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Global Crossing teams with Limelight, EdgeCast for CDN services

Customers will be able to use one or both CDN services
By Brad Reed , Network World , 02/26/2009
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Global Crossing has signed a deal with content delivery network providers Limelight and EdgeCast that will give Global Crossing customers access to CDN services.

Global Crossing says that it wanted to offer CDN services to its customers from multiple vendors to give them flexibility in choosing the services that best meet their needs. An enterprise customer could use both Limelight and EdgeCast CDNs to deliver their content depending upon which service works better for different protocols, for example.

“If a customer wants to send out a Windows Media Player stream with one vendor and then have a Flash on-demand video with another vendor, then there’s a lot of different ways we can implement that,” says Al Sadowski, the senior product manager at Global Crossing. “A lot of times our customers want to diversify their CDNs.”

Sadowski says that Global Crossing isn’t currently in negotiations with other CDN vendors such as Akamai to sign up for similar agreements, but he adds that Global Crossing would be open to signing up more CDN vendors in the future. Global Crossing currently has a similar arrangement for offering managed network services with both Juniper and Cisco.

CDNs are networks that sit on the edge of other ISPs’ networks and ensure the quality of requested content over the Web. CDNs are designed to deliver content based on geographical location, meaning that content requests are delivered by the network that is in closet proximity to the end user.

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Edgecast to Sell CompanyBy elivingston1 on March 18, 2009, 12:33 pmThere's a rumor going around that they are going to sell their company to one of their partners probably DT. If you look at the owners history they always buy and...

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Edgecast is a terrible CDNBy Anonymous on May 15, 2009, 3:52 pmI've not only heard that they are selling their company, but they have run out of money. They are trying to make headway with the reseller side but I heard that...

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Edgecast Owners always Sell their companiesBy John on May 18, 2009, 5:30 pmJust looking at the owners history they only are in business for 3 years then sell their companies. If I had an account with them I would worry, plus I hear the...

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I hear that EdgeCast is run by wizards and goblinsBy Real-CDN-Expert on May 21, 2009, 4:30 amGet this fellow believers...I know a guy who had a friend who once used EdgeCast and he told my therapist who told me that EdgeCast is really staffed by a team of...

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Nice one - EdgeCast rocks and everyone knows it!By Big Mike on May 22, 2009, 12:48 amI'm laughing out loud at that last post! Way to turn some bitter rant from a hater into some fun. Score one for "Real-CDN-Expert" and score negative three for "Eli",...

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Edgecast I've heard is terribleBy Mike C on May 28, 2009, 6:09 pmThere's a lot of rumors going around that Edgecast is selling their company, and the owners are terrible people, etc. Then, I see this ridiculous post about goblins,...

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