Edgio, the new power player in the CDN industry, reported earnings on August 8, 2022. Once fierce rivals, Limelight and EdgeCast have come together to reshape the competitive landscape. It’s the first time they are reporting combined earnings, so it’ll
We’re midway through Q2-2020 and industry activity is at an all-time high. We’ll summarize the latest market developments starting with Cedexis, then follow up with Edge Gravity, Subspace (new CDN), and more. Is Citrix Shutting Down Cedexis Rumors have been
This month, we’re celebrating our 6th year anniversary of reporting on the CDN industry and 12 years of working in it. It’s been quite a ride. When we first started, the CDN industry was boring because there was very little
Limelight Networks has officially launched its edge computing product line. It joins Cloudflare, Fastly, StackPath, and CenturyLink in this new segment. In our industry, edge computing is defined as having the capabilities to ingest, process, store, and deliver data from
Earlier today, Fastly announced earnings for the first time and the market reacted favorably, pushing up their stock price. Fastly joins Akamai and Limelight Networks as publicly-traded companies that compete in the market for application and content delivery, cloud security,
The Fastly IPO was a success for the entire industry. Fastly, along with Cloudflare, StackPath, and Limelight Networks are leading the efforts in edge computing innovation, providing developers the capabilities to build, deploy, and run apps at the edge. From
Tomorrow Fastly will go public breaking a 12-year dry spell for a CDN IPO. Limelight Networks went public in June 2007, nearly 1 year after AWS officially launched with S3, SQS, and EC2 in March 2006. The good news for Fastly,
Last Friday, Fastly announced it had filed an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The number of shares that will be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been set. Fastly is expected
Limelight Networks recently launched Limelight Realtime Video Streaming, an industry-first sub-second, globally scalable live video streaming solution that is supported by major browsers and devices. It also supports integrated realtime data, enabling the creation of interactive live online experiences that
In the race to go public, who will go first – Cloudflare, Fastly or StackPath? The CDN industry has been in a dry spell for 11 years and counting. Akamai went public in 1999, nearly 20 years ago. Their shares
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
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
Limelight Networks and Tencent Cloud recently announced a major reseller agreement that radically expands access to each company’s services. Limelight will offer its CDN customers in China its service through Tencent Cloud. Reciprocally, Tencent will offer CDN services from Limelight
Over the last year, Limelight Networks has been busy increasing efficiency and growing its global network. In fact, they increased server capacity by 50% and network capacity 39%, opened 12 new Points of Presence (PoPs), including three in India alone,
Limelight recently rolled out EdgeQuery Analytics, a new suite of tools for businesses that record, manage, and interpret website traffic and user data patterns. EdgeQuery’s real-time aggregation software can help businesses better understand how their users interact with their websites,
