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. -- Simon J. Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.
At the conference Geoff H asked who had played with CDNs and only got one or two hands. At least I'm pretty sure that was what he was asking, some of his points were coming thick and fast. Were you watching the stream? Dean 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.
Dean Pemberton wrote:
At the conference Geoff H asked who had played with CDNs and only got one or two hands.
I know we use the term 'play' fairly loosely in the tech community but I'd like to make it clear we don't see this as 'playing' at CityLink. We're shifting serious chunks of bandwidth for a number of local players who see this as pretty important. I think that a number of the readers of this list may need to think about how to optimise their traffic to minimise costs as music and video usage of the net expands.
Yep - this was highlighted in the recent InternetNZ report on peering. That local traffic rates (as opposed to national or international only rates) were needed if rich media was no to be stiffled within NZ. Dean Andy Linton wrote:
Dean Pemberton wrote:
At the conference Geoff H asked who had played with CDNs and only got one or two hands.
I know we use the term 'play' fairly loosely in the tech community but I'd like to make it clear we don't see this as 'playing' at CityLink. We're shifting serious chunks of bandwidth for a number of local players who see this as pretty important.
I think that a number of the readers of this list may need to think about how to optimise their traffic to minimise costs as music and video usage of the net expands.
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On 27/01/2008, at 2:23 PM, Dean Pemberton wrote:
Yep - this was highlighted in the recent InternetNZ report on peering.
That local traffic rates (as opposed to national or international only rates) were needed if rich media was no to be stiffled within NZ.
Certainly good (public/private, paid/free) peering, combined with application-layer multicast can be a good solution for avoiding the transport and handover of large volumes of streaming traffic. A basic inter-provider CDN can be achieved with appropriate network traffic routing, and suitably placed service boxes. The service boxes can perform a stream forwarding and/or splitting function so that single copies of streams can be transported to a location close to the eyeballs, then split out. Last time I looked, much of the R2 stuff was done using Windows Media servers, which can do this sort of thing for live traffic. -- rik
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
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