How to Choose a Virtual CDN for Live Events
Learn more about virtual CDNs at the next Content Delivery Summit.
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Jim Brickmeier: When choosing a virtual CDN for live events, there are lots of options out there, in terms of if you have your own network versus if you don t. If you have your own network, there s there s software out there that you can use that s fully virtualized and allows you to spin up capacity as needed to support live events and spin it back down when you don t need it. I think that s the key advantage of some of the virtualized technologies and some of the orchestration capabilities of things like Kubernetes and so on, that you can be responsive to demand and try to be as cost-effective as possible.
Key CDN Challenges
Learn more about CDN challenges at the next Content Delivery Summit.
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Jason Thibeault: What are the key challenges facing CDNs? As an organization, our working groups are constantly asking this question, or what should we be working on? We are a bottom-up organization. So our board does not say, Okay, you are going to work on this. It s up to the working group chairs to ferret out those projects from their participants. It s really hand-raising, so if you re in a working group, you raise your hand and say, Hey, I have a problem with this, and that becomes a discussion. And sooner or later, 80% of the group is raising their hands as well. And that then becomes a project. So these are some of the topics that some of our working groups will probably start to zero in on.