Traffic to Valve has been growing 75% year-on-year. To keep up with the breakneck pace of growth, the global online gaming company has upgraded its network infrastructure to include Level 3 Communications’ 100 Gbps internet ports, which are available in
Big news, CenturyLink has acquired Level 3. The move caught many off guard, and overall, it’s a good one. Now that Jeff Storey is out of the picture, Glen Post should siphon off Level’s 3 CDN business and merge it
There are some CDNs out there that have introduced a “1 cent/GB” data transfer model from day 1. In fact, one of them clearly touts the following on their homepage: “The lowest cost CDN on the planet: $01/GB”. To add
It should come as no surprise that 2017 is going to be “The Year of The Bloodbath” for the CDN industry. Many pure-plays will exit the industry, most by acquisition or merger. The writing is on the wall for CDNs
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
Given the burgeoning market for SD-WAN solutions, Cisco and the way of the router has been looking like yesterday’s news, but they announced this week that they have invested in VeloCloud’s SD-WAN solution. According to VeloCloud, Cisco is integrating its
Recently, Level 3 announced that its customer Valve Software (Steam) is upgrading its Internet Ports to 100Gbps. Although they don’t mention what they’re upgrading from – its likely from 10Gbps. The latest high capacity Internet Ports are available in 26
Semiweekly Updates Is Level 3 The Next U.S. DoD’s CDN? The United States Department of Defense’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will be offering contracts worth up to $4.3 billion to AT&T, CenturyLink, Level 3, Verizon Business, Artel, BT, GTT
Top Weekly Updates 1. Instart Logic Partners with Verisign for Advanced DDoS Mitigation and Scrubbing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have doubled in the last year as hybrid clouds have become increasingly popular. Verisign, which protects 70% of the
It appears that Cogent has finally shed its “Skeletons from the Closet” and has emerged as a new force in the CDN Ecosystem. Cogent is now providing “High Quality Transit” that rivals Level 3. For many years, Cogent was perceived
According to Cowen & Company Analyst Colby Synesael, he believes that Comcast is “highly likely” to acquire Level 3 or Zayo, because building a national fiber network would be too expensive, not to mention time consuming. With Comcast raking in $2.1B
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
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
Masergy Communications is shaking up the traditional network market, as it introduces an NFV solution that’s a first of its kind; enterprises now have the ability to download virtualized router + firewall functionality through on online store. The new product
Black Lotus, the pure-play DDoS Mitigation Company has been acquired by Level 3 for an undisclosed amount. These two companies are the perfect match for each other, and the timing impeccable. In one respect, we can blame Akamai for this
