Click the image above for an interactive version of the graph The FCC put out the results of a monumental study today detailing how US Internet service providers perform based on the speeds they advertise. While there is a large… Read more ›
The good news out of last month’s IPv6 day is that there were no major performance or security issues during the 24-hour worldwide test. The not-so-good news is that IPv6 traffic barely peaked above a quarter of one percent of… Read more ›
The former architect of the national broadband plan, Blair Levin, has another project up his sleeve. The goal is the same, raise broadband speeds and improve accessibility. But this time Levin has a specific audience in mind, universities. Levin and… Read more ›
Limelight Networks announced today that the Middle East Broadcasting Company is using our integrated solutions for online video publishing, site acceleration and online media delivery. MBC is the largest broadcasting group in the Middle East, and its two websites, Shahid.net and AlArabiya.net, provide on-demand… Read more ›
Netflix already reportedly accounts for more than 20% of Internet traffic during peak times in the US. And if it starts to acquire significant film rights in the pay-TV window, the streaming giant could add to that number at an… Read more ›
A large amount of Internet traffic today is conducted by a small handful of companies. Arbor Networks noted this traffic consolidation back in 2009 when it coined the term “hyper giants.” According to Arbor Networks at the time: “Out of the… Read more ›
There’s a lot of news out this week from the cable industry in conjunction with the annual Cable Show conference taking place this year in Chicago. Comcast demoed new cloud-based TV services today that are currently being trialed in Augusta… Read more ›
Limelight Networks has had a stake in the mobile media market for several years now, which means we’ve had an opportunity to collect substantial data around media consumption on mobile devices. And the shift we’ve seen over the last 12… Read more ›
It’s World IPv6 Day, and Limelight Networks is participating in the festivities with hundreds of other organizations in order to test the effectiveness of IPv6 content delivery. One of the biggest issues in the transition to IPv6 is network address… Read more ›
We’ve talked a bit about cloud gaming in the past, but in light of the E3 conference this week, it seems like a good time to revisit some of the challenges and opportunities in web-based gaming. Even as Microsoft, Sony,… Read more ›