Akamai acquires Limelight Networks

“Akamai acquires Limelight Networks” should be tomorrows headline. LLNW is very affordable, being that Akamai has a near $10B valuation, and $1B of cash in the bank. There are many good reasons to do it, and very few not to

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Evolution of CDN Features

Content Delivery Networks are defined by many things, but the feature set is one of importance. The CDNs that continue to lead the charge in product innovation increase their chances of long term survival and success. Some CDNs like Instart Logic

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DDoS Protection: Akamai, Incapsula and CloudFlare

Akamai Prolexic and Incapsula are making forward progress in building the best DDoS Protection Service in the tech industry. Both CDNs offer a feature rich DDoS protection platform that’s attracting new clients from various industries. Prolexic has been around for

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Incapsula CDN DDoS Scrubbing Centers

Incapsula is on a serious cyber security mission, doing all it can to separate itself from Akamai Prolexic. Incapsula is taking the end-to-end packet security concept and bringing it to life, offering customers a security solution that protects packets from

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PCI Compliant CDNs

What does Instart Logic, EdgeCast, Akamai, and Level 3 have in common? All four content delivery networks offer a PCI Compliant CDN solution that treats SSL (secure) and http content (non-secured) differently. Currently, CDNs offer three different flavors of non-secure/secure

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Mixing and Matching SSL and Non-SSL Content

Once upon a time, I was in a heated debate with a Sr. Web Engineer about their highly ranked Alexa website. From inception, the web engineering team architected their robust, highly trafficked website mixing and matching SSL and non-SSL content,

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Cool Company: RedSeal Networks

RedSeal Networks is a leading cyber security company offering a next-gen network infrastructure security platform. The company was founded in 2004 and has raised $39M to date. They cater to the Fortune 1000, health care, service provider industry, government agencies

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Top 2 CDNs in June 2014

Starting in June, we’ll start selecting our Top 2 CDNs for the month, in order to give them recognition for their accomplishments, vision and innovation. For June, we would like to congratulate Instart Logic and Incapsula. Both companies have made

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It’s About Time F5

Once upon a time, there was a young lad who reached out to the executives at F5, including the CEO, COO and Product Management. The lad had an idea, in which F5 could extend its BIG-IP/Global Traffic Manager functionality to

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Comcast CDN Business Model

Comcast, one of the largest media conglomerates with a $135B market cap, and 2013 revenues of $64B is the only regional based content delivery network in the US. Comcast brings a unique business model to the CDN ecosystem. According to

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Apple CDN, Akamai and Limelight

What does Apple CDN, Akamai, and Limelight have in common? Plenty. Netflix and Comcast built a CDN to support their own content delivery needs, with Comcast going the way of Amazon, not only being a CDN consumer, but a seller

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Part 3: Deep Dive into the Apple CDN

Netflix and Comcast built highly scalable content delivery networks that deliver multiple PB’s/month of VOD content to US audiences. They built their CDNs in a short period of time using open source software, and a few dozen engineers. However, if

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Part 2: Deep Dive into the Apple CDN

Apple has a few challenges in building out a global content delivery network. Having the massive financial resources at its disposal for CDN build-out definitely helps, however, that satisfies only part of the equation. AT&T had massive resources at their

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