures caused by web application attacks, player experience decline, user loss and enterprise losses.

The left side of the image above is before using CDN, and the right side is after using CDN.

The role of the game accelerator? As for the game accelerator, it has a lot to do with the operator network. When users are using computers or mobile phones to play games, they log in to the game server through the operator network. Once the operator network jitter and congestion, there will be delay, stutter and other problems in the game. This is like taking the ordinary national highway, limited by the road hardware, speed limit and traffic lights and other conditions, the travel time may be relatively slow.

When the user uses the game accelerator, the game accelerator hijacks the traffic of the game client, forwards the traffic to the accelerator server with the help of the VPN link of the game accelerator, and then returns to the game server. This whole process is equivalent to setting up a high-speed access link between the game accelerator and the game server, which can greatly improve the access efficiency compared with the ordinary network link in the home. Just like turning the national highway into a highway, the speed will naturally increase.

CDN is the infrastructure that game manufacturers need to deploy, and its essence is to distribute nearby content through sharing resources, improve the response speed, and is transparent to players; while game accelerators are generally purchased by users, and they are accelerated by hijacking traffic and transparent to game manufacturers. They are all created so that users can get a better accelerated experience.

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