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Akamai CDN Prices – the Battle Continues

Posted By: varun krishnan Published in Brands, Web Tags: Brands, Web

Aug

The Content Delivery Network Market is hotter than ever now. The number of websites delivering content to a Global Audience is on the rise.

I came across an interesting post my Om Malik in this context.

Akamai Technologies (AKAM) has lost over $3 billion in market cap in the last one month due to increased costs and reduced prices due to heavy competition. Akamai has a presence in India as well with a lot of Indian websites thronging them for collocation. A long time customer of Akamai in India is rediff.

Just see the ping time for rediff india’s homepage

Reply from 220.227.238.168: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=62

VSNL ,Bharti, Reliance, Sify have their data-centre businesses but the costs are to high. VSNL has been there for a long time .

I would debate later on the difference between partnering with a CDN Vs getting up A Dedicated Server Cluster.

Will be interesting to watch how CDN players / prices perform in the current web2.0 scenario.

Online Video is currently booming and broadband penetration is also rising.

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whoisneha Says, in 9-14-2007 at 17:31:06 from 202.54.243.56

Hi Varun
I was hunting for more info on CDNs in the Indian market…there does not seem to be much. Apart from akamai (what % of indian mkt share do they have?), which are the other major players in India? Has there any study been done on this mkt for India? Would appreciateif you could provide some further info on this.

Thanx
Neha

varun krishnan Says, in 9-14-2007 at 18:29:20 from 220.227.31.66

Hi Neha,

Most people in India prefer to use VSNL for hosting content as the charges are fixed rather than

Akamai who charges based on usage.

Even Reliance and Airtel have opened up their Datacenter biz now in India.

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