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Caching platform provider PeerApp will collaborate with content...

Caching platform provider PeerApp will collaborate with content delivery networks (CDNs) EdgeCast and Limelight to find solutions for better delivery of over-the-top content, it said in a Monday news release (http://mwne.ws/18cQtbZ). As consumer demand increases for over-the-top services, network operators…

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face increased expenses related to traffic growth with no associated increase in revenue, it said. PeerApp’s Content Service Extension will integrate operator resources into existing CDNs, letting operators offer faster and better service to consumers, and allowing them to monetize on the delivery of over-the-top content, Chief Technology Officer Alan Arolovitch told us. The companies hope to begin rolling out solutions sometime this year, with market trials scheduled for the second half of 2013, he said. Arolovitch said the technology could be useful for existing CDNs as well as content providers like eBay and Facebook which might consider developing their own CDNs as traffic continues to grow.