EdgeCast's rich media CDN offering customers quickly distribute online content to world-wide end-users through its various points of presence.
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December 30, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Having added new clients including Parallels, Twistage and PureVideo in the final quarter of 2008, EdgeCast Networks (www.edgecast.com) has topped more than 300 total customers, showing its substantial gains in the rich media content delivery network market within its first full year of operation.
Delivering content through EdgeCast's worldwide network makes web content faster and more reliable to end-users, letting companies deliver content based on geographic location and cache data on multiple servers. According to the company's Tuesday announcement, EdgeCast is the fastest-growing CDN, having signed dozens of new customers across a wide variety of industries, delivering high-profile events such as Farm Aid, Miss USA and Michael Moore's online-only film "Slacker Uprising."
"Our technical team has had their heads down, maintaining 100 percent availability, deploying hundreds of servers globally, and adding features to our software," stated James Segil, president of EdgeCast, which operates points of presence in San Jose, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney. "Alongside them, our sales and marketing team brought on significant new customers."
Last week, IT hosting provider ThePlanet.com Internet Services (www.theplanet.com) chose content delivery network provider EdgeCast Networks (www.EdgeCast.com) to provide the basis of The Planet's new hosted CDN offerings, giving hosting customers with content-driven sites a CDN solution that gives them immediate access to hundreds of edge servers worldwide.
"We're obviously pleased that our business continues to grow rapidly," Segil continued, "especially in such a challenging market environment. As more customers see the need for a full-service global CDN, we're confident that we will sustain this growth during 2009."
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Comment by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Edgecast sucks and everyone knows it
Comment by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Edgecast's network is slow. They copy other companies patterns of routing and the owners always sell there companies after 3 years. What else do you need to know?