Yankee Group: CDNs Expand to Mobile Broadband [Independent Caching OK?]

  

"The market for mobile CDN services has not yet hit its stride, but it will be a key growth area in the future. Carriers and content providers are increasingly looking to CDNs for help with mobile video service products, and CDNs are amping themselves up to be prepared to offer such mobile video-centric services" - concludes Terry Cudmore, from the Yankee Group in a new research "As Mobile Networks Increase in Importance, So Do Mobile CDNs"  - here.

As I do not have access to the report, I can't say if it covers also the independent caching solutions that operators may install at their core networks, such as the solutions offered by Allot (Mediaswift), Bluecoat (here), Huawei (here), Oversi (here) and PeerApp (here). These solutions will cache videos (and shared files) regardless of the content providers, instead of deploying several CDNs each handling specific content.

Caching of shared files presents another advantage to mobile operators - uploads (to off-net users) may be delivered by the cache server, eliminating the need to go to the user's device over the expensive radio network.