Simon Lyall wrote:
Just wondering if anyone is aware of any commercial Content Delivery Networks with distributed NZ-based Internet delivery points apart from Akamai and Citylink?
By "commercial" I mean ones that people can buy delivery off, not "internal only" ones such as the root servers.
By "distributed" I mean a minimum of APE and WIX. Connectivity to the other half of the NZ eyeballs would be good too.
Hi Simon At my last employer we looked at CDNs quite extensively, None of the large international CDNs had plans to have a NZ presence. (Apart from Akamai and Citylink). Lime Wire were the closest with a buildout happening in Sydney. So initially we chose Akamai and found that there were significant issue with coping with the range of large video files especially during some peaky traffic. We then chose Citylink and as far as I know the team are still very happy with the situation. Citylink mange to deliver the full range of files and streams even when coping with gigabits of peaky traffic. Of course there are still large issues, notably the two large telcos, but recent discussions with one of these suggests that they are beginning to "get it". Not that I suggest holding your breath! Chris