3.4.2. Content delivery network
Content delivery platforms generally fail to have the spe- cific infrastructure, mechanisms, and application data required to generate dynamic learning contents, which multimedia-enabled m-learning applications utilized. Dynamic multimedia contents are provisioned directly from the source of the learning plat- form and may suffer delays because of WAN latencies. Only a few content delivery services providers, such as Akamai,6 imple- ment functional and structural components, reducing the delivery and response time of dynamic contents. For the m-learning environment and other multimedia-enabled mobile applications, implementing edge infrastructures over the mobile network oper- ator (MNO) may help mitigate the content delivery issue. The MNO owns all the technical interfaces to enhance the network and speed up content delivery. The lack of interaction and the rational behav- ior of the actors in distributed mobile application clearly impede a fully operational m-learning ecosystem based on incorporating content delivery functions across the actors and leveraging the monetization of m-learning environments.
6 http://www.akamai.com/cotendo.