Dan Rayburn

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    • Thu Jul 31st 13:13 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Same CDN Major Players Getting All Live Business
      A lot of live European events are streamed by Level 3. Not all, but many of them. That's part of the reason they acquired European based Servecast.

      This article is talking specifically to events that are streamed live. So Hulu, ABC and HBO would not be fair comparisons as that content is all on-demand.

      The point of the article is that while many new CDNs have entered the market and many of them are focusing on live, saying that can do it cheaper and scale better than Akamai or Limelight, to date, they are not winning any of that business. Trying to point out the fact that it's not as easy to scale a network for live content as some think it is. Don't now the size of the market for medium events. Have not seen any data on that.

      I am not recommending stock of any company. I have never bought, sold or traded stock in any public company ever. I have no vested interest in any public company's stock.
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    • Thu Jul 31st 11:27 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Same CDN Major Players Getting All Live Business
      I think you need to learn your facts.

      JStream is not doing any large events on the scale that Limelight or Akamai is doing. JStream does not have any global reach, no global network and says on their website they can only support 30,000 live streams at once. They are based only in Japan. Akamai's network is global and is supporting well over a million live streams in any given month. Your opinion may be one thing, but facts are facts.

      You say there are "large scale streaming events outside the U.S.". Ok, then list them. Don't just say they are events, name them. There are a few, but show me a list of events in Asia that are as big as the ones we have in the U.S. and happen as often.

      I think it's a bit weak to continue to read comments by people who champion for a particular vendor, without saying if they work for that vendor or even including their real name. Each comment always seems to include a reference to CDNetworks. I wonder why.
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    • Wed Jul 30th 22:20 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Akamai: Broadband Consumption Clouds Outlook
      I don't buy the broadband speed excuse. The average broadband speed in the U.S. is 3MB, which is plenty to be able to watch a 500Kbps video, which is about what the average content is encoded at. Faster broadband does not equate into more consumption.
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    • Wed Jul 30th 11:56 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Netflix Player by Roku Has Potential to Really Impact the Market
      If I could have said who told me the number, then I would have put it in the post. I would not have published it if it did not come from someone who would know.
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    • Mon Jul 21st 18:47 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Amazon's AWS Won't Compete With CDNs
      That is a short list. For a detailed list of CDNs globally, including P2P based solutions, there are over 60 providers. You can see the list at www.cdnlist.com
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    • Mon Jul 21st 12:34 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Amazon's AWS Won't Compete With CDNs
      If you don't know what the term "CDN" means, then this article is not for you.

      Disclosure: I am not working for any CDN and have disclosed this on my blog numerous times. I could not make it any clearer. See my post entitled:

      Investors: I Don't Work For Any Content Delivery Network (CDN)
      blog.streamingmedia.co...

      This article is about Amazon and content delivery. I don't work for Amazon and I don't work for any CDN. You can try to "imply" a conflict exists, but readers should only be interested in facts.
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    • Tue Jul 8th 11:38 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      U.S. Is Neither Lagging Nor Stalling in Broadband Adoption
      If I remember correctly, the last report I saw said that the "average" broadband speed in the U.S. was 3Mbps.
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    • Fri May 30th 16:42 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Five Key Quotes from Limelight's Conference Call
      EdgeStream is a new CDN, less than a year old, who is just starting out in the market. While customers seem to say good things about them, EdgeCast won't even do $15 million dollars in revenue this year. Limelight is projected to do over $150 million and Akamai's doing at least $400 million in CDN revenue in 2008. That means EdgeCast is doing less than 2% of Akamai's CDN only revenue. You have to keep things in perspective..

      EdgeCast is not trying to be Akamai or Limelight and while all three companies offer one product that is similar, CDN, the rest of what all the three companies do are very different. The focus is different, the markets they serve are different, the capacity they have is different, the solutions outside of delivering bits is different.... you can only compare the products and services that are similar, not the companies as a whole.
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    • Wed May 14th 10:39 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      AT&T Builds Out CDN, Prepares to Push Into the Market
      AT&T said that over time, they will rely less on partners they work with now for delivery and do more of it themselves. That does not happen over night, but slowly more and more delivery will be done by AT&T as they turn up the capacity of the network.
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    • Tue May 13th 11:56 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      AT&T Builds Out CDN, Prepares to Push Into the Market
      Sorry, I have no insight into SOAP or any expertise in that matter.
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    • Tue Apr 15th 16:05 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      When it Comes to CDN Patents, Level 3 Is the One to Watch
      I can't give details on who the customers are and the revenue. When companies give me that info, it is under the assurance that I won't give it out to others until they give me permission or the info becomes public in some way. If I gave out all the info I am told, no one would ever tell it to me again.
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    • Mon Apr 14th 23:52 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      When it Comes to CDN Patents, Level 3 Is the One to Watch
      Hi Scott, all depends on who the customer is, what they are buying and how many different services they are taking. I speak to some customers who could care less about buying services from the ones who own the pipes. But then other customers tell me for their needs, it's important to them. It is very hard to speak in general terms about the market for these services when the type of services taken, volume of traffic, geographic reach and the kind of industry the company is from all factor into exactly what each customer specifically needs.
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    • Mon Apr 14th 17:42 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Akamai: As It Turns Out, Not Immune to a Downturn
      Akamai Confirms No Outage Of Their Web Acceleration Network
      blog.streamingmedia.co...
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    • Tue Apr 8th 23:34 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Akamai Is Extremely Customer Focused
      I paid for my own plane ticket but yes, Akamai served lunch. In the future I will be saying what I see about Akamai and any other company, good or bad. I don't own any stock in any of these companies so I have no vested interest.
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    • Wed Apr 2nd 16:44 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      "Streaming Content to Generate $70 Billion By 2013" - An Unrealistic Claim
      Yes, many satellite subscribers are, but they are not buying that content online. So for the report to give iTunes and satellite radio as examples of consumer willing to pay for content, satellite is not relevant when most of those consuming it online are not paying for it and get it as part of their satellite subscription package.
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