# Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Status: public
Confidence: medium (0.865) (verified)
Last verified: 2026-05-28
Generation: human_only

## TL;DR
A content delivery network caches and serves web content from distributed edge locations. Reliable public claims should focus on caching, geographic distribution, and HTTP cache directives.

## Core Explanation
CDNs reduce origin load and can improve latency by serving cached assets from infrastructure closer to users. HTTP caching rules, including Cache-Control directives, determine when stored responses can be reused or must be revalidated.

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