White Papers
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Our White Papers
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Tests Show Energy Management Impact of Intel-based Varnish CDS
Content delivery (CD) services are growing with increased market demand for data rich content; energy management testing of Varnish Enterprise CD software on Intel servers show excellent energy efficiency.
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Varnish Enterprise Shows Up To 1.2 Tbps Data Rate, Up To 1.18 Gbps/Watt Efficiency
In tests with Intel® Xeon® CPU-based servers, Varnish demonstrates performance and power efficiency scalability for two real-world use cases at four deployment sizes with a maximum throughput of 1.2 Tbps.
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Sustainability: Our Commitment
The future for both businesses and all of society depends on achieving sustainability. Critical aspects of reaching a sustainable future include actions, such as reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions, and more generally, taking responsibility for our environment.
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Delivering up to 500Gbps Throughput for Next-Gen CDNs
Varnish and Intel teamed up to set new Live Linear and VOD performance milestones for TLS-encrypted video traffic. This white paper describes how they achieved record-setting CDN throughput numbers, setting the stage for next-generation CDN services by showing what is possible with commercially available software, broadly available Intel-based servers, and without using accelerators.
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Bridging the CDN capacity gap with near 400Gbps video delivery
This white paper discusses resulting benchmarks: 192 Gbps single-processor performance and dual-processor server performance of 383 Gbps. Read the white paper to understand the software and hardware considerations that make near line rate performance possible.
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The Future of Streaming Technologies
What will the next five years look like for OTT products and tech stacks? Download the white paper to learn more about what the future holds.
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Why the 5G era relies on a new breed of CDN
A new breed of CDN is needed for telcos to fully monetize 5G and to support the enhanced services and applications that separate the 5G era from the 4G world. Without this, 5G is in danger of stalling.
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Varnish Software and Intel – Optimizing content delivery network (CDN) performance
Varnish Software and Intel have worked together to deliver an optimized referenced solution for CDN providers. Read the white paper to see the astonishing results, including 194Gb/s throughput and sub-millisecond time-to-first-byte.
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Getting the most from 5G and edge cloud technology
As 5G and 5G-ready networks roll out, applications and use cases, are becoming clearer, but how can one leverage 5G’s low-latency, high-capacity capabilities?
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The future of streaming delivery – Beyond the inflection point
We have reached an inflection point for streaming video, which in some homes has become the norm but is still held back by infrastructure limits.
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No more boundaries – The blurring lines between financial services and technology companies
As everything from consumer-friendly, app-first banking to cryptocurrency payments and exchanges become mainstream, are we on the verge of a revolution in the financial, trading and banking services sector?
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HTTP streaming with Varnish Streaming Server
Delve into the history streaming of video or audio over HTTP and how it has evolved. Varnish Software has been working with some of the world’s leading companies to turn Varnish into an efficient video distribution solution.
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Security with Varnish
Read the Varnish Software paper on facing down the challenges of increasing cybersecurity threats and find out what Varnish can do for you.
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How to build your own CDN with Varnish Private CDN
With Varnish Software’s DevOps-friendly private/Private CDN solution you can build your own content delivery network and take back control of your content, maximize performance and manage costs.
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High cost of poor web performance
See potential causes, costs and risks of running a website that is not performing optimally. Understand whether an open source or subscription version of Varnish Cache is best suited to help you enhance your web performance.
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Varnish Administration Console (VAC)
This white paper will help you learn how to gain efficiencies from on-the-fly cache invalidation, real-time analytics and Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) flexibility.
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Varnish High Availability
Make sure your web content is available 24/7 across a global distribution of servers. Learn how Varnish High Availability delivers resilience, redundance and scalability even in peak traffic conditions.
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The value of real-time statistics with Varnish & VCS
If all of your web traffic flows through Varnish, you have all the real-time performance and use statistics you need and can easily export to your favorite tool or dashboard for real-time interpretation and optimization.
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The Varnish Paywall
Discover the origins of the paywall and the different content access rules you can adopt with Varnish Paywall, as well as how to integrate with other systems to ensure that both subscribed and regular users alike can gain very fast access to content after you've implemented Varnish Paywall.