Highwinds' StrikeTracker control panel
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Content delivery services provider Highwinds (www.highwinds.com) announced on Wednesday that it has expanded its portfolio to include a Licensed CDN offering for ISPs, telecos and MSOs.
This comes a few months after its appointment of Mike Padula Jr. to the senior vice president of global sales for content delivery and network services.
According to the press release, its Licensed CDN will enable these providers to create new CDN-based revenue streams by delivering advanced CDN capabilities to customers.
Highwinds Licensed CDN was architected to allow providers to rapidly transition between Highwinds’ multiple CDN solution tiers – reselling, managed hosting and licensing without re-provisioning customer accounts, the press release says.
“We’ve been licensing our software and providing managed hosting services to ISPs and telcos since 2003, and we currently have 63 customers in this space. We were also the first CDN to offer a reseller model, complete with private-labeling, APIs, and a high degree of R&D transparency,” Steve Miller, chairman and CEO of Highwinds said in a statement. “As such, responding to the CDN needs of last-mile providers with a licensing and federating platform was a natural next step for us.”
Highwinds Licensed CDN platform allows CDN resellers to brand the StrikeTracker RIA as its own. Highwinds offers capacity planning, rollout assistance and ongoing support to managed service providers. It also allows providers to license the CDN software stack and can expand their CDN footprint through federation.
“With the rapid growth of OTT video being delivered over last-mile networks around the world, the CDN space is obviously interesting to telcos and other communications providers. For some, it makes perfect sense to design their own CDN. For most, it does not,” Josh Gagliardi, Highwinds’ CTO stated. “Our Licensed CDN platform is designed for the vast majority who need instant-on, flexible, scalable, reliable CDN solutions – now. It also delivers the unique hardware infrastructure and solid software foundation on which the Federated CDN must be built.”
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