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- Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond
- Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Network, Server, Akamai Technologies Inc., Content, Limelight Networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Data Centers, Networking, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn?
- Limelight Networks may have won a medal for its role behind the scenes to keep NBCOlympics.com humming, but the company is still dwarfed by its largest rival Akamai. The big question: Does Limelight have enough headroom to gain meaningful share from Akamai? Jason Perlow detailed how content...
- Tags: Patent, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks, Jason, Company, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet
- Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the InternetWe agree about content providers...But in my fantasy world you would not necessarily need a DVR you could pay extra for a download and you could get a stream anywhere with net access.It didn't melt but I think it got hot. ntntRE:...
- Tags: DVR, Digital video, Corporate communications, digital video recorder, Olympic Games, Limelight Networks, video, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-08-17
- Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet
- I admit it, even I was skeptical. When I received the first demonstration of the Silverlight plugin and the NBCOlympics.com web site back in March of this year at the 2008 Microsoft Technology Summit, where a group of Open Source experts gathered from around the world were asked for feedback...
- Tags: Akamai Technologies Inc., Corporate Communications, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Internet, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Jason Perlow, Limelight Networks, Marketing, Microsoft Windows, NBC Universal Inc., Network, Olympic Games, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Video
- Blog posts 2008-08-17
- Next Question: A Whole Lot of Traffic Shaping Going On, With Olympics Video?
- Next Question: A Whole Lot of Traffic Shaping Going On, With Olympics Video?Traffic Shaping is not the reasonTom:I suggest you review the material that Limelight Networks has put out regarding the Olympics streaming infrastructure.The reason why the Net has not melted is because the content is not on the...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Data centers, INTERNET, Storage, Traffic Shaping, Olympics Video, Limelight Networks
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Follow the money
- Nick Carr asks who is making the big money in the Web 2.0 era of user-generated (or user-submitted if you are Google) content. Certainly not the users, and the Web sites monetizing the content aren't overflowing with riches. Try infrastructure companies like Limelight Networks, which provides content delivery network services...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Limelight Networks, YouTube
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
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- Trafficking in Michael Jackson
- The news of Michael Jackson's death and subsequent coverage of his memorial service brought the Internet to a crawl and saturated even the most robust of content delivery networks. When the King of Pop died last week, I swore that I was going...
- Tags: Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- Optimum Ultra: So how fast is it?
- Optimum Online's $99 per month Ultra DOCSIS 3.0 service is one of fastest residential broadband offerings available today. But is it really "Up to" 101Mbps as advertised? As I mentioned in a post last week about broadband service outages, Last Friday, I was...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Router, Network, Adobe PDF, Broadband, Server, NetGear, Ultra DOCSIS 3.0, CISCO DPC3000, Speed Test, OOKLA, SRXN3205, Network Technology, Routers & Switches, Modems, Home Networking, Cable, Firewalls, Broadband Internet, Networking, Telecommunications, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Wirecast 3.5.2 (Windows)
- Wirecast is a live production tool that allows everyone to easily broadcast live events and create professional webcasts from any location - all you need is a computer and an internet connection. With the intuitive and fully integrated streaming capabilities, Wirecast makes it easy for anyone to share live experiences...
- Tags: built-In, On-demand, Microsoft Windows, Integration, Telestream, Wirecast, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing
- Software downloads 2009-04-11
- Anatomy of a storage overhaul: Facebook's photo system
- Facebook's photo storage system holds 850 million photos and costs a lot of dough. Niall Kennedy has a nice overview of what Facebook is doing to minimize its storage costs. Facebook's system, dubbed Haystack, is custom built but relies on content delivery networks and NetApp. Facebook is...
- Tags: Facebook, Photograph, Storage System, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Beyond the Edge: High-performance content delivery enabled by the Limelight Networks XD Platform
- This paper introduces a new and better technical approach to Internet content delivery, designed to address the escalating demands of today's online consumers. It's driven by the Limelight Networks® XD Platform and leverages patent-pending Adaptive Intelligence technologies to streamline and accelerate the entire delivery path, from origin to the...
- Tags: Content Delivery, High-performance, LimeLight
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Amazon launches CloudFront; Content delivery network margins go kaboom
- Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched CloudFront, a pay-as-you-go content delivery network. The move is likely to accelerate already brutal pricing in the content delivery network market, which includes Akamai and Limelight Networks among others. CloudFront's biggest feature is that there are no up-front commitments and long-term...
- Tags: Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Amazon.com Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., CloudFront, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Akamai: Weathering a price war; economic slowdown
- Akamai, the leader in content delivery networks--services that speed up video and Web pages on the Internet, posted solid third quarter results, but cut the outlook for the fourth quarter. The economy was cited for the lower guidance but some analysts say that price competition may be more worrisome. ...
- Tags: Akamai Technologies Inc., Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- My Awesome IT Job: Vice president of Operations, Limelight
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Event, Information Technology, Internet, Cloud Computing, Team Management, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- CISCO: Why the Olympics didn’t melt NBC
- Yesterday I posted about how Limelight Networks was used as the primary caching content provider for NBCOlympics.com and lifted a huge burden off on the public Internet by leveraging relationships with last mile ISPs. It's an amazing story about how technology can be used to solve immense problems. ...
- Tags: Camera, Cisco Systems Inc., Corporate Communications, Jason Perlow, Marketing, NBC Universal Inc., Olympic Games, Video
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- News to know: Limelight's Olympics; Software prices; Wordcamp 2008; Windows 7 Server
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet Larry Dignan: Limelight by the numbers: Akamai’s thorn? Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Server, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Semantic Web, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Limelight Networks Operations Center
- Limelight Networks Operations Center in Tempe, Arizona supports all the online media streaming for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. by Jason Perlow
- Tags: Jason Perlow, Online Media, olympics, media streaming, internet, datacenter
- Image galleries 2008-08-17
- Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!
- Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!RE: Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux![url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/08/nbcolympicscom-linux-users-sol.html]Hate it.[/url]Sticks in the kraw of Open Source folksas they can't stand working with anything MS related.What OS were you using?I was watching...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Web browsers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NBCOlympics.com, Linux!, video, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!
- It's not often when a piece of technology impresses me enough that I do the "wow" thing when I'm using it. But the Silverlight streaming video implementation on NBCOlympics.com is truly awesome, even if I am forced into using Internet Explorer to watch it (EDIT: It...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Streaming Video, Microsoft Corp., De Icaza, Linux, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Open Source, Digital Video, UNIX, .Net, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Uh-oh: Oprah's streamed New Earth Event runs short on bandwidth
- Last night's inaugural, Skype co-sponsored webcast of Oprah Winfrey's Oprah.com New Earth Event scored 500,000 simultaneous log-ins. That would be all well and good, but the gathering multitudes resulted in 242 Gbps of information moving over the 'net at the same time. ...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Webcast, Statement, Oprah Winfrey, Podcasts, Digital Media, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
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