Quantum Computing: Part 3
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Imperva Announces Enhancements to the Incapsula CDN Platform
Quantum Computing: Part 2
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CDN Network Classification
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Why Cato Networks Decided Against BGP In Building Its Cloud Network
We’re starting a new series on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the routing protocol of the Internet. When it comes to BGP, service providers live and die by it. However, there are some divergents who don’t like BGP and decided against it in their core networks. We are going to cover these divergents. Keep in mind, we are not experts in BGP or networking, but Cato Networks is a different story. Read More
Cool Company – PacketFabric
PacketFabric is an innovative networking startup focused on disrupting the legacy carrier model. They provide automated SDN-based Layer-2 Terabit-scale connectivity in more than 128 colocation facilities in the US, including Equinix, Digital Realty, Coresite and others. Started in 2015, the PacketFabric team is comprised of industry thought leaders and visionaries including Will Charnock, Richard Steenbergen, Jezzibell Gilmore and Anna Claiborne who have worked for the likes of SoftLayer, Limelight, GTT and Prolexic. Read More
Is Google Spanner and Azure Cosmos DB Really the Future of Distributed Database Technology
Quantum Computing: Part 1
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Will Google Abandon BGP Next Year and The Four Giants Will Follow
Google doesn't play by the same set of rules that ISP's, Carriers, CDN's, and others play by. Sometime next year, Google will abandon BGP once and for all. To date, Google has the largest private network in the world that carries 20-25% of all Internet traffic, hundreds of Global Cache Locations, 15 data centers, 90 PoPs, and they're just getting started. Their facilities blanket the global map, unlike anything or anyone in the past. Read More
The Next Era of Internet Routing – Content Delivery Internet Routing 2.0 and 3.0
Traditional content delivery Internet routing and Overlay Networks are history. A couple of companies have introduced new ways to route Internet traffic based on intelligent SDN-based software, and it's a game changer. In some cases, the software replaces traditional BGP functionality. This is a new era of Internet routing and it will accelerate over the next two years. For now, we're going to classify these periods as Internet Routing 2.0 and 3.0. Read More
The i-MLRP Model
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i-MLRP Research Study Part 2
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The State of the Media Infrastructure Industry
Akamai's Media Delivery Solutions division and Brightcove have disappointed The Street with their recent earnings report, and as a result their stock has dropped. Fortunately for Akamai, they have security to make up the shortfall. However, Brightcove has none. The question is what does the recent quarterly earnings tells us about the future of the media infrastructure industry? Read More
What Does Akamai’s Earnings Mean To The Industry
Akamai reported earnings yesterday and Cloud Security Solutions revenue was $110M, up 36% from Q1-2016, and Media Delivery Solutions revenue was down 9%, coming in at $187M. As the bellwether of the industry, Akamai's performance is an indicator of what's happening in the world of edge delivery and edge security. Read More
Flash News – Google and AWS Selling CDN Services for $2/TB
Live from NAB: Google and AWS are selling CDN services to a handful of companies for $0.002/GB ($2/TB). In other words, they are practically giving away CDN services to capture high-volume CDN media accounts. Google is aggressively pursing these accounts and winning the business. As usual, CloudFront is price matching Google. The $2/TB is below the cost structure of some CDNs even when settlement free peering is factored in. Read More
