Updated List Of Vendors In The Content Delivery Network Business
It’s been six months since I updated my list of carriers, telcos and pure-play companies in the CDN business and in that time, there have been a couple of new entrants to the market. Here’s an updated list of companies offering CDN services in the industry, 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 6/10)
- Telus (reselling EdgeCast)
Pure-Play CDNs
- 3Crowd
- 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 (acquired Bandcon 7/10)
- Itiva
- Limelight Networks
- Mirror Image
- Panther Express (acquired by CDNetworks 2/09)
- PEER1
- Prime Networks
- Real Broadcast Network
- Technicolor (acquired SyncCast 4/07)
- 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 one of my recent posts which explains many of the differences between the CDN vendors in the market.