CDN DRM for Limelight

CDN DRM for LimelightCDN DRM (digital rights management) is becoming more important for companies seeking a high performance content delivery network solution. This is largely being driven by the increased popularity of online video, thanks to services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and YouTube, and the delivery of copyrighted footage across these websites.

It is particularly important for companies seeking to deliver protected copyrighted high definition video files to use a CDN DRM services for two key reasons. The first is because content delivery networks are ideal for delivering large data files, such as HD video, across the world thanks to their structure. Content delivery networks store identical copies of data across world on different points of presence (PoPs), meaning that when end users request a file (in this case, a protected video file), they are routed to the server closest to them, reducing latency and increasing bandwidth. The second reason is that CDN providers that offer CDN DRM services for video are able to encrypt content, helping to eliminate piracy and unauthorised content use.

CDN DRM Benefits

The latest CDN providers to offer CDN DRM services is Limelight Networks, one of the world’s leading CDN providers. They have implemented technology to encode video files for delivery across their video on demand services.

“Limelight’s Multidevice Media Delivery (MMD) On-Demand (OD) is trusted by some of the world’s leading content distributors,” said Steve Miller-Jones, senior director of product management at Limelight. “MMD OD simplifies the creation and distribution of video-on-demand content by automatically transmuxing MP4 files into streaming media formats. The addition of Multi-DRM On the Fly capabilities to MMD OD makes it easier to secure content without worrying about which browser, device or platform is being used. Limelight continues to focus on helping customers monetise their video content by simplifying the management of DRM protected content and delivering the lowest video rebuffer rates in the industry.”