Over the last year in the telecom industry, all the conversation has been around GAFAN (Google + Apple + Facebook + Amazon + Netflix) and how they’re investing in dark fiber, undersea cabling systems, satellites, balloons, MVNOS and last mile infrastructure.
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
When it comes to buying transit in the form of 10Gbps Internet Ports from carriers, CDNs buy from the usual suspects, some more than others, and at various price points in the form of $/Mbps. The primary last mile /
It’s been an interesting year for the CyberSecurity CDN business model, as new companies enter the space with their DDoS or DDoS+WAF security offering. There are a dozen CDNs providing this feature, and the number is growing every other month.
The Internet has been torn asunder at the news of Verizon buying AOL. The PR machines are on overdrive trying to figure out the reason “why Verizon acquired AOL”. There are dozens of theories on “why the acquisition” and most
It’s looks like the the recent ruling on Net Neutrality is starting to move the needle in favor of the Middle-mile Middlemen, kinda, sorta. There are some winners and losers in this soap opera, but it will take some time
Technology innovation in the wireline and wireless industry is experiencing unprecedented growth. In a few years, Gbps connectivity to the last mile eyeball networks (US wireline & wireless) will become the norm. Everyone and everything that participates in the Content
The Internet Giants (Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon) have been on a rampage investing in middle mile infrastructure, more specifically dark fiber, submarine cable systems, and to some degree, spectrum for a while now . The two primary reasons: 1)
Verizon and AT&T have been competing against each other in the regulated and unregulated markets for decades, in all areas of the business, including wireless, wireline, metro, data, voice, IP, data center, and so on. It’s co-petition at its finest,
Citizens Utilities Company was once a small time telephone company serving small communities and rural areas in the US. In 2000, they changed their name to “Citizens Communications Company”, and eight years later to “Frontier Communications Company”. Frontier has grown
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,
December marks the one year anniversary in which Prolexic and EdgeCast were acquired. Akamai paid $370M for Prolexic, and Verizon paid $350M for EdgeCast. Both were sound acquisitions, which expanded the feature sets of Akamai and Verizon, and plugged a
It’s been a known fact for years that a few CDNs charge customers for Professional Services. The debate is old, and many CDNs try to use it against Akamai when competing with them in accounts. Usually it goes something like
WAN as-a-service (WAAS) is one of the most disruptive technologies to enter the WAN market over the last few years. The core tenant of WAAS is to do away with the costly and timely-to-deploy MPLS network. Any business with offices
