Reduce Bandwidth Consumption With Delivery Optimization
Windows updates, upgrades, and applications often include large file packages, which can consume significant network resources during download and distribution.
Delivery Optimization (DO) is a cloud-managed HTTP downloader designed to address this challenge.
It allows Windows devices to retrieve packages from alternate sources, such as other devices on the network or a dedicated cache server, in addition to traditional internet-based servers (referred to as "HTTP sources" in DO documentation).
By distributing the download workload among multiple devices, Delivery Optimization can significantly reduce bandwidth consumption.
Peer-to-peer functionality is available as a part of Windows with many settings that can be managed via MDM or Group Policy. By default, peer-to-peer is enabled using the local LAN network.
To leverage Delivery Optimization features, devices must have internet access and connectivity to Delivery Optimization cloud services.
If alternate sources are available, the client downloads content from those sources in parallel for optimal delivery.
If the desired content is unavailable from either source, DO seamlessly falls back to HTTP servers to complete the download.