Earlier this month, Limelight Networks announced the fastest purge to date by its SmartPurge system: it removed 1.1 billion cached objects equaling 612 terabytes of data across the company’s global network in 123 milliseconds. Such speed is significant. Traditional ways
Over 10,000 new customers sign up for Cloudflare’s services daily. The tech start-up was founded in just 2010 and today serves more web traffic than Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Instagram, Bing, & Wikipedia combined from over 151 data centers worldwide. Each
Ericsson is soon set to make its Unified Delivery Network (UDN) an independent operating company, which will further leverage the computerized edge facilities of Tier 1 network service providers around the world to support “the functionalities essential to meeting the
Verizon Digital Media Services announced today that the transport protocol Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) has been put into effect across Verizon Digital Media Services’ global content delivery network, with 125 points of presence worldwide. QUIC can now easily be
nuu:bit, the advanced CDN company, recently announced its new Distributed Compute Environment (DCE). The nuu:bit DCE is designed to allow the execution of code at the network edge closest to the end user, aiming to make the development and deployment
At Altitude last month, Eddie Rogers, Principal Engineer, API Platform from Target presented on the retailer’s integration of Fastly’s log streaming to build dashboards and discussed the company’s history with the CDN. It started in 2015 when Target added Fastly’s CDN to
Microsoft just launched the public preview of its own global CDN network, which is now available through ‘Azure CDN’. Azure customers will be able to use and deliver content from Microsoft’s own global CDN network. The Microsoft CDN will be
A prototype developed by engineers at the University of Washington is able to stream HD video at 10K lower than current methods and without batteries. The new HD streaming method doesn’t need to be plugged in, which is useful as
Earlier this month, NGINX released the latest version of its flagship software, NGINX Plus R15, and announced the upcoming launches of NGINX Unit 1.0 and NGINX Controller R1. The NGINX application platform powers load balancers, microservices and API gateways. These
Wowza Media Systems is a leading streaming software, services and hardware company. It has 22,000 primary customers in over 170 countries and is growing by around 2,000 paid customers year-over-year. Wowza’s customers are wide-ranging, from SpaceX to local churches, from
Yottaa, a SaaS platform for accelerating eCommerce, saw its annual recurring revenue double last year, experiencing a 53% year-over-year increase. The web and mobile optimization services company was founded in 2009 by Coach Wei, a graduate of Tsinghua University and
AV1 compression is finally here with a release from the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) and its industry partners who are dominant players across the codec development, video encoding, delivery and playback ecosystem, including Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. AOMedia
Limelight Networks recently announced a new option for its Limelight Web Application Firewall (WAF): the Advanced Bot Manager. The company said that in light of the massive growth of bots, a new option was needed to protect digital content. According
Varnish Software has long been a leader in caching software, however, they have recently expanded their product portfolio; including an investment of resources in building out their do it yourself CDN product line. Their DIY CDN business is growing rapidly
Multi-national telecoms and networking company Ericsson announced recently that it is bringing 80 broadband service providers worldwide into its unified delivery network (UDN) platform partnership, introducing what it describes as a shared CDN. The investment is critical to the company’s
