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Stunning HD that renders in amazing clarity and speed

Whether you’re in the business of delivering movies, TV shows, sports events, or immersive games, your audiences demand brilliance. With LimelightHD, you’ll delight viewers with true HD video that renders in amazing clarity and speed over the Internet. Best of all, this high-performance service allows you to deliver enormous HD files while conforming to the economics of your business.

LimelightHD builds on our LimelightDELIVER and LimelightSTREAM service suites, leveraging the same robust network to speed delivery of HD video to your audience’s screens. Our massively provisioned Delivery Centers cache all your active HD content close to your users — connecting your entire library directly with more than 900 access networks around the world. So when a viewer hits play, your HD video plays in an instant. No false starts and no skips or stutters. And with our 100 percent SLA, delivery is guaranteed, all day and night, all the time.

How does it work?

It starts with your existing catalog, delivered using our LimelightSTREAM or LimelightDELIVER service. With LimelightHD, we add high-performance delivery of the content you choose to make available in HD. Our service handles video at 720p and 1080p resolution and at bit rates of 1.5 Mbps or higher — significantly better than the 400-Kbps video quality typically available on the Internet today.

Because not every user is on a broadband connection, we also host the standard definition (SD) titles that correspond to your HD titles. Our network determines which users can accept delivery of rich HD video and serves them the full HD file in all its glory. The SD content will be delivered to anyone on a slower connection. No matter what, your content is always instantly available to your audiences, wherever they are in the world.

The pricing is right

Our pricing structure is just as intelligent as our network. Rather than price HD delivery as a function of file size, we offer a quality incentive that allows you to deploy HD video content at minimal incremental cost over your current SD video. So there’s no major impact on your existing business model.

Separate tracking and reporting

How do you monetize HD content unless you can verify that people are receiving it? Our advanced reporting system tracks LimelightHD traffic separately from your other LimelightDELIVER or LimelightSTREAM traffic, making it easy to analyze audience viewing habits and preferences — and guiding development of your HD business.

With LimelightCONTROL, our advanced management and reporting service (formerly known as LimelightEXCHANGE), you can monitor date and time of HD transactions or view a list of the most requested titles. If you choose LimelightCONTROL X or LimelightCONTROL XD, you’ll have access to the Geo Reporting option — so you can assess your HD traffic at a global or continent level and drill down instantly for city-by-city details.

Specifications

Description
Limelight HD available as an extension to LimelightSTREAM and LimelightDELIVER services for video content only
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LimelightHD API required to verify if the user connection has sufficient bandwidth for HD delivery
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Delivery of HD content tracked separately from SD content
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Content
Support for HD content at industry-standard resolutions
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HD content must be encoded at a minimum of 1.5 Mbps and 24 or more frames per second
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Best if HD content is stored on the Limelight Networks CDN
LimelightSTREAM service
Formats supported: Windows Media (including Silverlight), Flash (including Dynamic Streaming), and H.264
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LimelightDELIVER service
Support for progressive download only
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Formats supported: Windows Media (including Silverlight), Flash, H.264, QuickTime, Real, and any other progressive formats

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In the Limelight - Blog

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    In the Limelight

    “At Fox Interactive, the delivery of premium HD content on Fox on Demand is a critical element in accelerating the market. Limelight's approach to HD content delivery — fast, reliable and scalable — will ensure that consumers can enjoy the programming they want to see, on multiple devices and formats.”

    — Ron Berryman, Senior VP and General Manager, Fox Interactive Media

     
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    Brilliant bits

    31% of adults online at home report they view video on the Internet at least weekly, including 10% who view video
    on the Internet daily.

    Source: Leichtman Research Group

     
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