Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a content delivery method and apparatus, and an access network device. The method includes: receiving, by a cache server in an access network, a service request sent by a user equipment, where the service request contains an address of a content server; if the service data requested by the user equipment is stored, sending the stored service data to the user equipment, modifying the address of the content server in the received service request into an address of the cache server, and sending the modified service request to a core network device; receiving the modified service request that is routed by the core network device to the cache server; and sending the stored service data to the cache server through the Internet, the core network device, and the access network device, and discarding, by the cache server, the service data.