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Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) announced Wednesday it is expanding its global footprint into Africa, France and Mexico. The end-to-end media platform provider announced three new PoPs in three continents for its Edgecast content delivery network in Q1 2018. In
 PacketZoom, the San Mateo, California based startup focused on increasing mobile app engagement through in-app networking technology, released their most recent report yesterday on the effect of mobile app network performance on users. The PacketZoom report, performed in conjunction with
Aryaka Networks, a leader in Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN), has reached a major milestone in becoming the largest independent SD-WAN vendor in the world, capturing 18% market share and generating $21.3M in Q3-2017, according to IHS Data Center Network Equipment Market
Earlier this year, Palo Alto Networks took a significant step in vastly growing its security platform with the release of a GlobalProtect cloud service and a new Application Framework. The launch was announced at its Ignite 2017 event held in
Earlier this month, nuu:bit, a digital content and revenue acceleration company, announced its successful integration of its own CDN Edge Compute Platform with Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB. The service combines CDN Edge Compute with a multi-model, flexible big data store
Introduction to Open Source APMs: There are numerous open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools out there, which are a useful alternative to the paid tools on offer. Today, we’re going to look at four of the top open source
Bitmovin, a startup that provides an adaptive streaming HTML5 player that transcodes digital video and audio to various formats has recently introduced per-title encoding, a ground breaking technology. Founded in 2013 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, Bitmovin actively participates
PacketZoom, the San Mateo-based company that optimizes app performance on Wi-Fi and cell phone networks, announced last week that it had raised $5 million in Series A funding. The funding is intended to scale the development and optimization of the
New developments in routing usually require the careful extension of an existing protocol or the creation of new overlay extensions. Most protocols were originally designed based on now outdated and constrained software and hardware environment assumptions. To continue to deliver
Online video has long been plagued by buffering and pixelation challenges, leading to consumer drop-off, decline of advertising revenue and posing technical headaches to streaming engineers. A neural network AI from MIT CSAIL emerged earlier this month aiming to provide smooth
Since its founding in 2011 as a Content Delivery Network (CDN), Fastly has scaled rapidly into an edge cloud platform that serves more than 10% of all Internet requests (up to 400 billion a day), powering the systems behind Spotify
Over the last couple of years, Twitter has been posting a series of blogs on its infrastructure discussing how it reached its present scale of efficiency in its hardware and data centers to maximize uptime as the business scaled in
PacketZoom, the San Mateo, CA based company that focuses on speeding up mobile apps by eliminating performance roadblocks in WiFi and cellular networks, released two case studies last week demonstrating the use of PacketZoom’s in app acceleration technology to improve
