Nov 21, 2008 : Level 3 CDN Backs Pando Cloud

📅 November 21, 2008 - Pioneering content delivery cloud services provider Pando Networks (pando.com) a has chosen Level 3 Communications' (level3.com) content delivery network to provide caching and downloading services to support the delivery of rich media content for commercial customers.

According to the company's Thursday announcement, Level 3's caching and downloading services will enhance Pando's content delivery cloud platform, enabling users to download and stream large media files, including full-screen, high-definition video.

"Level 3's CDN technology enables us to expand our content delivery cloud service with greater reliability and quality than standalone P2P technology," Pando Networks chief executive officer Robert Levitan said in a statement. "This expansion builds out our technology platform to provide customers with a more powerful and cost effective solution to deliver online content."

Pando Networks and Level 3 have signed on to deliver HD online video for US television network NBC. Currently in beta release, NBC Direct (nbc.com/video/) lets users download high-resolution episodes of select NBC shows.

While CDN provider BitGravity (bitgravity.com -> tatacommunications.com -> bigrock.in) has demonstrated the viability of HD video delivery in technically demanding applications, recent content delivery advances have been paving the way for not only specialized content delivery, but it has also has made widespread online television delivery a reality.

Showing that there is clearly a large audience for online television, Microsoft's (microsoft.com) Silverlight powered NBCOlympics.com, which garnered more than 50 million unique visitors, 1.3 billion page views, and 70 million video streams over the course of the 17 days of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games, according to Microsoft.

Pleased with the partnership with Pando, Level 3 content markets group president Grant van Rooyen said in a statement, "The emergence of CDN assist technology reinforces the underlying need for the power and performance of our CDN services to support large-scale commercial distribution of online content."

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