Since I'm a marketing guy now, I might as well sink into metaphysical
consideration when it comes to the field of expertise that I'm working on
daily. Let's try this, I'll go over the different ways of Delivering Content
over the Internet and then wander on each one and deliver some random thoughts
on my current and past experience. The good thing here is that I've been
working pretty much on every side of the story: ISPs, Carriers, Internet
eXchanges and even massive Content Networks. I guess I learned a lot from every
of those experiences, from end user Access Technologies constraints to ISPs'
national backbones, through central/decentralized content platforms finally to
CDN provider.
Sit back, get popcorn ready, treat yourself a beer, this might take a few
articles :)
Tag - cdn
Thursday 19 March 2009
Random Content Delivery Networking thoughts (Pt.1)
By gregoire on Thursday 19 March 2009, 00:21
Monday 15 September 2008
The CDN era
By gregoire on Monday 15 September 2008, 00:35
CDN is -teh- new trend in the internet industry. That is a fact. Here we go,
Media meet Internet, Internet meet Media. What you never thought possible
happened: the nerdy sysops met the broadcast men in black. Two worlds that
everyone deeply thought would never collide. CDN ( Content Delivery
Networking ) is todays latest toy for IT deciders and newly born
startups, just as MPLS VPNs were a decade ago. When billion dollar CSI:Miami
actor David Caruso founds a streaming media company, the
uneducated masses start investigating on what CDN is...