What is CDN? Learn All About Content Delivery Network

Affordable CDN services can be revolutionary for companies looking to accelerate their online presence and reach new customers. Content delivery networks are a excellent means of boosting your online performance while cutting costs, thanks to the fact that CDN providers have built extensive global networks to be used by many different clients, thus spreading the burden of the kind of network expansion that is required to boost the speed of content delivery.

Affordable CDN solutions are offered by a wide range of big name content delivery network providers, including CDNetworks, Akamai and Level 3. The solutions provided usually range from static delivery, for items such as large software files, to dynamic delivery, ideal for sites such as blogs and social networks. This is in addition to the increasing adoption of accelerated video delivery services

Affordable CDN Benefits

The latest company to seek the benefits of an affordable CDN is Cinesoft. Cinesoft offers over-the-top (OTT) video services to Indian customers and needed a high performance CDN for their Cinehome service. They have announced that they be leveraging the high quality Limelight Networks CDN for their content delivery needs.

“Customer support is by far the most important thing to us. Limelight is always responsive, and we know they’ll get to the root cause of any concern we have and come up with a solution quickly,” said Anil Nair, Managing Director & CEO, Cinesoft. “Plus, our customers demand a broadcast-quality experience and Limelight helps us provide high performance with low buffering rates.”

“OTT video is taking off in India and Cinesoft has a great business model with growing online traffic in its B2B and B2C businesses,” said Nigel Burmeister, vice president, global marketing at Limelight Networks. “We’ve upgraded our infrastructure and added capacity to support the diversity of use cases and to best support the local market. By deploying our CDN, Cinesoft customers are assured of a quality experience and Cinesoft benefits from Limelight’s global infrastructure and expertise.”