CDNs in SA are boosting Internet content delivery

How will Neotel CDN platform help anyone?? I'm yet to meet a Neotel residential consumer.
 
*sigh* I took the time to pm rpm about Akamai and the easy & cheap access Rackspace gives us on the most popular CDN ever, yet a load of bull comes through. Do you even realize WHO uses Akamai??

Most of the local ISP's _do not have international based CDN's_ which renders almost the entire article useless IMO. People who had to move their servers to Germany due to the huge bandwidth cost (and because half their content were consumed by international visitors... YouTube clone site almost, I forgot it's name) can now just use Akamai and deliver content cheaply while keeping a local presence... but no... focus on local ISP's because the world is just as big as the borders of South Africa are wide huh?
 
Necksy said:
How will Neotel CDN platform help anyone?? I'm yet to meet a Neotel residential consumer.
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It will depend on whether Neotel makes it available to their peering partners - if they do, you may benefit as an ADSL subscriber etc.
 
AcidRaZor said:
Do you even realize WHO uses Akamai??
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Akamai are certainly the largest and the first of the global CDNs, so it is a bit odd not to include them. About 20% of HTTP traffic (they claim) hits their servers. And yes, they certainly are the biggest file (e.g. OS update) distributor for MS, Apple etc. Of course, not Google, since Google has its own global transport network (more or less). Akamai is not particularly interesting in some senses, since they simply drop their servers down in big ISPs globally where they think they'll be useful - not much of a play for the ISPs themselves. No matter where you are on a South African network, you're going to hit an Akamai server locally via peering or transit because that's what Akamai wants to happen. For SA users, it saves international bandwidth, but that's a side effect.

However, Akamai has been losing market share to about four or five challengers who offer newer and smarter services, including BitGravity, Limelight and CDNetworks. Maybe mybb wants to have a look at each of these, since they each have particular strengths.
 
Necksy said:
How will Neotel CDN platform help anyone?? I'm yet to meet a Neotel residential consumer.
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@rpm: How about a poll on this? I had Neotell for a few days before I realised it was a waste of money, time and effort...
 
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Vodacom would not divulge their plans when it comes to CDNs, but did say that it has “an important role to play in the delivery of Internet services.”
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Antonf won't divulge his plans when it comes to creating an additional income, but did say that it has "an important role to play in the payment of his bills."

That must rate as the sheetest comment so far in 2011!
 
AcidRaZor said:
*sigh* I took the time to pm rpm about Akamai and the easy & cheap access Rackspace gives us on the most popular CDN ever, yet a load of bull comes through. Do you even realize WHO uses Akamai??

Most of the local ISP's _do not have international based CDN's_ which renders almost the entire article useless IMO. People who had to move their servers to Germany due to the huge bandwidth cost (and because half their content were consumed by international visitors... YouTube clone site almost, I forgot it's name) can now just use Akamai and deliver content cheaply while keeping a local presence... but no... focus on local ISP's because the world is just as big as the borders of South Africa are wide huh?
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I tried out Rackspace's new Akamai offering, and it does use the local POP. However, their offering in comparison to other CDNs is pretty pathetic. They have no features, and still lack basic CNAME support (although that's meant to be added Q2 this year - still a while off though). Also, as ads mentioned, Akamai has been losing market share, mainly due to their lack of interest in bringing their services to a broader market (Akamai pulled their deal with VPS.net when they used it for mass market. i.e. good prices) - but this Rackspace deal may help.

Hopefully a service like Amazon's Cloudfront will get a local POP soon, because so far its offered excellent service. And what happened with the Limelight deal and Business Connexion? I haven't seen any local peering on that.

I just hope we see even more CDNs gaining a local presence. It will finally allow for bandwidth intensive sites to provide fast access for local users.
 
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