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Also known as: edge node
A reader machine placed near customers geographically, often in a separate city or continent from the main spool, to cut round-trip time and transit costs. Requests it cannot satisfy locally are pulled from the core storage behind it. For a customer, the practical effect is a lower latency connection and better throughput per connection than reaching across an ocean.
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