Dec 29, 2008 : The Planet Picks EdgeCast for CDN

📅 December 29, 2008 - IT hosting provider ThePlanet.com Internet Services (theplanet.com -> softlayer.com -> ibm.com) has selected content delivery network provider EdgeCast Networks (edgecast.com -> verizondigitalmedia.com) to provide the basis of The Planet's new hosted CDN offerings.

According to The Planet's announcement last week, EdgeCast's rich media CDN will provide a world-class platform, offering customers the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling their own CDN, letting them quickly distribute online content to end-users through a world-wide network, caching data on multiple servers and delivering content to users based on geographic location. EdgeCast's points of presence include San Jose, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney.

"Over the past year, we've received significant interest from customers who are looking for an enterprise-class, cost-effective CDN solution to more quickly deliver content to their geographically dispersed customers," The Planet complex infrastructure solutions general manager Bryce Edwards said in a statement. "For customers with complex content-driven sites, a CDN solution is absolutely critical. Through our EdgeCast partnership, customers gain immediate access to hundreds of edge servers located around the world."

Providing both time-tested Windows Media and Adobe Flash networks, and emerging Silverlight and Move networks, The Planet's live streaming CDN service is suited for broadcasting recorded content and live events on a massive scale to global audiences without "choppiness, broadcast drops and excessive buffering," according to the announcement.

As well as increasing speed, CDN also increase the number of users who can access a single web site at the same time.

As a large hosting provider, The Planet's foray into the CDN market may indicate a growth in industry interest in the CDN space. Other high-profile hosting providers have also begun integrating content delivery into their services.

In November, Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com ) launched its CloudFront public beta, a content delivery service that is integrated with its other services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, fast transfer speeds and no commitments, giving popular, yet pricey CDNs like Akamai and Limelight a run for their money.

The Planet's CDN is divided into North American and Global plans, with its North American, service starting at $400 per month for 2 terabytes and 20¢ per extra gigabyte; its Global subscription starts at $600 per month and 30¢ per GB thereafter.

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