Global Content Delivery with Limelight and Tencent
Global content delivery is big business thanks to the ever increasing number of people around the word gaining access to the internet. This is especially true in the developing world, such as Africa and Latin America, where huge numbers of people are accessing the internet via mobile devices across high latency, low bandwidth mobile networks.
Because of this, global content delivery network services have become increasingly popular as companies seek to exploit the high performance of CDNs to deliver their data to end users around the globe.
Global Content Delivery Partnerships
Increasingly, we are seeing content delivery companies working together in order to expand and provide global content delivery services. The latest companies to work together are Limelight Networks, one of the world’s most trusted CDN providers, and Tencent. Under the deal, Limelight will offer its China customers CDN services via Tencent, while Tencent will offer Limelight CDN services to their customers throughout North America and other global markets.
“Partnering with Limelight is one example of how Tencent Cloud is expanding its services and capabilities to meet the rapidly growing global demand for high-performance cloud services,” said Carlos Morell, Vice President, Tencent Cloud International. “For global companies that want to operate in China as well as Chinese companies that want to go global, Tencent Cloud makes it easy to enable and enhance operations and extend existing IT infrastructure to a more powerful, reliable and intelligent platform.”
“Limelight is one of the largest global content delivery networks in the world, and this agreement will further extend our reach into China. The quality, bandwidth, reach and security of our global private network delivers high-quality digital experiences that audiences demand worldwide,” said Ersin Galioglu, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Limelight Networks. “China is experiencing digital adoption at an accelerating pace, and there’s a unique opportunity for global businesses to access the Chinese market and for Chinese businesses to have access to global consumers. Together, Limelight and Tencent will work to address this opportunity. This collaboration brings unique expertise and capabilities to businesses worldwide that want and need to deliver digital content from anywhere, to anyone, in milliseconds.”