Infrastructure Services | Content Delivery – Limelight Networks

How can Limelight Networks help your business?

No matter what your business, you’ll delight users with broad selections of content, 100% availability, and superfast and reliable delivery of every request. At the same time, your business will benefit from the unmatched flexibility and scalability of our services.

Rich media web pages
Viral marketing campaigns
Website acceleration
Webcast and events
Catalog acceleration

Streaming video, hip music, gorgeous photography, specialized microsites — make your dotcom presence as amazing as your company. LimelightSITE caches your site to ensure lightning-fast load times, while LimelightSTREAM delivers smooth streaming media that’s sure to inform, educate, or entertain. And with Limelight Networks, you can launch your site as fast as you can imagine it.

Put the Internet to work in creative new ways. With LimelightSITE and our suite of professional services, you can launch wildly successful online marketing initiatives — without waiting for your IT department to build an infrastructure to support you. Our Geo Reporting features also enable you to see where your traffic is coming from, so you can target regional preferences and serve language-specific content.

Advance your brand and delight your site visitors. With LimelightSITE, your web pages will load fast for a great user experience — no worries about abandoned transactions and lost sales — even during extreme traffic spikes. You can also add our Site Optimization service to optimize your infrastructure for peak performance.

Get closer to your customers, partners, investors, and employees, no matter where in the world they happen to be. Use LimelightSITE for interactive webinars, or LimelightSTREAM for real-time webcast of noteworthy events. Our Live Event services team can help you ensure a flawless broadcast of your special events by assisting with signal acquisition, encoding, high-availability planning, on-the-spot trouble-shooting, and overall project management. And protect your broadcast from unauthorized viewers with our Media Vault option.

Thousands of photos and videos in your online catalog? With LimelightSITE, they’ll load in a flash. So your customers can browse products and zoom in on details to their heart’s content — for a truly enjoyable online experience. Additional controls allow you to manage who can embed content and prevent unauthorized sites from deep linking to your valuable content. Add rich reporting features and you can identify the most viewed items and where in the world (or country) viewers are located.

UGC storage and delivery
Advertising integration
Encoding and transcoding
Scalable growth
Consistent global delivery

Photos, video clips, music tracks — when users share their creativity, you have no idea what’s coming. Whether you use LimelightDELIVER for downloads, the popular progressive download “pseudo-streaming” method, or LimelightSTREAM for true media streaming, your site can handle massive libraries of increasingly large files, even superfast delivery of long-tail content for audiences of one. And bandwidth control enables you to manage delivery efficiency and costs, especially in scenarios with high abandonment rates.

Your site speaks to highly valued demographic groups, setting you up for lucrative advertising opportunities. With LimelightSTREAM, you can integrate video for instantaneous delivery of rich media ads. And with LimelightDELIVER, you can monetize your site by selling music, videos, ringtones, and more — right from your ads. Choose from some of today’s leading ad insertion technologies, including LimelightADS,and take full advantage of our high-performance, rich media CDN to expand your monetization opportunities.

No matter where your content is coming from, no matter how it comes in, you need to deliver it in a consistent format that’s accessible on any IP-connected PC or device. Limelight Networks makes it easy to add user-generated content to your sites in your choice of major media formats. Starting with your source content, simply define your workflow: choose your encoding/transcoding profile, specify one or more target formats, set the bit rate, and specify the destination sites or devices — and your media is transformed and uploaded automatically.

Ramp quickly and be ready for anything: whether your site draws a tsunami of visitors or explosive spikes at unpredictable moments. Thanks to a scalable architecture and flexible pricing models, Limelight Networks can dial you up as far as you need to grow — while helping you manage costs as your site builds momentum.

You never know where your audience will come from. Whether in Beijing or Baton Rouge, they want the same instantaneous access to the content on your site and the same ability to add content. Since Limelight Networks has massively equipped data centers around the globe, your users will enjoy a consistent experience — even of HD video — during every single interaction.

Live event broadcast
On-demand video & music
Internet radio and TV
Content monetization
Distribution control

Internet coverage of live events is creating new models of audience-to-media interaction. Choose LimelightSTREAM to deliver sporting events, breaking news, live webcasts, and concerts in real time — and allow global audiences to comment, ask questions, or simply enjoy the event as it unfolds. Our Live Event professional service offering can help you ensure flawless broadcast of special events with assistance on signal acquisition, encoding, high-availability planning, on-the-spot trouble-shooting, and overall project management.

Reach audiences of unprecedented size on virtually any IP-connected device. LimelightDELIVER distributes movies, trailers, podcasts, episodic content, music, and more — all at lightning-fast speeds. By adding LimelightHD, you can even offer true HD video to broadband customers. And since our services scale with your library and file sizes, you never have to worry about latency or compromising user experience. And to extend your reach to mobile device users everywhere, check out LimelightREACH, our new mobile video solution.

With Internet broadcasting, geography is no longer a factor. Limelight Networks enables you to deliver compelling content to global audiences across multiple platforms and devices. Use LimelightSTREAM for real-time news coverage and archived podcasts. Or choose LimelightDELIVER to support reliable, uninterrupted delivery of audio and video. Protect your content and copyrights by restricting access to authorized users using Media Vault — or limiting delivery to defined geographic regions using Geo Compliance. Want to integrate dynamic ads into your audio content? Check out LimelightADS, our new ad insertion solution.

Make the most of your media assets with pay-per-view, rental, advertising, subscription, or purchase models. Our digital rights management (DRM) partners help you realize direct revenue-generating business models for monetizing your content. And with LimelightADS, our new ad insertion solution, you can serve targeted dynamic advertising along with your audio and video content. Keep track of it all with advanced reports that provide user-specific details, audience statistics, Geo Reporting, download receipts, and bill-back support.

Copyright protection for licensed content is not an option; it’s a requirement. That’s why Limelight Networks offers tools for managing content distribution. Geo Compliance allows you to permit or restrict access to your content based on the user’s location. Industry-leading DRM partnerships enable you to secure access to streamed media, downloads, and progressive downloads. Content owners get the revenue protection they deserve, regardless of the business model chosen.

Website acceleration
Video-based information
Document distribution
Private networks

No matter how many pages you have, you want your visitors to easily find whatever they need. With LimelightSITE, your website will perform beautifully — even when large public audiences are looking up critical information at the same time. Add our Site Optimization service to optimize your internal infrastructure for even higher performance and cost-effectiveness.

Interactive webinars, real-time webcasts, demos, and training clips. With LimelightSITE or LimelightSTREAM, it’s easy and affordable to share up-to-date video-based material with the public, your employees, or other important constituencies. For critical public addresses and speeches, you can even choose to add our Live Event services for flawless live broadcasts.

Massive libraries of forms, PDFs, and other official files require a specialized delivery solution. LimelightSITE enables you to store your entire universe of audio, video, and electronic documentation and make them instantly available. And when security of these digital assets is important, you can use Media Vault to limit access only to authorized individuals.

Need to securely share information — software, videos, PDFs, and other files — within your organization? Limelight Networks offers Managed Infrastructure services, where we’ll set up a private network and manage it on your behalf. We’ll integrate with your IT team to build the infrastructure required for your operation.

Online software fulfillment
Delivery confirmation
Upgrades and updates
Distribution control

Extend your reach and fulfill customer demand instantly, reducing support calls and saving on shipping, packaging, and other costs of physical product. LimelightDELIVER ensures ubiquitous availability of your software — and delivers it without interruption. And since our network was designed to speed even the largest files to your customers, they can be using your software within minutes. You can also leverage the same robust network features to offer trial and promotional versions of your software online.

Increase sales with better data about customer behavior: for example, what software are they downloading and from which pages. You can also confirm that your entire package was downloaded successfully, thanks to the completion reporting option in LimelightDELIVER. This information provides critical insight into conversion rates to measure the success of your software download initiatives. In addition to bill-back support, you can choose advanced reports, including Geo Reporting, for complete insight into global traffic and behavior patterns.

Reduce support calls and improve customer satisfaction by providing self-service availability of patches, updates, and the latest software. With LimelightDELIVER, you won’t need to worry about traffic spikes, even if your entire universe of users decides to upgrade at the same moment. And since pricing is based on actual delivery, you only pay for peak loads when they happen.

Copyright protection and compliance with government regulations are critical to your business. That’s why Limelight Networks offers a Geo Compliance option that allows or denies user access based on geography. Using advanced IP address — lookup technology, you can serve content by geographic rules, keeping you in compliance with minimal effort.

Online game distribution
Game content acceleration
Marketing and promotions
Program updates

Accelerate time-to-market and satisfy consumers the moment they learn about your newest offering. When you use LimelightDELIVER, the world’s most impatient gamers will appreciate superfast downloads to any IP-enabled game console, device, or PC. Choose our custom services to meet the unique requirements for distributed game platforms.

Immersive 3D backdrops, intense sound effects, and photorealistic virtual worlds with Hollywood-quality production values — these files are enormous. LimelightDELIVER loads them in real time, so your online gamers will never experience a lag or stutter, even during the most dynamic gameplay.

Take advantage of the impulses of this interactive audience. Or imagine viral marketing campaigns that play to entire communities of gamers. With LimelightDELIVER, you can distribute game trailers and video-based demos to generate excitement over the hottest new game. And guarantee that your promotional experience will be just as immersive as the game itself.

Your voracious customers want upgrades and patches the second they’re released. With LimelightDELIVER, updates are always available to global audiences everywhere. And since your Limelight Networks service is both scalable and flexible, we handle these intense traffic spikes with ease.

When you choose Limelight Networks, you’ll have everything you need to get started — no capital investment, no expertise, and no maintenance required. Choose from these CDN services:

How can Limelight Networks help your business?

LimelightDELIVER and LimelightDELIVER XD

LimelightSTREAM

LimelightSITE

LimelightHD

LimelightREACH

LimelightADS

LimelightCONTROL

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