CDNetworks ups its U.S. game

Around for nine years in Asia, CDNetworks is making inroads in the U.S. Network Optimization Alert NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by ExtraHop Networks Updating your Net Management Strategy. Find out if your network management approach is suffering in this whitepaper, "Seven Deadly Sins of Network Management." The net management shortfalls outlined include: Relying on agents for deep visibility and focusing too little on capacity planning. Solve each problem with alternative solutions explained here. Download this whitepaper now. Spotlight Story CDNetworks ups its U.S. game By Ann Bednarz Look out Akamai and Limelight Networks: CDNetworks has set its sights on the U.S. market. Read full story Ann Bednarz is associate news editor at Network World. Related News: How Akamai shrinks the world for SAP Users Remember the old FedEx package delivery slogan, "When it absolutely, positively has to get there overnight"? 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MPLS cloud pried open by new software Enterprises are being offered a new product that can monitor MPLS traffic 'in the cloud', allowing them, to keep a direct eye on the levels of service being delivered by WAN providers. Who Is CDNetworks? Who is this up-and-coming CDN service provider expanding our way from Asia? Here’s what we’ve been able to glean about CDNetworks so far. Korean Dragon Crashes Akamai’s Party As with many markets born in the US, we predict that the US content delivery network (CDN) market is poised to experience its comeuppance from Asia, as Korea-based CDNetworks enters the US market in earnest. 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