# The Internet's New Edge Builders

DevFeed: [The Internet's New Edge Builders](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-internet-s-new-edge-builders-11443.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://labs.ripe.net/author/armanobosyan/the-internets-new-edge-builders/>)

Author: Arman Obosyan

Published: 2026-09-08T06:55:03Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [RIPE Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ripe-labs.md>)

Topics: [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Networks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networks.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [amazon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [Meta](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/meta.md>), [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>)

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## AI overview

The article examines how content and cloud platforms are moving from operating private backbones toward controlling delivery infrastructure closer to users. It discusses the changing role of traditional CDNs, public measurements of international bandwidth, private interconnection and caches within access networks, and what Google and Meta deployments reveal about network operators.

## Source excerpt

After building private backbones, content and cloud platforms are now moving closer to users. In doing so, they are taking on delivery roles once associated mainly with independent CDNs.