Netflix has about 30 million US customers. How much bandwidth do Netflix customers push on any given day? If all 30 million customers watch Netflix at the same time, they would be pushing 90Tbps (1 user = 3Mbps). Of course,
Finding the next billion dollar idea in the CDN industry is proving difficult. So far, no one has done it yet. Akamai, Limelight & EdgeCast, are the only three CDNs with the financial resources, R&D, and technical know-how, to be
F5 Networks, the leading provider of application delivery network appliances, is a great success story. It has seen steady growth over the last decade. In the last three years, revenue and net income has increased year-over-year. As of September 30,
Below are some interesting numbers. I decided to calculate the annual revenue per customer, and compare them across 4 different CDNs. The numbers are guesstimates at best, with the exception of Limelight. Limelight provides the actual number of customers in
Finding the CDN of any website is possible with a trace route. In most cases, the trace route can identify the CDN being used. It’s not 100% accurate but it’s good enough. Below are the trace routes for the Fortune
Internap, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, acquired hosting company iweb on October 2013 for $145M. iweb, which caters to the SMB segment, generated $44M in sales and $11M in EBITA over a 12 month period. Back in 2012, Internap acquired Voxel, an
Internap, an infrastructure provider publicly traded, has 500 employees and recorded $69M in revenues for the quarter ending Sept 30, 2013. It has been losing money every quarter for the last several quarters. Back in October 2006, they acquired Vital
OnApp, based in London, was founded in July 2010. They received $20M in VC funding, have about 120 employees, and more than 800 clients in 87 countries. OnApp offers an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform for Telcos, Hosting Companies, & MSPs. The
Akamai dominates the Fortune 500 landscape. No other CDN comes close. My guess is Akamai owns 90%+ of the relationships in that market. Can any CDN challenge Akamai in the Fortune 500? Can Faslty, CacheFly, CloudFlare, ChinaCache or others win
When it comes to popular Internet companies like Linkedin, Pinterest, Airbnb, & so on, smaller CDNs like Cachefly, or startup CDNs like Fastly, have a decent shot at winning the business against Akamai. Internet companies are all about performance, features,
In my previous post, I noted that Akamai barely beat EdgeCast by 4. In this post, I’ll take the opposite position, as there are two sides to every tale. Akamai delivered twice as many websites as EdgeCast. However, doing a
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens to Riverbed, whether it remains a public company, or it is acquired in a leveraged buy-out by a private equity firm. Regardless, Riverbed remains on the path to innovation, and it’s
The 2014 CDN Report Card is available now. Click here to read. 1st Place – Akamai 2nd Place – EdgeCast 3rd Place – Limelight Networks 4th Place – Check out the report
The 2014 CDN Report Card ranking US based CDNs comes out tomorrow. Akamai is in first place. Find out the tomorrow who comes in 2nd, 3rd, 4th…. The report is free and no registration required.
Continuing from my previous post, when Limelight Networks gets back to the basics, then I would create a separate group or division, like a company within a company, that is focused on Digital Presence. The Digital Presence team would operate
