Timeline of content delivery networks

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This is a timeline of content delivery networks.

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Time period Development summary
1990s "The original content delivery network was conceived in the late 1990s, a few short years after Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web. "[1] "Content Delivery Networks began to be devised as the World Wide Web (WWW) exploded in popularity during the 1990s. Technical leaders realized that the internet could not handle the rapidly increasing level of network traffic without more intelligent methods for managing the flow of data."[2] "The first generation CDNs were not encountered before the late 90’s. However, some technological innovations that preceded this generation of CDNs, such as server farms, hierarchical caching, caching proxy deployment and so on, were crucial for paving the ground of the desired infrastructure of such internet un-clogging technology."[3]
2010s "CDNs have gone from hundreds of megabits per second to tens of terabits per second, in terms of capacity, and from millions to billions to trillions of transactions and requests per day."[1]

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Year Month and date Event type Details
1998 "Founded in 1998, Akamai Technologies was the first company to build a large-scale business around CDNs. "[2]
1998 Organization ChinaCache launches. It is the first CDN provider in China.[4]
1999 Organization Speedera Networks is founded. By 2008, it would be the largest CDN in Asia and the third largest CDN in the world after Akamai and Limelight Networks.[5]
1999 Akamai launches its first commercial product.[1]
1999 December Akamai reaches an annual revenue of almost US$ 4 million and the company manages 3,000 servers across the globe.[1]
1990s The Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) is developed[6][7] to provide an open standard for connecting application servers.[8]
2000 Organization CDN service provider CDNetworks is founded.[9]
2001 September "9/11 Terrorist attack: a sudden, unanticipated mass of Internet users tried to access the particular news site, simultaneously. This caused severe caching problems, and finally more money invested in developing CDN hosting to provide protection from the flash crowds for the websites"[3]
2001 "Akamai Technologies evolved out of an MIT research effort aimed at solving the flash crowd problem"[3]
2001 " Limelight Networks was a fast-follower to Akamai and was launched in 2001"[10]
2001 "Broadband Services Forum (BSF), ICAP forum, Internet Streaming Media Alliance organizations all took initiatives to develop standards for delivering broadband content, streaming rich media content – video, audio, and associated data – over the Internet"[3]
2001 July 1 Organization Limelight Networks is founded.[11]
2002 Organization CDN provider CacheFly is founded. It would develop the world's first TCP-anycast based CDN.[12]
2002 Organization American CDN provider Imperva launches.[13]
2002 "By 2002, large-scale ISPs started building their own CDN functionality, providing customized services"[3]
2004 "In 2004, more than 3000 companies were found to use CDNs, spending more than $20 million monthly"[3]
2004 Coral Content Distribution Network is initially released.[10]
2005 "In 2005, CDN revenue for both streaming video and Internet radio was estimated to grow at 40%"[3]
2005 "Combined commercial market value for streaming audio, video, streaming audio and video advertising, download media and entertainment was estimated at between $385 million to $452 million in 2005"[3]
2006 August Organization EdgeCast Networks is founded.
2008 Amazon CloudFront is launched as a CDN that integrates with other Amazon web services.[3][10]
2009 July Organization Cloudflare launches and starts offering content delivery, security and analytics.[10]
2009 November Incapsula is founded.
2009 Organization CDN provider MaxCDN is launches in California.[14]
2011 "In 2011 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"[3]
2011 February 15 Organization Australian cloud-based CDN company MetaCDN is founded.[15]
2011 May "In May 2011, Google said it had 200,000 active applications and 100,000 active developers."[3]
2011 "The stocks of leading CDN market players (Akamai, Limelight, EdgeCast) slumped; Akamai’s total revenue for 2011 was $1,159 million, a 13% increase over 2010 revenue of $1,024 million"[3]
2011 March Organization American CDN provider Fastly launches.[10][16]
2011 October 1 CDN77.com launches. It has 30 data centers available on five continents.[17][18]
2012 BootstrapCDN} is initially released.
2012 Organization CDN provider Kingsoft Cloud is founded.[19]
2012 JSDelivr is initially released. It is a free multi-CDN for open source projects hosted on npm.[20]
2012 "Akamai’s stock revenue for 2012 is reported to be $345.32 million"[3]
2012 "Cisco projected 2012 Video CDN revenues at around $1 billion with growth for 2013 between 40% and 45%, and the complete market to grow from $6 billion to $12 billion by 2015."[3]
2015 April Organization BaishanCloud is founded.[21] It is one of the fastest growing companies in the CDN space.[22]
2015 "StackPath"[10]
2015 Organization BelugaCDN launches as a pay-as-you-go, low-cost CDN provider.[23]
2016 " In 2016, Akamai posted $2.3 billion in revenues with a market cap of more than $10 billion."[10]
2017 "CDN market is $7.5 billion dollars as of 2017"[1] "The CDN market, estimated at $5 billion today, is anticipated to be more than $10 billion by 2019. "[10]
2022 The CDN market is expected to surpass US$ 30 billion dollars by this year.[1]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Three Ways CDNs Have Changed Since Akamai's First Content Delivery Network". medium.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Content Delivery and Distribution Networks (CDN)". lifewire.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019. 
  3. 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 "The History of Content Delivery Networks (CDN)". globaldots.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019. 
  4. "ChinaCache". cdnplanet.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019. 
  5. "Who Is CDNetworks?". networkworld.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019. 
  6. Template:IETF RFC Elson, J., Cerpa, A.: "Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP)," April 2003.
  7. ICAP Forum
  8. "Content Delivery Network (CDN)". firstsiteguide.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019. 
  9. "Who Is CDNetworks?". networkworld.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019. 
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 Ramsinghani, Mahendra. "Discontent and disruption in the world of content delivery networks". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019. 
  11. "Limelight Networks". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019. 
  12. "CacheFly". cdnplanet.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019. 
  13. "Imperva". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019. 
  14. "MaxCDN". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019. 
  15. "MetaCDN". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019. 
  16. "Fastly Launches Streaming Media Service". fastly.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019. 
  17. "CDN77.com". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019. 
  18. "13 content delivery networks to speed up your website". mashable.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019. 
  19. "Kingsoft Cloud". cdnplanet.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019. 
  20. "jsDelivr". producthunt.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019. 
  21. "BaishanCloud". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019. 
  22. "BaishanCloud". cdnplanet.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019. 
  23. "BelugaCDN". cdnplanet.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019.