Edgio, the new power player in the CDN industry, reported earnings on August 8, 2022. Once fierce rivals, Limelight and EdgeCast have come together to reshape the competitive landscape. It’s the first time they are reporting combined earnings, so it’ll
Akamai is out and Verizon EdgeCast is in. We never saw this coming. Distil Networks and Verizon EdgeCast have formed a partnership, where Verizon will resell Distil Network’s bot mitigation products. Distil Networks is the market leader of the growing
Has anyone ever wondered how much hardware is in CDN Ecosystem ? We have, so we’re going to make a futile effort of calculating a total. Keep in mind, its impossible to calculate the precise amount of servers + switches
According to MarketsandMarkets, the CDN market is “expected to grow from $3.71B in 2014 to $12.16B by 2019” at an annual compound growth rate of 26.8%. If that’s the case, than Akamai represents 53% of the market in 2014, based
As a lumberjack once said, “There She Goes”. The EdgeCast thing was a hell of ride. At one time, the name EdgeCast struck fear in hearts of the adversary. When Akamai and Limelight were fighting in accounts, and EdgeCast entered
The CDN Ecosystem continues to churn out new business models. No single CDN can be all things to all industries, hence the need for specialization. Most business models reflect the type of service a CDN offers, with the exception of
The CDN Ecosystem continues to flourish, as new players enter the industry with unique features and business models. The latest trio of entrants are the RAN based CDN innovators. They include Rev Software, Twin Prime and Kwicr. Rev Software has
Some big news just came out of the Limelight Networks (LLNW) camp. LLNW has just launched the DDoS Attack Interceptor, a DDoS mitigation solution that leverages “several scrubbing centers” located around the world. This is the most significant product launch
It looks like Microsoft has in thrown the towel to build out its CDN, and will instead rely on 3rd party CDNs like Verizon Edgecast for content delivery. However, this move is likely to impact Apple more than it will
The CDN market is “NOT” a $4 billion market, but a $40 billion market. When analyst determine the market size of any sector, it all boils down to the definition of the sector, and if the definition is off, then
Surprise surprise, after many years of laying low, Akamai has finally stepped out of its comfort zone and declared war on the pure-play CDN Ecosystem. Time will tell, but it seems that Akamai has set its eyes on being an
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 has dominated the CDN industry for the last decade in the revenue category. Limelight Networks (LLNW) came the closest in 2007 as show here: Akamai 2007 Revenue – $636M Limelight 2007 Revenue – $103M Akamai was only 6x bigger
Bizety is publishing version 13 of the CDN Ecosystem Diagram. Rev Software has been added, and also a handful of SDN+NFV vendors, most notably Big Switch Networks, one of the leading pioneers of SDN. Recently, Akamai and Juniper formed a
CloudFlare CloudFlare added a POP in Lima Peru bringing its total POP count to 29 CDN POPs Over the last 12 months CloudFlare’s LatAm traffic has increased 10x CloudFlare has plans to add 12 POPs in Mainland China in the
