This Thursday (on April 26, 2012), Turbobytes, one of the upcoming technical startups in the Content Delivery Network industry, announced the launch of its multi-platform meta-CDN service, which allows customers to leverage services of four different CDN networks as of now, in real-time to optimize delivery of content and costs.
Basically, what Turbobytes does is that it creates an engine by addition of a non-blocking JavaScript code and the engine will analyze data in real-time and make decision about which of the CDNs to use for providing best performance results. Turbobytes makes use of Dyn for DNS and optimization and reconfigures the DNS settings based on region, country and even state-levels to provide maximum performance. The offering also provides a dashboard, which shows the performance of different CDNs in different regions in real-time, thus allowing the system to make intelligent switching decisions.
Turbobytes mentioned that since it allows customers to use different CDNs without needing to make major changes in their system or create accounts with different CDN providers, its Multi-CDN offering is expected to provide great results. As of now, the Company leverages EdgeCast Networks, Level 3 Communications, Internap and NetDNA, and the Company will be adding more CDN providers to its list later.
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Created at April 28th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Last Wednesday (on April 18, 2012), ChinaCache, the China-based Content Delivery Network and IP services providing branch of ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd., announced that it had signed a contract with Unity Technologies ApS (Unity), which provides an award-winning development platform for games and other applications.
As part of the deal, ChinaCache will provide CDN services to Unity for providing faster software downloads to the latter’s customers, especially in China and Asia regions. Unity mentioned that it had required a scalable and reliable provider to ensure high quality and performance delivery of its platform and content, especially in the rapidly growing user-based in Asia-Pacific region and that is where, with is wide reach and high performance, the ChinaCache CDN solution was a perfect fit.
At its end, ChinaCache mentioned that it was happy with the deal and it would closely work with Unity to provide the latter with various security and cloud-based solutions in addition to the CDN for meeting with its requirements better.
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Created at April 24th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Today (on April 23, 2012), Highwinds, the leading provider of content delivery, network and cloud-based IP services, announced that it had been selected by Online Warmongers to improve the delivery and network performance of the production version of its AAA-rated free-to-play shooter game, War Inc. Battle Zone, which had more than a million players in its Beta.
Since the game required immense scalability and network reach to provide high performance content delivery, Online Warmongers decided to leverage Highwinds Game Delivery Network (GDN), which is the first game-delivery specific CDN offering. Apart from the GDN, Highwinds will also use its StrikeTracker 2 console to provide Online Warmongers with analytics and information about player geography, completion ratio and other real-time information, thus allowing the latter’s marketing team to make strategic decisions.
At its end, Highwinds mentioned that it was extremely happy with the deal and the prospect of working with and helping a customer like Online Warmongers, which seemed to have a lot of potential of growth, in growing and expanding their global reach.
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Created at April 23rd, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This Tuesday (on April 17, 2012), Level 3 Communications, one of the leading providers of network services and Content Delivery Network solutions, announced that it had been selected as the exclusive provider for broadcast services and Content Delivery Network for the upcoming World Triathlon Series by International Triathlon Union (ITU), which is the governing body for Triathlon.
The ITU World Triathlon Series will see athletes from around the globe compete in eight-city series and the races will involve 1.5 km swim, 40 km biking and a 10 km run, and there is also a shorter version, which involves 0.75 km swim, 20 km biking and 5 km run. Since the Triathlon is extremely popular and had audience in more than 160 countries around the globe, the ITU wanted a solution that would help ensure fast streaming of videos and all performance, reliability and scalability for its online presence, and that is where it selected Level 3.
At its end, Level 3 mentioned that it was happy with the deal, which would involve ITU use both, Level 3’s Vyvx Video Broadcasting offering for encoding and video streaming, and its global Content Delivery Network offering for better performance and scalability.
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Created at April 20th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Yesterday (on April 16, 2012), Level 3 Communications, the leading provider of CDN and IP-based solutions, announced that it had completed a major global expansion of its Content Delivery Network reach, and to meet up the growth and requirements of its customers, the Company also more than doubled its global capacity over the last couple years.
Level 3 mentioned that its global network capacity in 2010 was around 2.15 Tbps and now the global CDN capacity has crossed 5.6 Tbps. Apart from improving the speed of the network, the Company also added PoP locations in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Saudi Arabia and Canada, and recently also added a connection in East Africa, thus allowing Level 3 to have its reach in both North and South America, Asia Pacific, Middle-East Asia as well as Africa. The reach and capacity makes it the number one choice for global leaders like Netflix as a CDN provider.
At its end, Level 3 mentioned that it was extremely happy with the brisk pace and the smooth network upgradation, and mentioned that it would continue to scale its networks up further, thus improving the QoS for its customers.
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Created at April 17th, 2012 in Funding and Expansion |
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Last Wednesday (on April 11, 2012), Dell Inc., the leading provider of innovative solutions for Information Technology domain, announced the launch of Dell Deliver, a Content Delivery Network solution that is powered by hardware from Dell, video processing software from Elemental and CDN software from EdgeCast Networks, the world’s fastest and most reliable CDN provider.
Dell mentioned that the Dell Deliver software would be its first Content Delivery Platform, which would allow network providers to sell CDN services to their customers. Apart from this, leveraging the video management and streaming technologies of Elemental, the Dell Deliver will make use of massively parallel NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and deliver high quality multimedia content over Dell’s infrastructure network. Using the latest Intel processors and Dell’s native hardware, the Dell Deliver is expected to deliver better results, as well as there is less space and lesser power requirements from the hardware.
At its end, Dell was happy for the launch of its CDN providing services and mentioned that the CDN would be deployed using 12th generation servers of its Dell PowerEdge series.
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Created at April 16th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations, New Technology Announcements |
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This Thursday (on April 5, 2012), DreamHost, one of the leading providers of webhosting services, announced that it had collaborated with CloudFlare, the innovative network and security services provider, to provide additional services for its customers by adding CloudFlare’s Content Delivery Network and additional security tools as part of its standard hosting plans.
The addition of these services are expected to improve the performance of the websites of DreamHost’s customers, thus providing additional services, and since CloudFlare’s added security will be added, it will also make the websites more secure against various security exploits. DreamHost also worked with CloudFlare to create a special “CloudFlare Plus” offering specially for its customers. This offering will include various premium services of CloudFlare and will be provided as an optional paid upgrade of $9.95 to DreamHost’s customers.
DreamHost mentioned that it was happy to work with CloudFlare for providing both the free and the premium CloudFlare Plus to its customers. The service is made available from inside the DreamHost Control Panel, thus making it easy for customers to deploy the solutions.
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Created at April 7th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations, New Technology Announcements |
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Today (on April 5, 2012), DNN4Less, the fast growing hosting Company from DotNetNuke, announced the launch of its Content Delivery Network, the “CloudExcel” solution. The launch of this service is to allow improving the performance and security of the website owners, who make use of DNN4Less hosting by leveraging the power of CDN systems.
DNN4Less mentioned that the CloudExcel service would work as a CDN with a security in conjunction with the DotNetNuke website, thus providing the users with enhanced security. Apart from this, the Company had deployed edge servers at various global locations near the primary Internet Exchange Points, thus making them super-charged PoPs or as DotNetNuke calls them, the SuperPoPs. The CDN offers both origin pull for small static files as well as rich media streaming as part of its offering, and with the global load balancing, the CDN is expected to provide additional availability and performance improvements.
The CloudExcel solution is already made available to the customers of DNN4Less, and the solution serves content from its advanced network of 21 global PoP locations that connects more than 1150 user networks around the globe.
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Created at April 5th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Last Thursday (on March 29, 2012), Jet-Stream, one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Networks and CDN Management solutions, announced that Telenor group, one of the international providers of telecommunication, data and media communication services had inked an agreement with Jet-Stream for the management of Telenor’s Content Delivery Network offering.
While Telenor already has a competitive CDN platform in terms of reliability and scalability, it needed a more stable platform that would allow its customers get better performance and quality for streaming their OTT content. This is where, with its known reliability and extremely useful analytics information, the Jet-Stream CDN management tools will help Telenor. Apart from providing analytics information, moving to Jet-Stream will also provide Telenor’s CDN with adaptive bit-rate streaming, an easy-to-use portal and a wide range of APIs for its customers to make the most of CDN offering.
Both Telenor and Jet-Stream were happy with the deal, and Jet-Stream mentioned that moving to its CDN management solution would help improve Telenor’s multi-ISP CDN to expand into new markets like mobile broadband and hybrid TV delivery.
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Created at April 2nd, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Today (on March 29, 2012), Limelight Networks, one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Networks, announced that Vance Publishing Corporation is leveraging its cloud-based services including Limelight Dynamic Site Platform (LDSP), Limelight Video Platform (LVP) and Limelight content delivery network to re-launch its set of B2B websites.
Vance mentioned that they needed a solution with an integrated flow and support of a central repository for its websites. Apart from this, they needed the services to be able to quickly sync the content across, and that is where Limelight Networks emerged winner. Uploading of the content through the integrated Limelight dashboard, allows the data to be synched between its Dynamic Site Platform and Video platform automatically. The use of the CDN allows the performance to be better and improves security and scalability of Vance’s websites.
Limelight Networks mentioned that it was happy to be selected and after moving to its Dynamic Site Platform, Vance’s overall traffic increased to 4.3 million in 2011, and the overall website advertising grew by almost 177% as compared to 2010.
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Created at March 29th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This report contains an analysis on the top CDN's in the industry.