The Lay of the Land

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VERIZON DIGITAL MEDIA SERVICES (VDMS) EDGECAST CDN

LOCATION: Los Angeles

NOTABLE CUSTOMERS: Newsy, SnagFilms, Readers Digest

Having acquired EdgeCast CDN in 2013, VDMS places its CDN focus on streaming-video OTT service delivery, touting beefed-up security features, optimized streaming for mobile devices and a 24-hour support team of engineers.

GLOBECAST

LOCATION: Culver City, Calif.

NOTABLE CUSTOMERS: Intelsat S.A., Crown Media, Euronews

At the 2017 NAB Show, Globecast launched Optim Net, a CDN offloading service that integrates with major CDN providers and serves as a peer-assisted media delivery option, allowing viewers watching content to share in the delivery of that content to other viewers, easing CDN traffic demands.

AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES

LOCATION: Cambridge, Mass.

NOTABLE CUSTOMERS: CBC, Fox Sports, Sky, Starz

Among the better-known CDN providers, Akamai counts nearly 30 media and entertainment companies among its clients, pushes 95 Exabytes of data a year to billions of devices and uses more than 200,000 servers in more than 130 countries to deliver data and content.

BAMTECH

LOCATION: New York

NOTABLE CUSTOMERS: WWE, HBO, NHL

A privately held spinoff of MLB Advanced Media with The Walt Disney Co. purchasing a one-third stake in the company for $1 billion in mid-2016 BAMTech handles the streaming content delivery needs for a bevy of major services, including HBO Now, Major League Baseball s MLB.tv, WWE Network, the PGA Tour, the NHL, and, most recently, major eSports players.

LIMELIGHT NETWORKS

LOCATION: Tempe, Ariz.

NOTABLE CUSTOMERS: BBC, DirecTV, CuriosityStream

Limelight touts its combination of a global, private fiber-backbone IP network and a full suite of integrated cloud-based services as a unique offering in the CDN space, one that covers content delivery, video management and data needs for OTT and other media providers.

FASTLY

LOCATION: San Francisco

NOTABLE CUSTOMERS: Vimeo, BuzzFeed, The New York Times

CDN firm Fastly, which picked up $50 million in financing in May, allows for clients to choose between using its content delivery services exclusively, or as part of a hybrid approach with other CDN services.

CONVIVA

LOCATION: Foster City, Calif.

NOTABLE CUSTOMERS: CBS, ESPN, NFL

Most of Convivas customers utilize one or more CDNs and the company s offerings allow publishers to better understand how their services and their CDNs are performing, with Conviva giving clients a better view on what s needed for a high-quality viewing experience.

IBM CLOUD VIDEO

LOCATION: Armonk, N.Y.

NOTABLE CUSTOMERS: Lionsgate, HGTV, CBC

IBM Cloud Video s solution offers support for both live and VOD streaming, with multiscreen video prep and delivery, while also offering data insights into end-user video views and usage.

LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS

LOCATION: Broomfield, Colo.

NOTABLE CUSTOMERS: Netflix, NFL, Fox Sports

Level 3, which is being acquired by CenturyLink, owns and operates its own global Tier-1 network, running its CDN with a focus on video delivery and the movement of large-size files.

COMCAST TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

LOCATION: Denver

NOTABLE CUSTOMERS: National Geographic

Comcast Technology Solutions CDN architecture is specifically designed to deliver media content, optimized to deliver broadcast-quality video, with support for live and VOD content across devices.

AMAZON WEB SERVICES CLOUDFRONT

LOCATION: Seattle

NOTABLE CUSTOMERS: PBS, Discovery Communications

Amazons CloudFront CDN service is integrated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and connected to its global infrastructure, working with other Amazon services, including AWS Shield for distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) mitigation, Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2.

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