Netflix’s CDN News Being Overblown By Many Wall Street Analysts, Focus On The...
I was hoping I wasn't going to have to write this post today, but it's clear that far too many people on Wall Street either aren't reading the details of what Netflix announced, or are simply trying...
View ArticleUpdated List Of Vendors In The Content Delivery and Transparent Caching Markets
It’s been awhile since I updated my list of companies connected to the content delivery market including vendors that offer CDN services, licensed and managed CDN platforms, transparent caching...
View ArticleThe Media Loves To Hype Live Events: Red Bull Stratos Webcast Not A Record
On Sunday, YouTube broadcast the live jump by Felix Baumgartner for the Red Bull Stratos event. Soon afterwards, multiple media outlets were quick to call it the largest webcast ever and said it broke...
View ArticleApple’s Live Webcast Fails, Akamai’s HLS Stream Dies
Apple’s live webcast of the launch of their new MacBook Pro and iPad Mini was a failure today after multiple users, including myself, had problems getting the stream to start or staying connected to...
View ArticleAT&T Finally Gives Up On Their In-House CDN: Will Resell Akamai’s CDN Services
In August I reported that AT&T was planning to shut down their in-house CDN and re-sell CDN services from Akamai or Limelight Networks and that Akamai would probably win the deal since they were...
View ArticleStreaming Video Can’t Scale At Cable TV Quality, Will Never Replace...
Almost five years to the day, the NYT published an article proclaiming that, “TV is becoming obsolete” and was joined by plenty of other media outlets claiming that within a few short years, streaming...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Webcast Poor Quality, Player Broken, Bad Experience
Last year, NBC Sports failed in their execution of the first Super Bowl webcast and this time around, CBSSports.com isn’t doing any better. Tonight’s webcast has really bad video quality, lots of...
View ArticleAmazon Adds More Functionality To Their Dynamic Content Delivery Platform,...
Last May, at the Content Delivery Summit event I organize each year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced support for dynamic content delivery, also referred to in the industry as dynamic site...
View ArticleAmazon Has A Shot At Disrupting Akamai And The Dynamic Site Acceleration Market
Nine months ago, Amazon launched their new dynamic content delivery service in beta and two weeks ago, I posted details on how their product is coming along and outlined new features they have added...
View ArticleThe Video CDN Business Is Flawed, YouTube Subsidizes Video Bandwidth On The Net
While many want to imply and insist that video delivered over the internet is going to one day rival or surpass cable TV as the main broadcast medium, which is an incorrect notion on its own, most are...
View ArticleThink Streaming Will Replace Cable TV? This Data On Streaming Quality Proves...
These days, many want to suggest that cable TV offerings will be “killed” or “replaced” by content services being delivered over the Internet using content delivery networks. While that’s not reality,...
View ArticleSee Amazon’s Latest Dynamic Site Delivery Product In Action at The CDN Summit
On Monday May 20th, at the Content Delivery Summit in NYC , (#cdnsummit) Amazon will show off the latest developments with their Dynamic Site Delivery offering. Amazon will demonstrate how you can use...
View ArticleTeliaSonera Announces Managed CDN and Site Acceleration Deal With EdgeCast
Earlier in the week, TeliaSonera announced a deal with EdgeCast to do a large managed CDN and site acceleration deployment in 3-4 countries where they are the incumbent telecom and have built a...
View ArticleAmazon Gets More Competitive With Announcement Of Custom SSL Support For...
Late in the day on Tuesday, Amazon announced that custom SSL domain names and root domain hosting support features have now been enabled for content owners who want to deliver static and dynamic...
View ArticleInstart Logic Launches New CDN To Focus On Delivering Web Applications Over...
There are a lot of different types of content delivery services in the market, pushing content over various types of networks and across many different devices. While the market is crowded with CDN...
View ArticleAmazon New SSL Pricing Isn’t Being Fairly Compared To Competitors
About two weeks ago, Amazon announced that custom SSL domain names and root domain hosting support features had been enabled for content owners looking to deliver static and dynamic content via...
View ArticleNetflix Presentation Details CDN Buildout, Move To SSD Storage (video)
Last month, at my annual Content Delivery Summit in NYC, Netflix’s VP of Content Delivery, Ken Florance, delivered a keynote presentation highlight how major ISPs around the world are using Netflix’s...
View ArticleNetflix Presentation Shows a Brief History of Their Streaming Technology (video)
Netflix started streaming in 2007 with an Internet Explorer plugin that hosted Windows Media Player. Today, there are more than 80 million active Netflix devices including smartphones, tablets, game...
View ArticleAmazon Adds More Functionality To Their Cloud Based Transcoding Service
In January, Amazon announced a new cloud based video transcoding service called Amazon Elastic Transcoder and while it was very bare-bones at launch, Amazon has already added a lot of new...
View ArticleEdgeCast Announces Big CDN Deal With Chunghwa Telecom In Taiwan
EdgeCast continues to expand their network and sales reach with a new telco managed CDN partnership with Chunghwa Telecom’s data communications business group (HiNet) In Taiwan. HiNet will use...
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