Comments on: OnApp launches CDN.net, tapping spare capacity of federated service providers http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/onapp-launches-cdn-net-tapping-spare-capacity-of-federated-service-providers/ Thu, 23 May 2013 13:32:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ditlev Bredahl http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/onapp-launches-cdn-net-tapping-spare-capacity-of-federated-service-providers/#comment-1319992 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:45:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619896#comment-1319992 CDN.net is based on OnApp’s federated marketplace of infrastructure. It’s actually fairly large, ranging across http://onapp.com/cdn/locations/ … more than 40 countries. CDN.net is not currently using all the locations though in the standard offering, but clients can request locations and CDN.net will find them in the OnApp federation.

OnApp has more than 2000 installs world wide, and pop’s pretty much in any location you can imagine, so if there isn’t a pop currently it typically wouldn’t be too hard to get one lit up…

]]> By: August http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/onapp-launches-cdn-net-tapping-spare-capacity-of-federated-service-providers/#comment-1319944 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:43:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619896#comment-1319944 150+ PoPs but in less locations. I still don’t understand how that is wider range from a global standpoint. I can place 200 PoPs in NY (not that it would make sense to do so), but the range (if you mean reach) is still not as wide as a network that has only 50 PoPs in 50 different cities around the world.

]]> By: David Meyer http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/onapp-launches-cdn-net-tapping-spare-capacity-of-federated-service-providers/#comment-1319938 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:37:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619896#comment-1319938 CDN.net has access to 150+ PoPs, by virtue of tapping OnApp’s CDN federation. Although it’s launched with 30 locations, from my understanding you can request others.

]]> By: August http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/onapp-launches-cdn-net-tapping-spare-capacity-of-federated-service-providers/#comment-1319936 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:31:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619896#comment-1319936 Just out of curiosity, what exactly do you mean by ‘more wide ranging?’ It looks like CDNetworks has over 140 PoPs and is in over 80 cities, but CDN.net’s network is only in 25 different locations. Not to mention the extensive reach that CDNetworks has into China, where CDN.net only has a presence in HK.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean by ‘range,’ can you please explain.

Thanks

]]> By: David Mytton http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/onapp-launches-cdn-net-tapping-spare-capacity-of-federated-service-providers/#comment-1319920 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:27:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619896#comment-1319920 This is a clever way to compete with the largest CDN providers like Akamai who have the largest number of PoPs without having to have massive upfront capital. It’s the story of how AWS spawned out of spare capacity for Amazon Retail websites. CDN.net can act as broker for all their customers to maximise capacity utilisation and provide ad-hoc coverage of locations not already in the network.

]]> By: Ditlev Bredahl http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/onapp-launches-cdn-net-tapping-spare-capacity-of-federated-service-providers/#comment-1319583 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:02:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619896#comment-1319583 why would it be a joke?

]]> By: Johny Bambus http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/onapp-launches-cdn-net-tapping-spare-capacity-of-federated-service-providers/#comment-1319551 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:28:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619896#comment-1319551 CDN.net is joke or real service?

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