Ken Newton

Limelight and Akamai Have No Threat by Amazon's New CloudFront Service

I agree with you, and your car analogy. All CDNs offer different prices and different content models. I sill would like to see a bake off using different media types that are diverse enough to prove what you are writing about. I think it would help show which CDN's may be charging too much for the value they bring, and which may be charging little, but with lower QOS. It would be great to find the 'sweet spot' for each of the main media types out there. Thanks for the article.

What Does Quality Online Video Look Like?

Hey, the market is changing so fast, you should look a bit deeper. First, High quality video is available from more than just the major networks. Using CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) like BitGravity, designed to distribute video, and even adjust the quality based on the bandwidth available, HD is more than 'here', it is prevalent. You can almost consider YouTube to be the 'old guard' vs. the folks out there now continuing the Internet tradition of re-invention and improvement. Look at sites like Revision3, an entire TV station on the net, creating custom content. It will all redefine how we even consider this medium...