Here some big CDN news. The Phoenix Business Journal is reporting that Tuition Build Inc. based in The Silicon Valley, has made a hostile offer for Limelight Networks (LLNW) for $644M, or $6.55/share, a nice premium over Friday’s closing price
Limelight Networks hit a major milestone today, in that their stock price is $3+ per share. Four positive activities helped push LLNW stock up $1 per share over the last week: LLNW wins lawsuit against Akamai, LLNW SVP buys 100,000
The Era of CDN Specialization is more relevant now, than it ever was before. Instart Logic, Incapsula, Aryaka Networks, and others are fragmenting the CDN Ecosystem more and more, by focusing and specializing in a specific set of services, being
Although the chances of Akamai acquiring Limelight Networks are slim, what is the impact if it happens? The impact would be huge, re-arranging the layer at the top of pyramid for the largest CDNs. Currently, Akamai, Limelight and EdgeCast are
Content Delivery Networks are defined by many things, but the feature set is one of importance. The CDNs that continue to lead the charge in product innovation increase their chances of long term survival and success. Some CDNs like Instart Logic
What does Apple CDN, Akamai, and Limelight have in common? Plenty. Netflix and Comcast built a CDN to support their own content delivery needs, with Comcast going the way of Amazon, not only being a CDN consumer, but a seller
Neustar UltraDNS recently experienced a major DDoS attack. Fortunately, UltraDNS stated it mitigated the attack, and that only a certain segment of their name servers experienced network saturation. However, unfortunately, the customers using that specific segment included Amazon.com, Salesforce.com, advertising.com
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
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
Akamai dominates the Fortune 1000, and serves the majority of the Top Ranked Alexa websites in one capacity or another. CloudFlare is one of the leaders of the SMB (Small & Medium Businesses) sector, and serves a few Top Alexa
Akamai is the #1 CDN in the ecosystem, followed by EdgeCast and Limelight Networks, respectively. Akamai is the only CDN in the ecosystem that offers every type of CDN functionality, as displayed in the diagram below. EdgeCast is a close
What is the impact to Limelight Networks (LLNW) if they acquire Alert Logic? In this post, we’ll do a deep dive discussion into that scenario. First, let’s start off by evaluating LLNW’s position in the CDN ecosystem. On the last
What’s the impact to the CDN Industry if Limelight Networks (LLNW) acquires Alert Logic? Based on history, we can make some educated guesses. Let’s do a quick deep dive analysis into possible outcomes. For starters, the acquisition will go down
Limelight Networks (LLNW) has been adding executive leadership to the ranks over the last month. A few weeks ago, they hired an SVP with experience in mergers and acquisitions. On April 10, 2014, LLNW appointed Gray Hall to the Board
