Content delivery network (CDN) - effective way to deliver media to large audience

Content delivery network (CDN) providers offer hosted services for delivering on-demand video across high-performance, reliable networks. It is the most effective way to deliver streaming media to the largest possible audience without the hassle of setting up and maintaining your own streaming server hardware and network.

Flash Video Streaming Service (FVSS) built with Adobe Flash Media Server and integrated directly into the CDN delivery, tracking, and reporting infrastructure is one of the most popular ways to deliver streaming video. Flash Video Streaming Service delivers FLV files.

All FVSS providers offer the following capabilities to help ensure the best delivery for your Flash Player compatible video content:

• Built-in load balancing and failover to scale video even in the heaviest traffic
• Video streaming that starts the instant viewers click Play
• A high-performance network that ensures video isn't clogged up on the Internet
• Automatic tracking and report generation at the click of a button
• Flexible bandwidth and storage based on client needs

Leading CDN providers

• Akamai is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online. Akamai effectively delivers both on-demand and live streaming in FLV format for the largest global media and entertainment companies. Serving over 2Gbps of FLV streaming traffic daily, the Akamai Edge Platform can easily scale to meet the skyrocketing demand for streaming media that has reinvented how the world experiences the Internet.
  
• Limelight Networks
  Limelight Networks is the leading CDN for digital media. Limelight's global content delivery services are designed for on-demand and live delivery of video, music, games, and social media to broadband and mobile audiences. Limelight leads the industry in "Delivering the Digital Lifestyle."