Topic - Online Video & CDN
75% of Leading Broadcasters Plan to go HD by 2010
Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced that it is witnessing a trend toward higher definition (HD) video online.
New Online HD Video Platform for Content Owners
Velocix, provider of the worlds leading Digital Asset Delivery Network, and MediaMelon , a leading HD Video Delivery Network, today announced a partnership to deliver HD videos on behalf of content owners.
Panther Express gets $15.75M for Video Delivery
Panther Express is another content delivery network, or CDN, company. CDNs let a publisher deliver its online content to customers around the globe by caching content on geographically distributed servers. Akamai dominates the market, and has a nice $5 billion market value. With video streaming and sharing as hot as it is currently, there are a bunch of other companies wanting a share of the CDN market.
Dragonfly Gets $3Million Angel For HD Video Network
Dragonfly, an Internet video distribution provider, announced it has closed over $3 million in funding to date from a group of strategic individual investors. Dragonfly is using this investment to enhance its world-class multimedia content delivery network. In the coming months, the company will be looking to build out its partner network in an effort to more quickly integrate and monetize high-quality HD video into additional portals and platforms.
Overview – BitGravity Streaming Online HD Video CDN
Research demonstrates that analysts are expecting nearly 200% growth of the currently $800 million content delivery network (CDN) market for 2008. The highly competitive companies trailing behind industry leader Akamai, includes Limelight, Mirror Image, Itiva, Grid Networks, Amazon Services, and more recently, Digital Fountain. Companies are looking for ways to differentiate themselves in this highly competitive market. One way towards differentiation, though all CDNs are working on it, is to become the standard for HD video delivery.
Revolutionary New Model For HD Video Content Delivery
Digital Fountain, a leading supplier of underlying IP video and audio delivery technology to IPTV and mobile operators, will likely challenge the economic model that CDNs currently offer with it’s beta launch of its own video content delivery network (DF Splash) that specializes in instant-on high-definition (HD) video delivery. In addition, DF Splash is using Amazon.com’s Amazon EC2 Web infrastructure outsourcing service in order to offer a much more affordable solution.
Detailed Overview of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
Today, I found a wonderful post from Royal Pingdom that covers in detail Content Delivery Networks, their services, challenges, outlook and perspective, future predictions, etc… If you have ever wanted to know more about CDNs or wondered what needs they service, this is the article for you. Clearly with online video and the file sizes that go along with it, CDNs are crucial for delivering online video with speed and reliability. Thanks Peter for allowing us to share this with ReelSEO readers 
Below is the article:
