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Why Uzbekistan needs its own local CDN

 Introduction

Imagine that you're serving a website and the majority of your users are people from Uzbekistan. In other words, your business is targeting the local market of Uzbekistan. 

To make your website faster you will need a CDN, this can help your business to perform better. There are several reasons why your website can be slow without the CDN acceleration:

1. No existing Tier 2 network.

Tier 2 network plays an important role when it comes to the speed of the internet. It enables Tier 3 internet service providers to directly connect to the internet without other intermediate layer. In Uzbekistan, UzTelecom is the largest internet provider. According to the `traceroute` command it uses RETN tier-2 network. The RETN unfortunetly does not have the lines(network) in  Uzbekistan according to their map (source). This means that the majority of internet traffic needs to go through the single UzTelecom, which creates an overhead for the speed of internet.

2. Slow internet

Uzbekistan is ranked at 122nd position for mobile internet speed (source: https://www.speedtest.net/global-index) and 94th position on fixed broadband internet.

This makes it 10 times slower compared to the best performers.

3. Large country with a size of 447,400 square kilometers. 

While the country is very huge, the majority of internet users access the internet via mobile network, which results in more hops and slower speed.

Advantages of local CDN

There are already several CDN global companies that provide CDN services in Uzbekistan. These CDN services have servers in Uzbekistan(source: https://www.cdnplanet.com/geo/uzbekistan-cdn/). For example, G-core-labs, CDNVideo both these companies claim that they have servers in Tashkent the capital of Uzbekistan.

There are multiple advantages of local CDN companies over these global ones.

1. More POPs in the country. 

POPs are the point of presence, which could be a data center or set of datacenters in one location. Global CDN companies tend to have fewer POPs per specific country as it is financially not feasible. They try to cover the whole globe as much as possible, whereas the local CDN company can afford to have more POPs in the same country. Thus local CDN service can have an advantage of serving contents faster by locating servers closer to the users.

2. Targeting the Uzbekistan users

As local CDN company knows where the local people resides globally, it can put their POPs closer to these countries. For example, the second country with the largest population of Uzbekistan is Russia, the local CDN company can make POPs in cities where majority of Uzbekistani people live.

3. Cheaper prices

As the local CDN mostly operates within the country itself, providing CDN service is cheaper comparingly. It can take advantage of local infrastructure and labour market to reduce costs and bring benefit to the country in a long term.

Skorost.Uz (https://www.skorost.uz)

Skorost.Uz was developed for this purpose, It is the first local CDN company which can provide its service targetting local market of Uzbekistan. It has its own nameservers, cache servers mainly in Uzbekistan and in other parts of the world(picture below) to deliver contents to Uzbekistani people from the closest servers.

Skorost.Uz has a dashboard ready to be released for anyone who is willing to use CDN service for free to test its capabilities. More detail information can be found in the homepage: https://www.skorost.uz



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