A CDN service provider shares its CDN infrastructure with a network to
enable a network service provider (NSP) to offer a private-labeled
network content delivery network (NCDN or "private CDN") to participating
content providers. The CDNSP preferably provides the hardware, software
and services required to build, deploy, operate and manage the CDN for
the NCDN customer. Thus, the NCDN customer has access to and can make
available to participating content providers one or more of the content
delivery services (e.g., HTTP delivery, streaming media delivery,
application delivery, and the like) available from the global CDN without
having to provide the large capital investment, R&D expense and labor
necessary to successfully deploy and operate the network itself. Rather,
the global CDN service provider simply operates the private CDN for the
network as a managed service.