Whatever your CDN of choice is, thePlatform has you covered
Written By: Jordan Friedman, Sr. Manager, Business Development
July 12, 2011
Chances are, if you use mpx to manage your online video business, then you also work with at least one Content Delivery Network (CDN). Fortunately, we work hand-in-hand with every major player in the CDN space, including Velocix, Akamai, Limelight, Level 3, Edgecast, and CDNetworks. And because we’re compatible with all of the major providers, we can help advise you on the right approach for delivering your content to your audience. For example, if you want to deliver an adaptive bitrate experience with Flash, Silverlight, and Apple HLS to a global audience across multiple device types, then we can recommend your best CDN options.
Typically, the four main criteria for evaluating CDNs are quality of service, geographic coverage, format/protocol support, and price. Depending on your business requirements, some criteria are more important than others.
Because of mpx’s flexible and open architecture, integrating with a CDN is a straightforward process. A typical integration between mpx and a CDN is plug-and-play, and we provide a “Server Model” which enables customers to set up connections to multiple CDNs, including traditional and peer-to-peer models. At the simplest level, as long as the CDN can provide an FTP location along with a delivery URL, the integration is complete. If you need additional functionality like secure URLs, cache clearing, etc., then most can be implemented using parameters specified in the delivery URL settings for each server.
The interaction between mpx and any given CDN is pretty simple:
1. mpx programmatically move files to the CDN.
2. The CDN returns back to mpx the delivery url for each video asset. mpx, in turn, manages access to that delivery url.
3. If/when the publisher wants to pull the file down from the CDN, mpx can programmatically do that as well.
So, regardless of your CDN choice, thePlatform has you covered. We either have customers already using your CDN of choice, or we can easily validate its compatibility with mpx.
To learn more about thePlatform’s CDN partners, click here.
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