New CDN deployments
Besides telcos, hosting providers jump into the CDN market space as well. Hosting providers have different needs, different architectures, different problems to solve.
Where telcos need to offload their backbones and want to monetize their infrastructure by offering advanced CDN services, hosting providers need to upgrade from regular web hosting to offer video streaming services, and they need to offload traffic to save on transit costs.
Hosting providers don’t have the financial, infrastructural and human resources that telcos have.
They don’t own the entire infrastructure but outsource (partially) to carriers. So they can’t work with network embedded CDN solutions. If they could actually afford these extremely expensive routers and appliances. They don’t have the time or the money for the training that these solutions require.They don’t have the many years experience that streaming providers have.
Therefore they need a CDN solution that is abstracted from the physical network. That runs on the COTS servers they are familiar with. That doesn’t need a dozen certified engineers to deploy and operate. That brings professional streaming technologies into their reach. That can be operated by less than 1FTE.
Jet Stream successfully deployed two new CDNs in the hosting providers market:
Net Ground is a quality hosting provider in the Netherlands. To offer professional streaming services to their customers, Net Ground licensed VDO-X and now operates a full-blown, next-generation CDN.
Claranet is a leading managed services provider, headquartered in Portugal, with 14 offices and 16 datacenters throughout Western-Europe. The company focusses on complex infrastructures for leading customers. The company works for 36,000 enterprises including well-known brands such as Bloomberg, Aribus and Vivendi. To offer professional streaming services to their customers, Claranet licensed VDO-X and now operates a full-blown, next-generation CDN.
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