the Distribution Network in a Supply Chain Sunil Chopra Kellogg School of Management‚ Northwestern University 2001 Sheridan Road‚ Evanston‚ IL 60208‚ U.S.A Tel: 1-847-491-8169; Fax: 1-847-467-1220; e-mail:s-chopra@kellogg.northwestern.edu Abstract This paper describes a framework for designing the distribution network in a supply chain. Various factors influencing the choice of distribution network are described. We then discuss different choices of distribution networks and their relative
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Akamai Technologies: The Web’s Content Distributor What does Akamai need to geographically disperse its servers to deliver its customers’ Web content? Necesita dispersar los servidores para acercar los datos a las personas que se encuentran lejos de la fuente principal‚ es decir que hace copias del archivo original y lo guarda en servidores alrededor del mundo para que cuando alguien lo necesite‚ la transferencia sea mas rápida ya que se redireccionara la fuente del archivo al servidor mas cercano
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Winner-Take-All in Networked Markets: Summary By Pooyan Safari This article is partitioned into three parts which is summarized here. First‚ different kinds of platform structures are introduced. Then the most important part‚ which we will use later in order to analyze the Google study case‚ is dealt with the influencing factors on the so called structures. In the end there is shown a framework so that to analyze the factors mentioned in the previous section. By definition platforms are subset
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Value Delivery Network A value delivery network allows many companies to create customer value that cannot be created by use of the company’s own value chain. A "Value delivery network‚" is made up of the company‚ suppliers‚ distributors‚ and ultimately the customers who partner with each other to improve the performance of the entire system (Armstrong et al. 52). This type of system interests me because I have always been curious as to what path a product or service must take in order to be considered
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1. Who are major competitor(s) to Akamai? Focus on one major competitor. Do some research and outline key differences between Akamai and its competitor in terms of services‚ pricing‚ technology‚ target customer etc. Provide some numbers if possible. 1. The three major competitors to Akamai are : a. Limelight networks b. Mirror Image c. Level 3 communications Difference between Akamai and Limelight networks in terms of: Limelight’s market share was 10% while Akamai’s was 66% for the Fiscal
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Using Porter’s competitive forces model‚ analyze the NBA’s market situation. How does the use of Akamai help the NBA compete in this market? The NBA uses Porter’s competitive forces model with Akamai by providing more than 45‚ 000 media assets‚ publishing content to multiple distribution channels and combine an enterprise-class media management with unmatched reach and reliability of Akamai’s global delivery system. Using Porter’s generic strategies model‚ what do you think is the NBA’s overall strategy
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Akamai Case Digest 1. Why did Akamai charge content providers and subsidize ISPs? Akamai Technology operated the content delivery network. Its first service‚ FreeFlow‚ facilitated the delivery of bandwidth-intensive page elements. A content provider could tag the object that it wanted to serve over the Akamai network. After tagging‚ websites could be over 10 times faster and be protected against sudden traffic bursts. FreeFlow could reduce the content providers’ payments to ISPs for bandwidth
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Problem Akamai’s edge servers completely revolutionize the way internet content is delivered to the end user. However‚ “because of the diverse programming methods used by websites‚ transferring the data to Akamai’s edge servers will add complexity to both set-up and maintenance.” (Xanedu Courspack‚ PG 88). Two of the strategic questions that Akamai faces are as follows. First‚ should it keep the status quo of working with all web server platforms‚ or should it align with one partner? Second‚ going
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[Type the company name] | Merit Pay at Carroll Universiy | Should the Winners Take All? | | | 11/19/2010 | | Introduction: Performance related pay in academia‚ in particular merit pay‚ is often a source of controversy. As cited in Value-Related Issues in a Departmental Merit Pay‚ a faculty-designed merit pay plan is defined as “a process that may produce a pay increase for university faculty who perform a variety of worthwhile work activities according to the practices‚ policies
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Why don’t major business firms distribute their videos using P2P networks like BitTorrent? BitTorrent is a protocol that supports the practice of peer-to-peer file sharing and is used for distributing large amounts of data over the Internet. Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or work loads between peers. Emerging collaborative P2P systems are going beyond the era of peers doing similar things while sharing resources‚ and are looking for
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