Updated List Of Carriers, Telcos and Pure-Play Companies In The CDN Business
With all the telcos and carriers that continue to enter the CDN business, I keep a running list on my blog that I update a couple of times a year. I also include the companies who I feel are non-pure play CDNs and have also indicated which CDNs have been acquired or shut down and which CDNs the telcos and carriers are partnering with. The list may not be 100% complete, but it’s a good starting point for who’s in the market.
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
- Alcatel-Lucent (acquired Velocix 7/09)
- AT&T
- Bharti Airtel (partnered with Limelight)
- Bell (working with Limelight)
- Broadmedia
- BT (was supposed to have launched in 2009)
- Deutsche Telekom (partnered with EdgeCast)
- Global Crossing (reselling Limelight and EdgeCast)
- Internap (acquired VitalStream)
- Interoute (acquired Virtue Media Services)
- KPN
- Level 3 (acquired CDN assets of SAVVIS, acquired Servecast)
- NaviSite (reselling EdgeCast)
- NTT Communications
- Pacnet (partnered with Internap)
- PCCW
- Reliance Globalcom (partnered with Internap)
- SingTel
- Tata Communications (partnered and invested in BitGravity)
- TeliaSonera
- Telecom Italia Sparkle (reselling CDNetworks)
- Telecom New Zealand (AAPT) (partnered with EdgeCast)
- Telstra (launched Q2 2010)
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
- Panther Express (acquired by CDNetworks 2/09)
- PEER1
- Real Broadcast Network
- Technicolor
- Velocix (acquired by Alcaltel-Lucent 7/09)
- Voxel.net
- Vusion (went out of business 5/09)
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.