Delivering against the four dimensions

Our robust and scalable infrastructure was originally designed to meet the challenges you face in delivering rich media to today’s Internet users. At Limelight Networks, we see four dimensions of the delivery challenge — and we believe all four must be addressed equally in order to guarantee an unparalleled user experience of online media.

Object size

Users want to seamlessly and consistently download larger objects. A high-resolution photo can be 200 kilobytes; a music track, 10 megabytes; and a half-hour television show, 350 megabytes. And now with HD content, a two-hour movie can weigh in at a massive 15 gigabytes.

Library size

Users demand an entire universe of content — all your video, all your music, all your photos — not just a subset. And every day, you have more objects in your library, even as your average object size is increasing.

Audience size

As global Internet access widens to more users and to more devices, your audience is growing exponentially. This means the demand for any item in your library can be greater than ever expected, creating the potential for unrelenting traffic and explosive spikes.

Object popularity

Among your users is a range of unpredictable interests and tastes. You need to be ready for a million audiences of one. And those esoteric and obscure requests for “long-tail” content need to be fulfilled just as quickly as requests for the most popular titles in your library.

When you partner with Limelight Networks, you can trust us to instantly deliver every object in your library to every user, every time. Because we focused on these four dimensions when we designed our network, we can keep this promise to you and to the customers you serve.

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