Limelight Networks and Tencent Cloud recently announced a major reseller agreement that radically expands access to each company’s services. Limelight will offer its CDN customers in China its service through Tencent Cloud. Reciprocally, Tencent will offer CDN services from Limelight
Bloomberg news reported yesterday that Akamai has brought on Morgan Stanley to conduct a strategic review to evaluate its options, including a recommendation for a potential sale. Last month, Elliott Management disclosed it had acquired 6.5 percent of Akamai shares.
Of the 4 million+ websites that use CloudFlare, nearly all (98.01%) use IPv6. This has been a long time coming, since IPv6 first debuted commercially a decade ago in 2006 as the 2.0 version of IPv4. In order to move
Is DIY An Emerging Trend Is the Do-it-Yourself model the next big trend, a game changer and disruptor of legacy business models? Or is it a blip on the radar and anomaly. Before we answer, lets agree that DIY is
M=Market Cap and S=2015 revenues In the early 1900’s, the business pioneers that changed the world were Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt and John D. Rockefeller. In the early 2000’s, their equivalent is The Mighty GAFAN+M Clan,
Top Weekly Updates Comcast to Rollout Gigabit Broadband by End of 2016 After a successful test of a DOCSIS 3.1 modem in Philadelphia, Comcast said it will offer a new gigabit-speed service by the end of 2016. So far, one
Top Weekly Updates  1. Fastly Expands Operations Globally In keeping pace with expanding content delivery traffic, CDN provider Fastly has recently announced an addition of two new Points of Presence (POPs) in Brisbane and Perth, Australia and one a new
Earlier in the year, we found out that Apple was in conversations with many of the leading networks about creating a skinny TV bundle for it customers. In doing so, one camp believes it will have dramatic repercussions on the
Sometimes the research results get interesting when conducting analysis on various metrics in the industry. Over the last few months, we’ve been talking about the big bad wolf called GAFAN+M. Shockingly, the market valuation for the GAFAN+M jumped about $500B
We’re starting a new blog post series called “The Ugly Truth”, and the purpose of each post is to ask and answer the most difficult question pertaining to our industry. The question is carefully selected, and it reflects the question
Akamai, ignore Wall Street. Then continue to build out your network, by investing tens of millions of dollars in buying capacity, colo, servers, switches, routers and infrastructure, every quarter, because you will definitely need it in 2 years. Wall Street
For the last few months now, we’ve been tracking the total market cap for GAFAN (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix) – who are the largest Internet companies in their respective industries. From July 2015 to October 2015, GAFAN’s total market
Let’s put a check mark next to Apple, as they join Google in their quest to control the wireless last mile. According to Business Insider, Apple is in talks with carriers to launch an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) in
Akamai is the 800 pound gorilla in the land of giants. The global content delivery ecosystem is too vital for any one company to dominate. Just a few years back, none of these giants had a CDN. Eventually, they came
According to StreamingMedia, HEVC Advance, a new group that formed a patent pool for licensing HEVC technology, plans on charging something to the effect of 0.5% of gross revenue for HEVC usage, that is retroactive “to the date of first
