Exploring trends in CDN and web infrastructure.
Latest Stories
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
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
May 2014 Web Stats and CDN & CyberSecurity Activity Recap
In May, there was 975M websites, which is 16M more than in April. Apache is still the most widely used web server, followed by Microsoft IIS and Nginx. Getting to the 1B mark is proving a little difficult. In addition,
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
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
Part 1: Deep Dive into Apple CDN Build-out
In the next few posts, I’ll be analyzing the Apple CDN build-out, discussing the challenges they face, the cost for POP build-outs, strategy, talent gap, and so on. According to Rayburn, Apple has been busy building out its CDN infrastructure
Watch out Level 3, here comes Hibernia Networks
Hibernia Networks, one of the leading providers of global connectivity solutions in North America, Europe and APAC has officially launched its global Content Delivery Network. Their CDN has been in the works for the past year. Hibernia has 17 POPs,
Neustar UltraDNS vs Akamai DNS Services
Neustar UltraDNS recently experienced a major DDoS attack. Fortunately, UltraDNS stated it mitigated the attack, and that only a certain segment of their name servers experienced network saturation. However, unfortunately, the customers using that specific segment included Amazon.com, Salesforce.com, advertising.com
DDoS Impact on the Internet Startup Industry
Plenty of Fish, the popular online dating website was taken down by an 80Gbps DDoS attack impacting 1 million users. Last month, Meetup.com was taken down for 5 days, the courtesy of an 8Gbps DDoS attack. Statcounter, WPEngine, Aweber, and
Akamai vs Comcast CDN
Comcast is a new regional based CDN offering video delivery services, and large file delivery. Their CDN platform runs on the Apache Traffic Server. Since there is limited information from Comcast on their CDN, we can make some assumptions. If
Comcast, Welcome to the CDN Ecosystem
Comcast, welcome to the CDN Ecosystem. According to Dan Rayburn, Comast has officially entered the CDN market. As such, Comcast is now included in the popular CDN Ecosystem Diagram, the most up-to-date diagram representing all US based CDNs. There is
Will Cisco Acquire Akamai
On October 9, 2013, Cisco and Akamai announced a partnership that would incorporate Akamai’s CDN caching technology into the Cisco ISR router line. They billed it as the “ worlds first integrated Application Optimization Solution for Hybrid WANs”. Fast forward
Part 2: Decision Time for Instart Logic and Incapsula
Just like Instart Logic, Incapsula needs to find the next killer product or service that fuels its revenue growth for the next 2-4 years. Since Incapsula is already a leader in CyberSecurity, the only option left is video. Video delivery
Part 1: Decision Time for Instart Logic and Incapsula
Instart Logic and Incapsula, two of the most innovative startups in the CDN ecosystem are leaders in Web Application Streaming and CyberSecurity, respectively. The have developed game changing cloud features and services that a traditional CDN wouldn’t, not because they
Akamai vs Aryaka Networks in 2014
Watch out Sonal (Aryaka), here comes Akamai & Company ready to crash your party. Akamai has officially joined the WAN as-a-service party. After all, the WAN market is like 30x+ bigger than the CDN market. One can’t blame Akamai. The
Your spot for the coolest trends, ideas, and concepts.