Comments on: EdgeCast Ready To Take On Akamai, Limelight

By: Money Continues to Pour Into CDNs « NewTeeVee

Money Continues to Pour Into CDNs « NewTeeVee — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:00:51 +0000

[...] a Los Angeles-based CDN that launched in August, says it has raised an additional $6 million in Series B funding from current and new investors. [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:56:48 +0000

“…the cost for bandwidth remains flexible, decreasing for customers as the bandwidth use increases”. Um, that’s called tiered pricing, ever heard of it?

By: Philip

Philip — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:28:51 +0000

Not true. Akamai offers an auto upgrade option that automatically reduces the delivery costs as the traffic grows.

By: Top Posts « WordPress.com

Top Posts « WordPress.com — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:58:55 +0000

[...] EdgeCast Ready To Take On Akamai, Limelight Paying less for bandwidth to serve-up streaming media and downloadable video clips on websites could become the bait […] [...]

By: EastSide

EastSide — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:42:30 +0000

First of all, they should do some market research before claiming that “even though bandwidth prices decline at a steady rate, the CDN operators don’t pass the savings to the customers, and thus make higher profits.” This is completely false. CDN prices have been dropping steadily over the past 12 months, along with ISP transit prices. LL, Panther Express (and in limited scenarios even Akamai) all offer very aggressive pricing plans.

Additionally, Panther introduced the low cost/no commit/no contract model to the CDN world over a year ago. They already have 45 global POPs and direct relationships with 13 ISP’s, including Tier1′s such as Level3, Qwest, and Global Crossing.

I’m not knocking their technology (never heard of them until today), but I’m not sure why EdgeCast is claiming that they will “introduce a flexible bandwidth pricing model to the CDN business.” Its already here.