How does a CDN improve performance for a user in Australia accessing a US-based site?

1. A It utilizes a more aggressive compression algorithm that significantly reduces the physical size of individual data blocks before they are transmitted over the wire.
2. B It serves static assets from a local 'Edge Server' and terminates the TCP/TLS connection nearby, avoiding the high-latency round-trips required to reach the origin.
3. C It relies on a specialized, high-capacity transatlantic fiber optic cable that is reserved exclusively for the transmission of high-priority content delivery traffic.
4. D It proactively predicts the user's navigational intent and pre-fetches the entire website's directory structure directly into the client's high-speed local memory.