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| 1998 || January 5 || Organization || Level 3 Communications is founded. It would later provide CDN, {{w|enterprise software}}, and [[w:web hosting service|web hosting]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Level 3 Communications |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/level-2 |website=crunchbase.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Level 3 |url=https://www.cdnplanet.com/cdns/level3/ |website=cdnplanet.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 1998 || || Organization || CDN provider {{w|Rackspace}} is founded.<ref name="Content Delivery Network Explained">{{cite web |title=Content Delivery Network Explained |url=https://www.globaldots.com/content-delivery-network-explained/#Multi-CDN |website=globaldots.com |accessdate=5 July 2019}}</ref>
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| 1998 || || Organization || {{w|Akamai Technologies}} is founded. It is the first company to build a large-scale business around CDNs.<ref name="Content Delivery and Distribution Networks (CDN)"/>
| 2001 || September || Crisis || The {{w|September 11 attacks}} occur, spurring a sudden, unanticipated mass of Internet users trying to access the particular news site, simultaneously. This causes severe caching problems, and finally more money invested in developing CDN hosting to provide protection from the flash crowds for the websites.<ref name="The History of Content Delivery Networks (CDN)"/>
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| 2001 || || Evolution || Broadband Services Forum (BSF), [[w:Internet Content Adaptation Protocol|ICAP]] forum, {{w|Internet Streaming Media Alliance}} organizations start taking initiatives to develop standards for delivering broadband content, streaming rich media content – video, audio, and associated data – over the Internet.<ref name="The History of Content Delivery Networks (CDN)"/>
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| 2001 || July 1 || Organization || CDN provider {{w|Limelight Networks}} is founded.<ref>{{cite web |title=Limelight Networks |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/limelightnetworks#section-overview |website=crunchbase.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="Discontent and disruption in the world of content delivery networks">{{cite web |title=Discontent and disruption in the world of content delivery networks |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/discontent-and-disruption-in-the-world-of-content-delivery-networks/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=5 July 2019}}</ref>
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| 2002 || || Organization || CDN provider {{w|CacheFly}} is founded. It would develop the world's first TCP-anycast based CDN.<ref>{{cite web |title=CacheFly |url=https://www.cdnplanet.com/cdns/cachefly/ |website=cdnplanet.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref>
| 2005 || || Organization || Medianova launches. It is a leading CDN service provider in {{w|Turkey}}, {{w|Europe}}, {{w|Middle East}} and {{w|Africa}} markets.<ref>{{cite web |title=Medianova |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/medianova#section-overview |website=crunchbase.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2006 || August || Organization || CDN provider {{w|EdgeCast Networks}} (later Verizon Digital Media Services) is founded.<ref>{{cite web |title=EdgeCast Networks |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/edgecast |website=crunchbase.com |accessdate=1 July 2019}}</ref>
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| 2008 || || Product launch || {{w|Amazon CloudFront}} is launched as a CDN that integrates with other Amazon web services.<ref name="The History of Content Delivery Networks (CDN)"/><ref name="Discontent and disruption in the world of content delivery networks"/>
| 2009 || November || Organization || CDN provider {{w|Incapsula}} is founded.<ref>{{cite web |title=Meet Alon Alter: On Growing a Global Cloud Services Business |url=https://www.imperva.com/blog/meet-alon-alter-growing-cloud-services-business/ |website=imperva.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2009 || || Organization || CDN provider MaxCDN is launches launched in {{w|California}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=MaxCDN |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/maxcdn-enterprise |website=crunchbase.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2011 || || Product launch || {{w|AT&T}} announces their new cloud-based Content Delivery Network that enables content to flow from its 38 data centers around the world to reduce transit and latency times.<ref name="The History of Content Delivery Networks (CDN)"/>
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| 2011 || February || Organization || Indian telecommunications company {{w|Tata Communications}} acquires BitGravity, a US-based CDN provider, as part of a strategy to enhance its global CDN.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.livemint.com/Companies/K6ulXvifXcsuHiTCgmmnyK/Tata-Communications-completes-acquisition-of-BitGravity.html|title=Tata Communications completes acquisition of BitGravity - Livemint|website=www.livemint.com|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref>
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| 2011 || March || Organization || American CDN provider {{w|Fastly}} launches.<ref name="Discontent and disruption in the world of content delivery networks"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Fastly Launches Streaming Media Service |url=https://www.fastly.com/press/press-releases/fastly-launches-streaming-media-service |website=fastly.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref>
| 2012 || || Product launch || {{w|JSDelivr}} is initially released. It is a free multi-CDN for open source projects hosted on [[w:npm (software|npm]].<ref>{{cite web |title=jsDelivr |url=https://www.producthunt.com/posts/jsdelivr |website=producthunt.com |accessdate=24 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2012 || || Financial Growth || Akamai’s stock revenue is reported to be US$ 345.32 million.<ref name="The History of Content Delivery Networks (CDN)"/>
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| 2012 || || Financial Growth || {{w|Cisco}} projects Video CDN revenues at around US$ 1 billion with growth for 2013 between 40% and 45%, and the complete market to grow from $6 billion to $12 billion by 2015.<ref name="The History of Content Delivery Networks (CDN)"/>
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| 2013 || Mid-year || Organization || Leaseweb launches its CDN service.<ref>{{cite web |title=Leaseweb |url=https://www.cdnplanet.com/cdns/leaseweb/ |website=cdnplanet.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2013–2019 || || Growth || The {{w|Middle East}} and {{w|Africa}} CDN market is estimated to grow from US$ 0.18 billion to US$ 0.45 billion in the period, while the Brazilian CDN market is estimated to grow from US$ 88.25 million to US$ 192.4 million.<ref name="Content Delivery Network Explained"/>|-| 2015 || April || Organization || CDN provider BaishanCloud is founded.<ref>{{cite web |title=BaishanCloud |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/baishancloud#section-overview |website=crunchbase.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref> It is one of the fastest growing companies in the CDN space.<ref>{{cite web |title=BaishanCloud |url=https://www.cdnplanet.com/cdns/baishancloud/ |website=cdnplanet.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || || Organization || BelugaCDN launches as a pay-as-you-go, low-cost CDN provider.<ref>{{cite web |title=BelugaCDN |url=https://www.cdnplanet.com/cdns/belugacdn/ |website=cdnplanet.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2016 2015 || || Financial Organization || Akamai posts US$ 2American CDN provider {{w|StackPath}} is founded.<ref>{{cite web |title=StackPath Launches Next Generation of Platform and Services |url=https://www.stackpath.3 billion in revenues with a market cap com/press/stackpath-launches-next-generation-of more than $10 billion-platform-and-services/ |website=stackpath.com |accessdate=5 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=StackPath |url=https://www.cdnplanet.com/cdns/stackpath/ |website=cdnplanet.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="Discontent and disruption in the world of content delivery networks"/>
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| 2016 || || Organization Growth || CDN provider {{w|StackPath}} launches.<ref>{{cite web |title=StackPath |url=https://wwwAkamai posts US$ 2.cdnplanet3 billion in revenues with a market cap of more than $10 billion.com/cdns/stackpath/ |website=cdnplanet.com |accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="Discontent and disruption in the world of content delivery networks"/>
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| 2017 || July 20 || Literature || ''Content Delivery Networks: Fundamentals, Design, and Evolution'' by Dom Robinson is published.<ref>{{cite web |title=Content Delivery Networks: Fundamentals, Design, and Evolution |url=https://www.wiley.com/en-ar/Content+Delivery+Networks%3A+Fundamentals%2C+Design%2C+and+Evolution-p-9781119249870 |website=wiley.com |accessdate=1 July 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || || Financial Growth || The CDN market reaches an estimated $7.5 billion dollars.<ref name="Three Ways CDNs Have Changed Since Akamai’s First Content Delivery Network"/> "|-| 2018 || || Growth || The CDN market, estimated is valued at US$5 9.24 billion today, is anticipated to be more than $10 billion by 2019in the year.<ref name="Discontent and disruption in the world of content delivery networksCONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK (CDN) MARKET - GROWTH, TRENDS, AND FORECAST (2019 - 2024)">{{cite web |last1title=Ramsinghani CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK (CDN) MARKET - GROWTH, TRENDS, AND FORECAST (2019 - 2024) |first1url=Mahendra https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/content-delivery-market |website=mordorintelligence.com |titleaccessdate=Discontent 5 July 2019}}</ref>|-| 2018 || January || Expansion || [[w:Verizon Digital Media Services|Verizon]] extends the reach of its CDN to {{w|South Africa}}, {{w|Mexico}}, and disruption in {{w|France}}, now spanning over 56 countries for the world company.<ref>{{cite web |title=Global Content Delivery Network Market 2018 to Boom $29.48 Billion Value by 2023 at a CAGR of content delivery networks 26.1% – Orbis Research |url=https://techcrunchwww.reuters.com/2017/06/01brandfeatures/discontent-and-disruption-in-the-world-of-content-deliveryventure-networkscapital/ article?id=32778 |website=techcrunchreuters.com |accessdate=24 June 5 July 2019}}</ref> |-| 2019|| || Growth || The CDN Market is estimated to grow to US$ 12.16 billion by this year, at a {{w|compound annual growth rate}}(CAGR) of 26.3% from 2014 to 2019.<ref name="Content Delivery Network Explained"/>|-| 2022 || || Growth || The CDN market is expected to surpass US$ 30 billion dollars by this year.<refname="Three Ways CDNs Have Changed Since Akamai’s First Content Delivery Network"/>
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| 2022 2024 || || Financial Growth || The CDN market is expected to surpass reach a value of US$ 30 38.97 billion dollars by this year.<ref name="Three Ways CDNs Have Changed Since Akamai’s First Content Delivery NetworkCONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK (CDN) MARKET - GROWTH, TRENDS, AND FORECAST (2019 - 2024)"/>
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