Content delivery network acquisition is becoming an increasingly common sight in the CDN industry. As new and exciting content delivery network providers enter the market and grow, existing content delivery networks (or large companies looking to enter the market themselves) have been snapping them up in order to broaden their global footprint or simply gobble up the competition.
Now, the latest content delivery network acquisition comes courtesy of Vecima,
CDN growth is happening at an immense rate. As more and more people access the internet across the globe, content delivery network providers must ensure they keep up, accelerating their CDN growth by developing new points of presence at strategic traffic hotspots around the world.
It is because of this need for growth that content delivery network provider Econet Media, has pledged to expand its CDN growth in Africa.
P2P CDN networks can provide a great means for offering end users high speed access to websites from around the world. By leveraging the power of end user machines – those people currently accessing a specific website – a P2P CDN can scale dynamically as more and more people access specific website, creating a great method for high traffic sites to avoid suffering outages at peak time.
