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Product Assessment reports from Current Analysis provide a timely and in-depth evaluation on how leading products and services in a market measure up to their competition. They deliver an objective and un-biased look at a product's strengths and weaknesses, and relevant product metrics. Compare selected products with side-by-side listings of product metrics and other factors, with a focus on actionable intelligence.

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Akamai CDN Service

Akamai has a legacy of differentiation through its size and its extensive portfolio of services. As the CDN market becomes even more competitive, Akamai is looking to value-added cloud-based services to retain its leadership position in the market. (9/26/2011)

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AT&T CDN Service

AT&T has offered CDN services for nearly a decade, but the carrier is now taking it up a notch with the launch of new services and a cloud-based CDN. AT&T may not have a big market share, but this will change if it maintains this renewed focus. (9/21/2011)

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Internap CDN Service

Internap has enhanced its CDN services to address the challenge of a competitive CDN market more aggressively. Internap has a long track record serving financial and healthcare clients, the company is now working to win over the software market. (9/21/2011)

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Level 3 CDN Service

Level 3’s CDN storage capacity is now in the petabytes for customers, looking to change the game in the CDN space by leveraging its network ownership and capability to its advantage. (9/21/2011)

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Limelight CDN Service

Limelight is leveraging acquisitions to roll out new application acceleration services and compete on the new wave of CDN needs in the market. (9/21/2011)

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• Current Analysis Perspective
• Product Strengths & Weaknesses
• Product Metrics

• Services
  • HTTP Acceleration
    
  • Video Download
    
  • Parent / Child Caching
    
  • Large File Downloads
    
  • SSL Caching
    
  • Caching Control
    
  • Load Balancing Between CDN
    
  • Secure Caching
    
  • Streaming Protocols
    
  • Secure Streaming
    
  • Authoring
    
  • URL Management
    
  • Origin Server IP Address
    
  • Web Application Acceleration
    
  • Security Options
    
  • Storage
    
  • Geo-targeting, Geo Restriction
• Customer Support & Servicing
  • Customer Self-service Portal
    
  • Reporting
    
  • Publishing
    
  • Technical Support
    
  • Event Support
    
  • Billing Options
    
  • Other
• Infrastructure
  • Geographic Presence - Countries Globally
    
  • Number of Data Centers/Servers
    
  • Routing
    
  • Security
    
  • Network Ownership
    
  • Network Interconnects
    
  • Throughput - Maximum Commit Offered to Customers
    
  • Architecture
• SLAs
  • Service Availability
    
  • Proactive / Reactive SLAs
    
  • Third-party Performance Measurement
    
  • SLA Reporting
• Go-to-Market
  • Price Structures /Pricing Options
    
  • Salesforce - Direct or Partners
    
  • Target Customers
• Supplemental Services
  • Hosting
    
  • Application Management
    
  • Professional Services
    
  • Content Management
    
  • Security Services
    
  • Other