Comments on: Akamai Bags P2P Tech Provider RedSwoosh for $15 Million

By: Bilal Hameed

Bilal Hameed — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:35:43 +0000

It also tends to prove that AKAMAI´s timing is excellent, they have just landed a partnership with CBS to become the back bone of their content distribution network. I bet this acquisition could come in handy in cases, where you might not need to stream content.

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:20:00 +0000

This news tends to prove that even giants like Akamai with strong CDN networks cannot compete against p2p delivery networks. So if you cannot beat them, join (buy…) them !

To another extent, this news is very good and confirm the efforts from my company to evangelize P2P since the very beginning and provide P2P Content Delivery solutions to the top TV channels in France: peer-to-peer is now seriously considered as the main architecture when companies develop their online video distribution portal, while client-servers architecture are deprecated.

And of course it is not limited to video contents: you can use p2p content delivery networks for music, pictures, work documents, zip archives, programs …

Sebastien
http://www.1-click.com

By: Startup Meme » CBS Finally Launches Its Distribution Network, Guns Youtube

Startup Meme » CBS Finally Launches Its Distribution Network, Guns Youtube — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:48:45 +0000

[...] in turn will accelerate adoption of their services in general. Akamai, that has just closed the acquisition of RedSwoosh, a P2P technology developer will also strongly benefit from this [...]