Content-delivery networks struggle as market shrinks. (Spotlight: Server Management for VOD).(video on demand)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
Multichannel News, April, 2002 by Brown, Karen
They rode the big waves when the Internet was at high tide, and many of them wiped out once that tide ebbed. Now, the remaining content-delivery networks are dealing with trends that may make the category name obsolete -- even as they try to stay afloat in still-rough economic surf. Content-delivery networks hit it big in 1998, when pioneer Akamai Technologies Inc.
started to offer edge-caching services. The idea was simple -- set up servers on the networks of major Internet-service providers to store clients' content, so when Web surfers nearby wanted it, it could be delivered more quickly. But the sector suffered along with other Internet businesses during the new economy's recent crash. Among the short list of companies sucked into the...
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