Coral is a free peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. It allows a user to run a web site that offers high performance and meets huge demand, all for the price of a $50/month cable mod
Delivery Network Acceleration Dramatically lower content delivery costs Superior user experience Peerless reliability The Consumer Standard for Content Delivery Since its invention is 2001, BitTorrent has fast become the cons
At the time of Joost’s limited beta launch, the service melted down and became unavailable for many users. Despite server fixes, as recently as yesterday, tipsters were writing in to tell us the service was down again. And the underlying technologies at
is launching a content delivery network called VeriSign Intelligent CDN. It’s new territory for VeriSign, but a logical extension of its $62 million purchase of Kontiki earlier this year. Prior to the acquisition, Kontiki had signed a number of contra
Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) took another step toward filling out its IPTV story for carriers, announcing a VOD software platform that also does networked personal video recorder (nPVR) and ad insertion. (See Cisco Offers VOD System.)
the content distribution network space is consolidating quite rapidly, and all comers are going after Akamai, which continues to stay on top. How long it can stay there? I am not even going to try and guess.
Vitalstream, a video streaming CDN, went public on NASDAQ in June and today has a current market capitalization of $188M.
What the market sees is that Akamai is vulnerable on two fronts: innovation and expense. On the innovation side, Akamai does not appear to be building the CDN of the future that supports large file distribution, web services at the edge and peer-to-peer t
