Skytide Blog

Understanding the CDN Economics of Build vs. Buy

May 7th, 2012

StreamingMediaBlog.com’s Dan Rayburn provides some more details here about the “CDN Economics of Build vs. Buy” panel at the upcoming Content Delivery Summit in New York. Skytide’s CEO, Michael O’Donnell will be participating alongside Comcast’s Jacob Rosenberg and Jet-Stream’s Scott Landman.

There will be a lot of interesting terrain to cover including:

  • The value of building a Telco CDN compared to buying from a third party
  • What operator CDNs need to do to compete on analytics and reporting and its importance in network optimization and monetization
  • Operational considerations and challenges of the build vs. buy decision
  • The total cost  of ownership argument and architectural considerations
  • Other factors such as geography and service provider size that can impact the build vs. buy decision

 

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Skytide partners and customers clean up at IPTV awards show

March 27th, 2012

If you are judged by the company that you keep, then Skytide is in very good shape.

Some of our key partners and customers just received awards at the IPTV Industry Awards in London, honoring innovation within the fields of IPTV, OTT, Connected TV and Hybrid TV.   The awards show was the exclamation point on the IP&TV World Forum, which Skytide sponsored.  Award winners included:

Skytide partners:

  • Ericsson — Best Component or Enabler
  • Cisco — Best TV Consumer Device

Skytide customers:

  • Telstra — Best TV Service Innovation
  • BT — Best Service Growth Achievement

Congratulations to all.

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How has Akamai managed to dominate the CDN market for so long?

November 22nd, 2011

You know it’s a meaty discussion on LinkedIn Groups when it keeps going strong for 6+ months.  No shortage of opinions.  Check it out here:  How has Akamai managed to dominate the CDN market for so long?

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