CDN Deployments [248]: TeliaSonera Partners with EdgeCast

   

EdgeCast Networks and TeliaSonera announced a ".. managed CDN agreement that will bring new site acceleration and CDN solutions to TeliaSonera’s customer base while expanding the reach and capacity of the EdgeCast network .. TeliaSonera will offer solutions to achieve great web performance and scalability for websites and applications to the Nordic enterprise market. For media and entertainment, TeliaSonera will provide unprecedented reach and quality for over-the-top media delivery .. The companies have begun the network deployment and services are already available from TeliaSonera"

TeliaSonra's CDN offers the following services: Web performance, Media Delivery, HTTP Caching, Analytics, Storage, Security, Rules Engine and Edge Optimizer (using Google’s PageSpeed technology - see "EdgeCast Shows 77% Performance Improvement w/Integrated Google’s PageSpeed" - here). 

TeliaSonera has "CDN presence on five continents thanks to our own footprint and the global CDN Federation. In addition to our Edge CDN nodes in the Nordic countries, we also have presence in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia". 

 

Staffan Göjeryd, VP Product Management, TeliaSonera said: “Site acceleration and global content delivery have become core business requirements for many of our customers, and therefore offering those services is of critical strategic importance to us .. The partnership with EdgeCast positions us perfectly to offer a global suite of CDN solutions to the Nordic customer base while also adding a significant new source of revenue”.

See "EdgeCast and TeliaSonera Partner on Content Delivery" - here.