Agile CDN Director
Agile TV
Category Streaming
Agile CDN Director is the intelligent core of the Agile CDN Solution, designed to optimize content delivery through advanced dynamic routing and policy enforcement. It empowers operators to enhance security, improve efficiency, and scale with flexibility:
Security - Safeguard high-value content, prevent piracy, and protect revenue.
Efficiency - Maximize performance and deliver exceptional Quality of Experience.
Flexibility - Benefit from modular design, easy integration, and future-ready scalability.
Agile CDN Director ensures robust control over your streaming infrastructure while driving down operational costs and preparing you for tomorrow’s demands.
Raising the Bar in Security for Content Delivery
Content security has become a growing priority as illegal streaming becomes an escalating threat, not only for Telco/ISP operators but for the entire content ecosystem, with significant economic repercussions. Due to this trend, one of the primary areas of
innovation for AgileTV’s CDN Director is security
Agile CDN Director delivers a new standard in CDN security, having already proven its value by blocking over 25 million unauthorized session attempts in a single month for one of our customers.
At the core of the solution is intelligent session management: powered by dynamic routing and policy enforcement capabilities that allow granular control over how sessions are validated and handled.
Operators can define custom, rule-based traffic flows using conditions, scripting functions, and token validation layers that protect against unauthorized access. CDN director enables designing complex and sophisticated flows to protect and to improve the security
for the operators’ high value content.
Examples of main security mechanisms include -
Multi-level token validation to confirm that user requests originate from authorized, legitimate sources;
Geolocation enforcement, VPN/anonymous IP detection, User-Agent filtering, regular expressions analysis, inspection of query parameters and headers and as many parameters as needed to provide the highest level of security for the Operator;
Support for custom fields to tailor protection to specific operator needs.
This robust security layer not only mitigates piracy, but frees up bandwidth and enhances network availability, directly improving Quality of Experience (QoE) for legitimate users. The solution acts as the entry point for every OTT video delivery request and
assigns the session to the optimal cache based on factors like network topology, content popularity, user location, and current load and capacity in the CDN, among others.
Combating Token Reuse & Sharing
The latest enhancement tackles a critical piracy vector: token reuse and sharing. This practice enables unauthorized users to access content using shared URLs or tokens, sometimes distributed on public forums, creating high-volume unauthorized access.
Impacts include
Revenue loss from unmonetized content access
Infrastructure misuse, as bandwidth is consumed by illegitimate traffic
QoE degradation during peak events due to traffic surges
Reputational damage and potential loss of premium content rights.
To combat this CDN Director now enforces single-use tokens, with optional identifiers like HomeID to validate not just the token, but the token-user pair. This makes shared tokens unusable, effectively neutralizing a major source of piracy.
Further protection includes
Dynamic blacklists for suspicious User-Agents, referrers, and other request metadata.
Comprehensive policy flows, where every session must clear multiple security gates before delivery is approved
Holistic Protection Across the CDN Ecosystem.
CDN Director is part of a broader AgileTV ecosystem that delivers flexible, operator-configurable security at multiple levels:
Customizable tokens (operator-generated, internal Agile tokens, or 3rd-party CDN tokens).
Rule-based session control and enforcement policies.
Complementary features in Agile Caches, safeguarding traffic even when attempts are made to bypass upstream protections.
In short, Agile CDN Director gives operators the control and confidence to deliver content securely at scale, protecting business models, safeguarding premium rights, and enhancing the user experience. With customizable security policies, real-time threat mitigation,
and seamless integration into the AgileTV ecosystem, it represents a major step forward in the fight against video piracy.
