AT&T is offering an enterprise-focused content delivery service that allows companies to create what amounts to an in-house content delivery network for storing and distributing content behind their own firewalls, Network World reports. AT&T's Private Content Distribution Service (PCDS) targets intra-enterprise applications such as video-based job training and corporate Webcasts. Using a service from an outside party like AT&T means that enterprise I.T. departments can outsource the management and monitoring responsibility, while also keeping some content traffic from clogging up their private networks.
For more:
- Network World has this story [1]
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The CDN market has seen new interests and the beginning of consolidation [2]
Verizon has been one of the other major players in the CDN market [3]
Links:
[1] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/042109-att-pcds.html?hpg1=bn
[2] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/cdn-market-rocked-new-entrants-merger/2009-02-25
[3] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/verizons-cdn-push-takes-different-path/2008-11-20