T-Mobile parent company launches content delivery net

Deutsche Telekom partnering with EdgeCast Networks to offer CDN services

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.

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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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