Aframe, one of the leading SaaS platforms for video production collaboration, has been going strong for the last 4+ years, winning some big media accounts like Fox Sports. Level 3 entered the same market a few months back, with its
Limelight Networks (LLNW) has rejected the suspicious $645M buyout offer from the private equity firm Tuition Build Inc. According to LLNW, Tuition Build “does not have the experience, credentials, financial resources or capability to complete the proposed transaction”. In another
Today, the CDN market is very competitive, more than in the past. However, the present competition is much stronger and smarter, than the past players. A few years ago, Akamai had to compete with the likes of Panther Express, Vital
Here are the latest 2014 annual revenue estimates for 18 US-based CDNs. Although Aryaka Networks is a “WAN as-a-service (WAAS)” provider, and Instart Logic a “Software-defined Application Delivery (SDAD)” company, we include them in our coverage, in order to analyze,
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
Azure CDN is a “CDN Specialist” in the Media Delivery Services segment, along with Level 3, capable of hosting the largest streaming events such as the Olympics. Azure and Level 3 have the scale and infrastructure to stream hundreds of
What does Instart Logic, EdgeCast, Akamai, and Level 3 have in common? All four content delivery networks offer a PCI Compliant CDN solution that treats SSL (secure) and http content (non-secured) differently. Currently, CDNs offer three different flavors of non-secure/secure
In the next few posts, I’ll be analyzing the Apple CDN build-out, discussing the challenges they face, the cost for POP build-outs, strategy, talent gap, and so on. According to Rayburn, Apple has been busy building out its CDN infrastructure
Hibernia Networks, one of the leading providers of global connectivity solutions in North America, Europe and APAC has officially launched its global Content Delivery Network. Their CDN has been in the works for the past year. Hibernia has 17 POPs,
Although Akamai, Fastly, EdgeCast and Limelight are bitter enemies that hate to lose to each other, they all have one common enemy, hardware obsolescence. Akamai might be the fastest content delivery network today, but that doesn’t mean it will be
There are approximately seventeen US based content delivery networks in the bizety CDN Ecosystem diagram. The annual revenues for Akamai and Limelight Networks are public information. The revenues for the remaining CDNs are guesstimates. Based on the information below the
Amazon Cloudfront and Level 3 are the only two Non Pure-play CDNs in the market today, with Verizon DMS following closely behind. Both are very successful catering to a specific clientele, offering some services that other CDNs don’t, including Akamai.
The CDN Ecosystem diagram has been updated, and now includes the only two Telco CDNs in the US, EdgeCast Verizon and Level 3. These two are different from all other CDNs in that they are part of a Carrier. EdgeCast
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,
A couple of weeks back, Andy Ellis, Chief Security Officer of Akamai, published a detailed blog post on the heartbleed incident, and so did EdgeCast, Limelight, and most other CDNs. Also, Andy responded to my email when I requested an
