Quantil, a US subsidiary of ChinaNetCenter and one of the leaders in CDN services in APAC, is expanding aggressively in North America, Europe and Latin America. So far, Quantil’s strategy is working and they are winning new business outside of
We’re excited to announce that our 2016 Independent CDN Landscape Report for Q1 is now available. The report has been created for the “CDN Buyer,” defined as any company 1) currently using a CDN 2) switching CDNs or 3) adding
It looks like the engineering folk at Akamai have been hard at work in their chemistry lab cooking up some new features for its clientele. Their latest invention is called the Bot Manager. It seems like Akamai has been paying
If Netflix grows its subscriber base to 100M by 2020, would that be considered a major accomplishment? Not really. However, if Netflix grows its subscribers to 200M, that would be major. A couple of days ago at CES, Netflix announced
LiveQoS, a startup based in Ottawa, Canada is a pioneer in the mobile optimization space. They are one of the very few companies providing a high performance file transfer service (UDP, TCP) for video delivery over mobile. They are like
CDN77, one of the leading European Pure-play CDNs just announced they’re fully supporting HTTP/2 across their global infrastructure. CDN77 currently has 28 PoPs, 3100+ customers and powers 8,400+ websites. I believe this makes them part of a handful of CDNs
Back in April 2014, Comcast Chief CDN Engineer, Jan van Doorn presented “Comcast CDN Architecture”. Comcast is likely the only Cable Operator in the world to have built its own CDN platform from scratch with open source software. Apache Traffic
A couple of weeks ago, an executive told me that CDNs would cease to exist in a few years. I took that as no more Akamai, no Limelight, no CloudFront. This executive is highly accomplished, and has decades of experience
Disruptive technologies and trends continue to transform the CDN business model. At the same, these disruptions usually usher in the creation of new CDN startups that come up new ways of optimizing, securing and delivering content. Three identifiable CDN periods
The video codec business is a billion dollar industry that enables entertainment and video streaming companies to grow at unprecedented rates. Entire ecosystems like Netflix and Youtube have come into existence because of the codec. Every few years a new
There seems to be some positive traction coming from the Limelight Networks (LLNW) camp. Their stock is up to $2.80/share, and they’ve been active in developing new products and value props. Here is a snapshot of the latest news: TheStreet
What’s going to be the fuel that drives the CDN ecosystem growth in 2014 onward, the video streaming product portfolio or the security feature set? I’ll do a quick deep dive analysis into the comparison of video delivery vs security,
