Updated List Of Vendors In The Content Delivery Ecosystem

It's been about a year since I updated my list of carriers, telcos and pure-play companies in the CDN business and in that time, there have been quite a few changes in the market. I've decided to add to this list transparent caching providers and other vendors who are tied into the content delivery ecosystem for video. I've also added to the list a lot of providers who have long since been acquired and noted who they were acquired by. I think it is important that there is a running history of the vendors that helped shape the content delivery business since its inception nearly 15 years ago.

While content delivery is a generic term and probably includes hundreds of vendors if you include cloud based services, co-location companies, regional service providers, P2P networks and mobile platforms, I've tried to keep this list to vendors specifically tied to the delivery of video, be it as a service or platform for both On-net and Off-net applications. (To make the list easier to find on my blog, all you have to do is go to www.cdnlist.com for the latest update.)

Pure-Play CDNs

• Accelia
• Activate.net (acquired by CMGI Oct. 1999)
  
• Abacast (has exited the video delivery business, focuses on radio streaming)
• Advection.net
• Akamai
• Amazon CloudFront
• BitGravity (acquired by Tata Communications Jan. 2011)
• Broadcast.com (acquired by Yahoo! April 1999)
• BitTorrent
• CacheFly
• Cable & Wireless (withdrew from the U.S. Nov. 2002, sold U.S. company to SAVVIS)
• ChinaCache
• Cidera (went out of buisness Jan. 2001, formerly named SkyCache)
• CDNetworks (exited the video delivery business in 2010, focuses on web acceleration)
• Cotendo (acquired by Akamai Nov. 2011)
• Digital Fountain (acquired by Qualcomm Feb. 2009)
• Digital Island (acquired by Cable & Wireless May 2001)
• EdgeCast
• EdgeStream (not sure if they are actually in business)
• e-media (acquired by Streaming Media Corp. in 2002)
• Fastweb
• Globix (went chapter 11 Jan. 2002, hosting business sold to QTS Oct. 2006)
• Grid Networks (merged with GMS April 2009)
• Highwinds
• iBEAM (went chapter 11 Oct. 2011, assets acquired by Williams Communications)
• INTERVU (acquired by Akamai Feb. 2000)
• Itiva (went out of business sometime in 2010)
• itv.net (acquired by PopCast in 1999)
  
• Limelight Networks
• Microcast (went out of business sometime in 2000)
• Mirror Image
• NetDNA
• Panther Express (acquired by CDNetworks Feb. 2009)
• PEER1
• Prime Networks 
• Real Broadcast Network (closed down by RealNetworks Q1 2010)
• Sandpiper (acquired by Cable & Wireless Oct. 1999)
• SAVVIS (exited the space by selling CDN assets to Level 3 Dec. 2006)
• Speedera (acquired by Akamai March 2005)
• st3 (went out of business Jan. 2002)
• Streaming Media Corp. (changed name to Nine Systems, acquired by Akamai Sept. 2006)
• StreamPipe (acquired by Ten-TV Feb. 2002, then re-sold to Loudeye Nov. 2002)
  
• SyncCast (acquired by Technicolor April 2007)
• Technicolor 
• Velocix (acquired by Alcaltel-Lucent July 2009, formerly called CacheLogic)
• VitalStream (acquired by Internap Feb. 2007)
• Voxel.net (acquired by Internap Jan. 2012)
• Vusion (went out of business May 2009)
• Windows Azure
• WorldStream (went out of business Aug. 2001)
  

Non Pure-Play CDNs (telcos/carriers)

• AT&T
• Bharti Airtel (partnered with Limelight)
• Bell (working with Limelight)
• Broadmedia
• BT 
• Deutsche Telekom (partnered with EdgeCast)
• Global Crossing (reselling Limelight and EdgeCast)
• Internap (acquired VitalStream)
• Interoute (acquired Virtue Media Services)
• Korea Telecom
• KPN
• Level 3 (acquired CDN assets of SAVVIS, acquired Servecast)
• NaviSite (reselling EdgeCast)
• Ngenix
• NTT Communications
• Orange France Telecom
• Pacnet (licensed EdgeCast)
  
• PCCW
• Reliance Globalcom (partnered with Internap)
• SingTel
• Tata Communications (acquired BitGravity)
• TeliaSonera
• Telecom Argentina
• Telecom Italia Sparkle (reselling CDNetworks)
• Telecom New Zealand (AAPT) (partnered with EdgeCast) 
• Telefonica
• Telstra
• Telus (reselling EdgeCast)  
• Verizon

CDN Management Platforms/Transparent Caching Platforms:

• 3Crowd
• Adero (acquired by Intokmi Dec. 2000)
• Aflexi
• Alcatel-Lucent
• Ankeena (acquired by Juniper April 2010)
• Bandcon (acquired by Highwinds July 2010)
• Blackwave (acquired by Juniper Oct. 2010)
• Burst.com (shut down in 2002, turned focus to enforcing patents against Micrososft, Apple, Real)
• Blue Coat (formerly named CacheFlow)
• Broadpeak
• BTI Systems
• Cisco
• Conviva
• DigitalPipe (went out of business sometime in 2001)
• Ericsson
• eScene Networks (acquired by Intokmi June 2001)
• Fabrix.tv
• FastForward Networks (acquired by Intokmi Sept. 2000)
• Huawei
• Intokmi (acquired by Yahoo! Dec. 2002)
• Jet-Stream
• Juniper
• Move Networks (put assets up for sale June 2010)
• Octoshape
• Oversi
• PeerApp
• Verivue
• Volera (spinoff by Novell in 2001, closed down in 2003)

If you think a current or former company should be added to my list, I'm happy to hear suggestions in the comments section below.

Comments

[Sundhar Varun]

Hello Dan,

Really exhaustive list, A few companies that I thought can be grouped under 'Transparent Caching/CDN MGMT Platform'

BYTEMOBILE, DROPLET TECHNOLOGIES, OPANGA, ORTIVA WIRELESS, BRIDGEWAVE COMMUNICATIONS.

Also, assets of BLACKWAVE - Advanced Video Delivery Technology; were acquired by Juniper in 2010.

sundhar

[Dan Rayburn]

Hi Sundhar, thanks, will add Blackwave to the list. The others I have not added as for now, I am not including mobile video platforms on this list. Thanks.

[Ryan M.]

NetDNA and its contract-less subsidiary MaxCDN seem to be a larger and more global player than several others on this list.

[Sunil Mudholkar]

Hi Dan, I would add a few more to the list of caching platforms:

Motorola M3
Edgeware

- Sunil

[Taeha Park]

Hi Dan,

Korea Telecom provides its CDN service (called ICS) by partnering with Solution Box since 2006. Please change the entry as:

- Korea Telecom (partnered with Solution Box)

The related article can be found at the following:
http://www.businesscloudnews.com/cdn/386-solution-box-introduces-content-delivery-cloud-.html

Thanks

taeha
Solution Box Inc.

[Jennifer]

I suggest that you add TotalStream to your list. TotalStream operates a Content Distribution Network (CDN) for video streaming. TotalStreams focus is large-scale, high-performance video streaming. TotalStream has provided IPTV streaming for four years. Last month TotalStream delivered over 1 million movie downloads, and also delivered over 1,000,000 viewing
hours for our IPTV system operators. For more information visit www.totalstream.net