Not All "HTTP Streaming" Is Created Equal, Nor Is It Always Actually Streaming

Tim Siglin has an excellent article over on StreamingMedia.com today that explains the differences between delivering video via HTTP from a web server and delivering video via HTTP from a streaming server. And he's dead on accurate when he writes how confusing it can be for content owners when CDNs use the term "streaming" to define video delivered via HTTP. In most cases, I think some CDNs are trying to say that their HTTP delivery services can mimic some of the functionality that streaming provides, but they do a poor job of explaining the differences to the customer. Tim's article gives a clear explanation of the differences between the two and how it relates to the Windows Media and Flash platforms.

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[shaun]

so i know this isn't an investment site really, but check this out, LLNW has about 2.20$ a share in cash, if you stip out pending legal charges with AKAM, still about 1.70$ in cash, so with shares at 2.25$ that values core LLNW at only .50$ a share, with 83M shares outstanding thats about 40M$ for core LLNW, so even if they only do the 100M$ in revenue they did in 2007 with zero growth and you cut out 50% they said is unaffected by AKAM lawsuit, thats like less than 1x sales...... can you say acquisition?!