What is CDN? Learn All About Content Delivery Network

Expanded CDN services are great for content delivery network customers. That’s because when a content delivery network provider expands their catalogue of services, CDN customers benefit from having their data delivered more quickly and efficiently to end users, while also providing methods for accelerating different kinds of data.

Now. the latest content delivery network provider to offer their customers expanded CDN services is Ericsson. Ericsson is investing in their Unified Delivery Network to help meet the evolving needs of content delivery – specifically to meet future demands for video delivery online and across mobile networks. Currently, 50% of all traffic on mobile networks and that is expected to rise to 75% by 2022. Given the high latency and low bandwidth nature of mobile networks, expanded CDN services that accelerate data across these networks are more important than ever.

Expanded CDN Benefits

As part of the expansion, the Ericsson Unified Delivery Network will be adding shard CDN services as part of their offering, enabling service providers the advantages of a private CDN technology without the upfront software and operational costs.

“What the Ericsson team has accomplished in the last two years has been quite impressive to watch,“ says Dan Rayburn, streaming media expert and Principal Analyst at Frost and Sullivan. “The growth of online video requires service providers to have more capacity and functionality as video from traditional pay TV networks shifts quickly to streaming. The success of UDN and the partnership ERICSSON has with service providers will be a key pillar in delivering streaming video at scale.”

Marcus Bergstrom, Vice President and General Manager of UDN, Ericsson, says: “We’ve invested directly in the UDN platform in partnership with mobile and fixed broadband service providers and our network is live and carrying traffic all over the world. We will continue to listen carefully to our partners and customers as we prepare to launch new edge compute applications this year with new technology partners to unlock the true potential of edge networks.”