Akamai Goes It Alone for HTTP Flash Streaming
Posted: September 30, 2009
By: contentinople.com
Akamai Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) is rolling out a new platform for delivery of high-definition (HD) video delivered via Adobe Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: ADBE)’s Flash, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)’s Silverlight, and the Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone, based on its global network of HTTP edge servers.
The implementation of the Akamai HD Network will allow the company to serve and cache video assets closer to the end user, because it depends on 50,000 or so edge servers that the company has deployed in ISP networks around the world……[read entire story]
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