There’s lot of things happening in LLNW’s world. Netflix left, their network recently experienced an outage, and leadership is struggling to stay ahead of the competition. The recent outage while unfortunate, is not really an anomaly, since many other cloud
What is the one of the most expensive and critical pieces in the CDN infrastructure? Of course, it’s bandwidth. Bandwidth is the variable cost component that increases as more more bandwidth is utilized. Although there are dozens of carriers offering
Netflix has invested tens of millions of dollars in building out its CDN infrastructure, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. According to StreamingMedia.com, prior to their CDN build-out, Netflix customers never had any streaming issues. Once Netflix built their
In one corner you got Netflix, Level 3 and Cogent. In the other corner you have AT&T, Verizon and Comcast. The fight is getting nastier, and also more entertaining. Reed Hastings is the man. He speaks his mind, and goes
In 2014, Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) acquired EdgeCast, one of the top 3 CDNs, and Uplynk, an innovative hybrid OVP platform running on Amazon. The acquisition will have some impact on the CDN industry, but more in the media
First, the Oscars are a streaming disaster, than HBOGO matches the streaming blunder with True Detective. Some have blamed the outage on traffic overflow. While many in the industry might believe this, I certainly don’t. The Olympics weren’t a disaster,
On one side of Net Neutrality is Netflix. On the other side is AT&T and Verizon. Netflix has an extremely powerful foe in these two companies. In 2013, AT&T and Verizon generated $20B in profits, and have 230M wireless customers.
I am sure Akamai is regretting their decision not to buy EdgeCast. If not, they will after this post. There are probably a few dozen CDN executives that haven’t considered the repercussions of the Verizon acquisition. I have, and the
The CDN and Broadcast Industry collided in 2013. Akamai, the largest pure-play CDN battled with Level 3, a leading Telco CDN with broadcast assets. In 2014, Verizon joins the fight with its recent acquisition. Now, there are two major Telco
Verizon made a brilliant move in acquiring EdgeCast. It caught the industry off guard. I thought IBM, Google or even Akamai would purchase EdgeCast. Many are wondering, how this will impact the Content Delivery industry. First, keeping the EdgeCast team
