Leading content delivery network (CDN) vendor announces most
comprehensive new release in company history, with significant network
and software enhancements in security, storage, mobile device support,
purge, self-service and more
TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Limelight
Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:LLNW) (“Limelight”), a global leader in
digital content delivery, today announced the release of Limelight
Orchestrate V3.0, a comprehensive platform, purpose-built for the
delivery of digital content with exceptional Quality
of Experience (QoE). Over two years in development, this next
generation of Limelight’s award-winning Orchestrate™ ("Orchestrate")
Platform marks the most comprehensive set of enhancements to
infrastructure, software, and services in the company’s history,
offering improvements to virtually all aspects of Limelight’s customer
experience, and expanding the company’s offerings to include a new set
of services focused on security.
The enhanced capabilities of the Orchestrate V3.0 platform enable
organizations to better deliver rich digital content rapidly, reliably,
securely, and with high QoE to global audiences anywhere, on any device.
“An exponential increase in the delivery of digital content is straining
the capabilities of the internet, and today’s consumers are becoming
increasingly impatient with poor quality of experience in accessing this
rich content,” stated Limelight CEO, Robert Lento. “Content owners are
struggling with the challenge of providing high quality digital
experiences in the face of Distributed Denial of Service attacks,
network logjams, mobile device proliferation, and the increasing size of
both content files and content libraries. Working with customers and
partners, today we introduce market leading enhancements that simplify
management, improve performance, and increase efficiency across
Limelight’s solution offerings.”
As businesses increasingly engage with customers online, content
continues to become richer and needs to be delivered to more devices, in
more locations, across the globe. The Orchestrate V3.0 platform supports
faster content delivery and the need to deliver content across all
devices and geographies, while protecting publishers from Distributed
Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and ensuring they deliver an excellent
experience for their customers.
Viewster AG, a leading global free online video service, knows the
importance of consistent and high performance delivery of their digital
content. Viewster relies on the Orchestrate platform, using the Content
Delivery, Storage, Video and Performance services, to reach customers
globally, reliably, and with a high QoE.
“Limelight gives us the geographic reach we need, the performance our
customers demand, and provides high availability of content to our
customers” said Pietro Capozzi, vice president, Viewster AG. “The bottom
line is that Limelight allows us to provide an excellent digital
experience for our customers,” continued Capozzi.
In the report entitled, ‘Drive
Unified Digital Customer Experiences With Better Technology Strategies’,
Forrester Research, Inc., July 2014, Forrester Research Vice President
Stephen Powers and Analyst Mark Grannan make the case that “Digital
Customer Experiences Are Pervasive -- And Vital:Good customer
experience makes your firm stand out. Increasingly, customers experience
your firm's products and services via digital touchpoints. The digital
experiences your customers have via their mobile phones, rich web
applications, and conversations aided by social media are now vital to
your firm's growth and profitability.”
Today’s announcement of Orchestrate 3.0 includes, among others, these
six discreet and distinct capabilities.
1. DDoS Attack Interceptor: Detects and mitigates network and
application layer DDoS attacks. Protects customers against downtime,
loss of business and brand reputation impact of attacks. See related
press release here.
2. SmartPurge: Accurately purges unwanted content from the CDN
world-wide with unmatched speed and consistency. Customers can now
confidently remove content quickly and reliably with minimum effort.
3. Self Service Configuration Management: Enables customers to quickly
respond to business decisions in real-time. Easy to use tools allow
customers to make configuration changes that will then take effect in
less than 30 minutes.
4. Multi-device media delivery (MMD) Live: Extends MMD’s industry
leading on-the-fly transcoding and transmuxing capabilities to live
streaming. Customers can now publish a live stream to multiple devices
using adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming, reducing buffering and enhancing
the user experience. MMD simplifies live video streaming to all desktop,
mobile, tablet, smart TV, Internet connected set-top-box, and gaming
console platforms.
5. Storage: Enhancements to policy defined storage resulting in smart
workflows, allowing just-in-time transformation of data. Provides
flexible user replication policy to over 30 global locations. Flexible
upload allows for faster migration of customers’ content to the CDN.
Improved response time features allow customers quicker access to their
content.
6. Real-time Analytics and Reporting: Based on Limelight’s patented
EdgeQuery technology, real-time analytics and reporting offers Limelight
customers access to detailed data and reports about their service usage
within the Limelight Control Portal. Increases granularity and reduces
the time to access service usage data, providing a view of usage with a
delay of less than five minutes.
Limelight’s Global Private Network
Limelight’s global network is one of the world’s largest private
networks for delivering digital content. With over 80 points-of-presence
(POPs) and 11Tbps of egress capacity across the globe, this network has
successfully delivered some of the world’s biggest internet events.
Capable of handling massive spikes in traffic and user volatility, the
Limelight network ensures that digital content is delivered with the
best QoE possible without exposing customer traffic to the vagaries of
the public internet. V3.0 related enhancements to Limelight’s network
include upgrades to solid state disks, added processing capability,
increased bandwidth and connectivity, and new points of presence across
the globe.
"With the Orchestrate 3.0 platform we have enabled our customers to
provide an excellent quality of experience to their user, which is
essential for them to compete successfully today,” continued Lento.
“Over two years in development, this release sets a new standard.
Offering the industry’s highest performance and availability, only
integrated cloud-based origin storage, fastest and only guaranteed purge
capability, integrated DDoS detection and mitigation, comprehensive
mobile device support for live and VOD, self-service capabilities, and
detailed real-time analytics and reporting, our Orchestrate 3.0 platform
is truly the world’s most advanced digital delivery platform.”
The Orchestrate V3.0 delivery platform is in use today supporting the
following Limelight services:
For more information on Limelight Orchestrate V3.0, please visit www.limelight.com/orchestrate/.
About Limelight
Limelight Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLNW), a global leader in digital
content delivery, empowers customers to better engage digital audiences
by enabling them to manage and deliver digital content on any device,
anywhere in the world. The company’s award winning Limelight
Orchestrate™ platform includes an integrated suite of content delivery
technology and services that helps organizations deliver exceptional
multi-screen experiences, improve brand awareness, drive revenue, and
enhance customer relationships — all while reducing costs. For more
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