There are approximately seventeen US based content delivery networks in the bizety CDN Ecosystem diagram. The annual revenues for Akamai and Limelight Networks are public information. The revenues for the remaining CDNs are guesstimates. Based on the information below the
Below is a high level CDN concept that I refer to as the Akamai End-to-End Packet Security Flow. Its named after Akamai because they’re the only CDN that can afford to do it. The concept has four main pieces: Akamai
In 2012, Paul Sagan, former CEO of Akamai, set a $5B revenue milestone for 2020 that was a five-fold increase to the current annual revenue stream. A few months afterwards, he retires, silently telling himself “see ya Tom”. Tom Lieghton
