Cloud acceleration is one form of delivering web content and applications as quickly as possible. Cloud acceleration is similar to a content delivery network

Content Delivery Network

A content delivery network or content distribution network is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network....

, or CDN, in that it attempts to get content to users as quickly as possible. While CDNs rely on edge caching

Edge computing

Edge computing provides application processing load balancing capacity to corporate and other large-scale web servers. It is like an application cache, where the cache is in the Internet itself. Static web-sites being cached on mirror sites is not a new concept...

, cloud acceleration optimizes the delivery path and routes content through public or private, managed networks.