Sales of content delivery network (CDN) services will grow threefold...
Sales of content delivery network (CDN) services will grow threefold in the next five years, reaching $4.63 billion in 2017, Informa Telecoms & Media said in a research report Tuesday. The rise in sales will accompany an overall fivefold increase…
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in global CDN traffic, Informa said. CDNs are essential to ensuring the Internet works by mitigating network congestion and delays, but telecom operators’ deployment of network-based CDNs has contributed to concerns the operators could distort the Internet’s neutrality by prioritizing delivery of some content, Informa said. “The widespread use of traffic-management practices by network operators raises questions about whether the Internet has ever been as open as net-neutrality proponents would like,” Chris Drake, an Informa analyst, said in a news release. “The rise ... of new operator and content-provider CDNs is just the latest illustration of ways in which the Internet is becoming less neutral” (http://xrl.us/bnsbyp).