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
Comcast is serious about altering the competitive landscape in the US last mile. First, they roll out a large scale 100 PoP Media based CDN across the US. Thereafter, they announced their plans to upgrade the entire US Network footprint,
The CDN Ecosystem Diagram has been updated to reflect the addition of Comcast CDN and PubNub to our industry. Comcast CDN is the only Cable Operator CDN in the world that has built its platform from the group up with
The day has finally arrived. Comcast Wholesale, a division of Comcast, officially launched its B2C CDN. What started off as an internally built caching platform designed to support its own VOD delivery efforts, is now a stand alone service being
Back in April 2014, Comcast Chief CDN Engineer, Jan van Doorn presented “Comcast CDN Architecture”. Comcast is likely the only Cable Operator in the world to have built its own CDN platform from scratch with open source software. Apache Traffic
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,
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
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
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. 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
In January 2012, Comcast started building an internal CDN. In November 2012, the CDN was fully deployed. It took 5 engineers, eleven months to build Comcast’s Internal CDN from scratch, using open source software, on commodity hardware. The Comcast team
