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How to Analyze CDNs for Live Streaming 23 February 2021
Why CDN is Important CDN (Content Delivery Network) plays a major role in streaming industries. As the need for online video streaming grows year after year, the volume of delivery for these videos is greater and challenging than ever before. How do They Work? To understand the functionalities of CDN we have to understand the …
Limelight eager to get its share of traffic in multi-CDN market 25 May 2017
Various CDN providers are used by OTT Platform providers as a way to improve global latency and service up-time. Video providers will allocate certain amounts of traffic to each CDN player in a multi-CDN approach. Rest of the traffic will be based on real-time performance which means the best performing CDN gets more traffic compared …
Buffering Is the Biggest Frustration for Video Streamers 21 December 2016
According to a new study by Limelight, if an online video buffers more than three times, 78% of the audience clicks away. Since there is a problem serving regular video, Virtual reality and 4K will have to wait some more. The other problem online streamers reported to have is poor quality of video, then the lack …
Limelight says OTT services are surging in popularity 19 July 2016
According to its latest State of Online Video report, 38.4 percent of those surveyed subscribe to 1 service, 18.8 percent subscribe to 2, and over 10 percent subscribe to 3 or more. Only 31.2 percent don’t have any OTT subscriptions. Compare those numbers to the May 2015, when 36.9 percent subscribed to 1 service, 14.0 …
