Comments on: 3Crowd Launches CrowdDirector, Signs Break Media & Rev3

By: Conviva Raises $15M to Improve Live Video Streaming

Conviva Raises $15M to Improve Live Video Streaming — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:13:35 +0000

[...] multiple CDNs; Bitgravity co-founder Barrett Lyon has introduced a competitor called 3Crowd that is seeking to solve the same problem. 3Crowd has raised a total of $6.6 million since being founded late last [...]

By: Hal Bentson

Hal Bentson — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:35:31 +0000

It kindof sounds like you work for a CDN, maybe one of the larger ones? Anyway, I would like to know if any CDN is refusing to accept money from a customer out of fear they can’t compete or evolve. If they are public companies wouldn’t their shareholders may have issue with that. From what I have learned, 3Crowd does do real time monitoring. I know a few folks over at break and they’re not using it as a method to mitigate two CDNs but their building their own CDN and are merging it together with an existing CDN. So far, I’m using it to load balance several EC2 machines with a couple linodes and it’s working great and very inexpensive. I don’t think they are stopping with load balancing because some of the sales guys that I talked with are discussing larger plans with some sort of botnet software. They wouldn’t tell me more but it was pretty interesting. Anyway, it’s a cheap solution to buying and globally distributing load balancers all over the planet. My company is happy so far, and excited about the future. Maybe I shouldn’t be commenting, but this is cool and hard for the non-geek to get how cool it is.

By: Industry

Industry — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:37:24 +0000

If you think for a second Akamai, Limelight and the like are going to allowed themselves to get middled by 3Crowd think again. CDNs are already at ridiculously low rates why would I need to pay the 3Crowd tax (CDNs + 3Crowd) to save more money?

Does 3Crowd even have any controls to monitor QoS and ensure that the optimal route is chosen?

This is a lame, tired repetitive idea that others have tried. It always fails. Hope they can pivot quickly.

By: Hal Bentson

Hal Bentson — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:17:22 +0000

Pretty interesting. I know this may be hard for Joe User to understand, but if I were in the strategy group for a large CDN, I would have to think about this as both a challenge and an opportunity. If the CDN can outperform others or is cheaper, in a region, then they would be good, up till the ‘no CDN’ part. If they are the big Gorilla, then good bye.