Content Delivery Networks that minimize the cost of transmission, adapt to traffic spikes, and maximize download performance are likely to become key components of the Internet infrastructure. This session will describe the new area of "content networking," including recent IETF work and a new inter-domain CDN testbed.

About the Presenter
Brad Cain is Chief Scientist at Cereva Networks, providing leadership on next generation architectures in the areas of content delivery and internetworking. Before joining Cereva, he worked at one of the first commercial content delivery networks, Mirror Image Internet, where he helped develop new services for a content delivery platform.

Cain began his career at Bay Networks, where he was part of an advanced technology group focusing on new routing architectures. He is a long-time contributor (and working group chair) within the IETF and IRTF in the areas of content internetworking, IP multicast and IP routing. He has published numerous papers in the areas of routing and multicast; he has over 40 patents pending and holds a masters and bachelors in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware.