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Content Delivery Networks (CDN) have been created to deliver relative static data to multiple edge points on the Internet to help reduce network latency. This approach is more of a reactive approach to data locality and does not take into account dynamic data, such as data in databases. With CDN data is completely replicated to those edges. However, what if devices need to collaborate with dynamic data and the network is able to determine where the devices are so that it can push the data closer to those devices?  In current network architecture routing and load balancing are two separate functions. The switches route packages to a given point and from there a load balancer might determine which resource has the least load \cit{loadbalance}. \cite{loadbalance}.  SDN can help create a more adaptive approach to load changes. Our core idea for this project is to being able to combine the resource load balancing and resource locality into a control application using SDN.