CDNs & P2P: Is Hybrid Content Delivery the Future or Just Hype?
P2P is making headlines these days for all the right reasons. Once the bane of the media world, P2P is emerging as a critical enabling technology of a video-centric Internet.
Companies are increasingly looking at Peer-Assisted content delivery to leverage the inherent cost and scaling efficiencies, but what about the traditional CDNs? What role does P2P play in their future? Akamai and Verisign have led a consolidation trend with P2P acquisitions and others plan to bring hybrid offerings to market as well. A panel of leading CDNs gave their take on where they think P2P is headed and what it will mean for content owners.
Moderator
Yaron Samid, Co-Founder and CMO, Pando Networks
David Frigeri, VP & GM Content Delivery, Internap
John Dillon, CMO, CacheLogic
Stephen Trainor, VP, Strategy, Content Markets Group, Level 3
Todd Johnson, SVP, Worldwide Marketing, VeriSign
Travis Kalanick, Senior Director, Engineering, Akamai
Michelle Maher is an Associate Producer at ScribeMedia.Org. She has a particular fondness for penguins.
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