Updated List Of Carriers and Telcos Entering The CDN Market
There's been a lot of changes in the CDN industry in the past few quarters with many carriers and telcos entering the market, mostly via partnerships with other CDNs. Here's an updated list of CDNs in the market, broken down between pure-play CDNs versus non pure-play vendors like carriers and telcos. (To make the list easier to find on my blog, all you have to do is go to www.cdnlist.com for the latest update)
Non Pure-Play CDNs
- AT&T
- Broadmedia
- BT (will launch by year's end)
- Deutsche Telekom (partnered with EdgeCast)
- Global Crossing (reselling Limelight and EdgeCast)
- Internap (acquired VitalStream)
- Level 3 (acquired CDN assets of SAVVIS, acquired Servecast)
- NaviSite (reselling EdgeCast)
- NTT Communications
- Pacnet (partnered with Internap)
- PCCW
- Reliance Globalcom (partnered with Internap)
- Tata Communications (partnered and invested in BitGravity)
- TeliaSonera (will launch in April)
Pure-Play CDNs
- Accelia
- Abacast
- Advection.net
- Akamai
- Amazon Web Services
- BitGravity
- BitTorrent
- CacheFly
- ChinaCache
- CDNetworks
- Cotendo
- Conviva
- Digital Fountain (acquired by Qualcomm 2/09)
- EdgeCast
- EdgeStream
- Grid Networks (merged with GMS 4/09)
- Highwinds
- Itiva
- Limelight Networks
- Mirror Image
- Move Networks
- Pando Networks
- Panther Express (acquired by CDNetworks 2/09)
- PEER1
- Real Broadcast Network
- Technicolor
- Velocix
- Voxel.net
- Vusion
Before anyone starts saying it's not fair to put all these folks on a list, please read my disclaimer in my last CDN post which explains many of the differences between the CDN vendors in the market.