Founded in 2000, CDNetworks is a full-service

content delivery network A content delivery network, or content distribution network (CDN), is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance by distributing the service spatially re ...

(CDN) which provides technology, network infrastructure, and customer services for the delivery of Internet content and applications. The company is positioning itself as a multinational provider of content delivery services, with a particular emphasis on emerging Internet markets, including South America, India and China. The company's content delivery network consists of 1,500 Point of Presence (PoPs) on five continents. Services include CDN, video acceleration, DDoS protection,

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, cloud access security broker (CASB), web application firewall (WAF) and managed DNS with cloud load balancing. Key differentiators include a large number of global PoPs, good network presence in China and Russia, and high-profile clients such as

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and

Hyundai Hyundai is a South Korean industrial conglomerate ("chaebol"), which was restructured into the following groups: * Hyundai Group, parts of the former conglomerate which have not been divested ** Hyundai Mobis, Korean car parts company ** Hyundai ...

. CDNetworks has offices in the U.S., South Korea, China, Japan, UK and Singapore. CDNetworks has changed their logo colours in 2018 from blue green to a multi-coloured one, adding a tagline "Accelerate, Secure, Control". The headquarters have been relocated to Singapore at the end of 2018 from Hong Kong.

History

On December 20, 2007, CDNetworks raised $96.5 million from

Oak Investment Partners Oak Investment Partners is a private equity firm focusing on venture capital investments in companies developing communications systems, information technology, new Internet media, healthcare services and retail. History The firm, founded in 19 ...

, Shinhan Private Equity and

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International. On February 25, 2009, CDNetworks acquired Panther Express. On October 21, 2011, Japanese Telco

KDDI () is a Japanese telecommunications operator formed on October 1, 2000 through the merger of DDI Corp. (Daini-Denden Inc.), KDD (Kokusai Denshin Denwa) Corp. (itself a former listed state-owned enterprise privatized in 1998), and IDO Corp. It h ...

bought Content Delivery Network CDNetworks for $167 million. On 26 March, 2017, Wangsu Science & Technology bought 100% of shares from

for $185.72 million.

Initiatives

CDNetworks participates with

OpenDNS OpenDNS is an American company providing Domain Name System (DNS) resolution services—with features such as phishing protection, optional content filtering, and DNS lookup in its DNS servers—and a cloud computing security product suite, Umbre ...

Google Public DNS Google Public DNS is a Domain Name System (DNS) service offered to Internet users worldwide by Google. It functions as a recursive name server. Google Public DNS was announced on December 3, 2009, in an effort described as "making the web faster ...

, and other CDNs in an open initiative calle
"The Global Internet Speedup"
to improve the Internet for users around the world.. This collaboration is being done through an open IETF proposed standard called "edns-client-subnet" which helps better direct content to users thereby decreasing latency, decreasing congestion, increasing transfer speeds and helping the Internet to scale faster and further.

References

External links

CDNetworks US Website

Akamai & The CDN Price Wars
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cdnetworks Content delivery networks Domain Name System

History

Initiatives

See also

References

External links