Over the past couple years, video streaming, gaming, photo sharing and other forms of high-data usage media consumption have exploded across network platforms. More and more people are online, requesting more and more content, and at the crux of this
According to a recent Bloomberg article, Apple is “assembling a high speed network” and “upgrading how it builds its data centers” because “Apple wants to own pipes linking its four data centers and Internet” to “ensure fast, reliable delivery of
Why did Apple fail to stream its historic product launch recently? Why did the Oscars fail, or ESPN fail during the World Cup after it reached 1.7M simultaneous users? Why do large and small live streaming events fail at all?
Apple’s historical day turned out to be a live streaming disaster. According to Dan Rayburn, the Apple streaming failure stemmed from the improper set up of a web page hosting the video. What makes this worse, this is the second
Apple and Comcast built their CDN on Apache Traffic Server (ATS). Netflix and many pure-play CDNs did not. Netflix hired some extremely talented CDN engineers from a bigger CDN, and decided against ATS. When it comes to building a CDN,
Apple has reached a major milestone in building and deploying its CDN. They are currently using Akamai and Level 3 as their CDN providers. How much is Apple spending with Akamai annually? Let’s say it’s between $100M/yr to $150M/yr, as
Yesterday, it was revealed that Apple is delivering content on its newly rolled out CDN, which was built in record time – twelve months. Is this a major accomplishment, or is it just a CDN build-out rush job? We’ll answer
Many thanks to Dan Rayburn for the awesome write up on Apple’s CDN. Now it’s our turn to dissect the Apple CDN, compare it to other CDNs, decide what kind of CDN it is, and make a mini-case study out
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
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
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
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
According to many pundits in the tech world, Apple is building an internal CDN. The caching software is one of the key components of a CDN platform, and also one of the more complex when building a CDN. Implementing BGP
