Deutsche Telekom, the German parent company of wireless carrier T-Mobile USA, is offering its own content delivery network services to help customers ensure the quality of their bandwidth-intensive online content.
Deutsche Telekom's international wholesale division says that it will partner with Los Angeles-based CDN provider EdgeCast Networks to provide a set of CDN services aimed at helping audio and video streaming companies, gaming companies and advertizing providers support their high-bandwidth Internet content.
Among other things, Deutsche Telekom's CDN services will include Web site acceleration, which will help companies increase their Web sites' loading speeds; a video protocol that allows for video delivery through HTTP, thus eliminating the need for streams; on-demand video streaming that will use CDN servers nearest to users; and dedicated application hosting.
In offering its own CDN services, Deutsche Telekom will be taking on big-time CDN vendors such as Akamai and Limelight, which in recent months have beefed up their CDN service options by offering "no-buffer" video streaming and application acceleration.
CDNs are globally distributed networks of servers that store content on the edge of networks and deliver the content on demand according to the proximity of the user requesting it.
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Edgecast is not a good company to partner withBy elivingston1 on January 28, 2009, 12:59 pmI don't really think this company will be around for the long term. It looks like the owners won't. I wouldn't be surprised if the owners sold to DT. And that's...
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What are you basing this opinion on?By BC on January 29, 2009, 10:10 amelivingston, your argument that Edgecast isn't a good company to partner with isn't backed by a single fact, and is so flimsy that it makes me think you might very...
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You're Right Edgecast isn't a Good Company to Partner WithBy AJ on March 12, 2009, 6:02 pmI'm a former customer and I wasn't very happy with Edgecast at all. First, I tried to use their Flash Live service for an event in January and their service was...
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I've heard the same about EdgecastBy Anonymous on April 27, 2009, 4:37 pmThat's the rumor going around that there service isn't very reliable. That's why they're pushing this reseller side since they can't get any new customers. I've...
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