09.18.06
Distribution infrastructure for video and music
With popularity of music and video on MySpace.com, iTune and YouTube.com, the web is getting more crowded by the day. According to Akamai and Yankee, a typical music file is about 5M in size, and a typical movie is about 1500M. Compare to a typical web page at 100K or less, that is 50x - 15000x magnitude change. What this means is that as more and more bandwidth is consumed for multimedia content. The long forgotten fiber backbone will light up and more service provider infrastructure is going to be needed to distribute content to the edge.
Top vendor like Akamai is doing well with its share price rise 300% in 1 year. Other smaller players like VitalStream and Limelight seem to pick steam as well. According to an business week article, VitalStream (which just recenly appointment a new CFO) is getting $6M in Q2 with 57% of Y/Y increase, and have MySpace.com and Disney as customers. Limelight raised about $130M of funding recently, with customers like youtube. The interesting question is how is Peer-to-Peer is going to play in this. With wide success of Skype, P2P is getting its deserved market attention. Some of the new players like Voeh, NeoEdge, Red Swoosh, skyrider etc are all positioned to use P2P as a distribution mechanism for large files. I am a fan of P2P. Since everyone’s definition of edge is different, it might be more than just PC to PC, it can be server to server and router to router.
Boundaryfree » Site Map said,
October 16, 2006 at 3:59 am
[…] Distribution infrastructure for video and music […]
Boundaryfree » P2P Video said,
November 7, 2006 at 1:41 am
[…] With YouTube’s lofty price, everyone is talking about Video distribution. Given the high bandwidth requirement of a video content vs html and voice, many people start to target P2P as a distribution mechanism. Businessweek has a blog on this topic recently regarding the Venice Project, a P2P startup from the Skype and Kazaa founders. This might not be as successful as the spype for the following reasons: […]
boundaryfree.com » P2P Video said,
November 17, 2006 at 4:05 am
[…] With YouTube’s lofty price, everyone is talking about Video distribution. Given the high bandwidth requirement of a video content vs html and voice, many people start to target P2P as a distribution mechanism. Businessweek has a blog on this topic recently regarding the Venice Project, a P2P startup from the Skype and Kazaa founders. This might not be as successful as the spype for the following reasons: […]