Video Impact Prompts Microsoft to Build Huge CDN

The online video impact has caused a lot of changes, and is one of the factors that influenced Microsoft in creating their own content delivery network, the ‘Edge Computing Network.’ (ECN) An article by Janko Roettgers on NewTeeVee.com says that Microsoft’s bandwidth has been growing from 30-100 percent annually, and a large portion of that growth is from online video. The amount of video data in relation to Microsoft’s total data delivery has grown from 10% in 2007 to an expected 55% in 2010.

Microsoft has been building ECN for 3-4 years and has traditionally used third-party CDNs for content delivery. Microsoft projects that as much as 60% of their content will be delivered by ECN by next year.

Beyond freeing up some space and moving the work in-house, Microsoft sees some possibility for P2P networking through ECN. Microsoft is building a large number of nodes worldwide that will not only be delivering data to users, but can also deliver peer-to-peer data through a subset of ECN users, structured by IP ranges.

This new content delivery network could mean a new way of sharing online video- and furthering video impact on the Internet in the future.

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