Posts Tagged ‘limelight’

Amazon’s CloudFront Could Storm Rival CDNs

Stacey Higginbotham | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | 5:31 AM PT | 20 comments

Today Amazon Web Services launched the beta version of its content delivery network service called CloudFront. This is a good move for Amazon, and something that may put the hurt on fellow CDNs such as Limelight and Akamai. Continue »

FastSoft Tweaks TCP to Speed the Internet

Om Malik | Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | 2:11 PM PT | 12 comments

FastSoft, a Pasadena, Calif.-based startup with $4.3 million in funding from Miramar Venture Partners and Caltech, has developed a device that sits between a router and the Internet (or any other wide area network) and ensures the faster, smoother delivery of data — without using an expensive content delivery network. Continue »

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