The transparent caching industry is alive and doing well. According to Frost & Sullivan, the market is set to grow to $350M by 2016. Qwilt and PeerApp are the pure-play companies in the industry. PeerApp declares itself a leader in
Akamai set a target to reach $5B in revenue by 2020, a $3B increase from 2014. Openheimer analyst stated it will take six years and $2B in acquisitions for Akamai to reach the same goal, creating a discrepancy between the
Comcast Comcast built a CDN platform from scratch using open source software like Apache Traffic Server, and commercial products like Splunk for logging and analytics. In addition, they built their own Content Router for content distribution. From start to finish,
