As new startups enter the CDN industry with innovative business models, it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between the competition, especially since much of the messaging revolves around performance and security. Although there are a couple of
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
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
At the start of August, Fastly announced that it had added a collection of new points of presence (PoPs) to its global network. They now have 40 points of presence globally, most recently adding a new state-of-the-art facility in Rio
Fastly announced today the release of their new edge cloud platform, which provides application delivery, scalability, and security at the edge of the network. Built into the platform are three products Fastly is also announcing today–the Fastly Image Optimizer, Load
Machine learning (ML) algorithms is the enabler of the next generation feature set. When it comes to ML, some companies are taking a leap of faith and betting the house on it. Once upon a time, ML learning was a
Two generations of CDN PoP architecture have come and gone. The CDN PoP architecture is the software stack that powers the content delivery services. The 1.0 architecture was developed almost two decades ago, which was a great fit for websites
In a previous post, we explained how Akamai could hurt the competition and capture market share by dropping its data transfer prices to $1/TB. The question is can Akamai’s business model thrive at $1/TB for data transfer? There are two schools
A few weeks ago, we posted an introduction to Red5, the live-streaming juggernaut that nobody’s talking about–but everybody should be. Red5 is the team of developers who reverse-engineered RTMP back in 2005, before Wowza was even formed. Over the past
Digital communication on cruise ships is not the first scenario that comes to mind when it comes to content streaming, but it’s crucial for crew members to transmit safety videos, weather updates, and emergency broadcasts to passengers, not to mention,
This election cycle’s first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was among the most highly anticipated in all of American history. It drew a massive global audience, with ad buyers predicting a marked 20-50% increase in viewership compared
In our quest for knowledge and insight, we’re going to start posting key videos that highlight important challenges in our industry – the industry being CDN, Cloud Security and Infrastructure. This presentation is from our friends over at Fastly. Tyler
AT&T has announced its plans to launch an affordable online video streaming service called DirecTV Now, which it will unveil later this year. What sets it apart, according to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is its “very, very aggressive price points,”
NGINX Plus is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) via AWS Cloud Quickstart, and can be accessed on the AWS Community Quick Starts landing page and the AWS Quickstart Github repository.
Greta Rolls Out Hybrid CDN and Peer-to-Peer Delivery Service Greta, a Swedish hybrid CDN, also has ambitious plans for the content distribution industry. The startup is hot on the heels of its $1.1 million seed funding round led by BlueYard
