As a lumberjack once said, “There She Goes”. The EdgeCast thing was a hell of ride. At one time, the name EdgeCast struck fear in hearts of the adversary. When Akamai and Limelight were fighting in accounts, and EdgeCast entered
Apple has reached a major milestone in building and deploying its CDN. They are currently using Akamai and Level 3 as their CDN providers. How much is Apple spending with Akamai annually? Let’s say it’s between $100M/yr to $150M/yr, as
The recent HBO mishap, which occurred during the delivery of the final episode of True Detective, was blamed on excessive amount of viewership. The statement sounded like they were blaming the CDN. First, let’s start off by saying that VOD
Wowza Media Sytems, based in Evergreen Colorado, was started in 2005 by David Stubenvoll and Charlie Good. In the beginning, Wowza started off as a video blog, but then the two co-founders saw an opportunity to develop a product for
Netflix has about 30 million US customers. How much bandwidth do Netflix customers push on any given day? If all 30 million customers watch Netflix at the same time, they would be pushing 90Tbps (1 user = 3Mbps). Of course,
