 A CDN is a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, and some of the advantages it brought to the Internet and online users was dynamic imaging, flash video, faster website download times, increased site performance and improved business continuity and uptime.Speedera added a layer of security to Web sites, resulting in reduction of risk of distributed denial-of-service attacks and bandwidth hijacking.A provider of distributed application hosting and content delivery services, Speedera was founded by Ajit Gupta (CEO), Rich Day (chief architect), and Eric Swildens (CTO).