AccuStream Research: CDN Services Expand to $635 Million in Streaming, Download Revenue in '06.SALINAS Salinas, city, United States Salinas (səlē`nəs), city (1990 pop. 108,777), seat of Monterey co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. It is the shipping and processing center of a fertile valley famous for its grain and lettuce. , Calif. -- Combined commercial market value (backhaul, retail, self-hosting) for streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. , video, advertising, progressive download and download entertainment media generated approximately $635 million in 2006. Media and entertainment, estimated at 40% of the market, is part of a $1.1 billion total retail segment, with an additional $500 million in transit provisioning. Major CDNs grew their total revenue base by an average of 50.8% to $731 million, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the latest report published by AccuStream iMedia Research. Monthly recurring revenue (MRR MRR Model Railroader Magazine MRR Master Resale Rights MRR Maximum Rock'n'Roll (print zine) MRR Material Removal Rate MRR Monthly Recurring Revenue MRR Mean Reciprocal Rank MRR Mark Release Recapture ) rose by 67% to $10,314. Thirteen CDNs analyzed in this report increased total accounts by 25% during the year, ending at 5,800. The report, CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. 2006 - 2007: Market Size, Share, Metrics and Analytics includes gigabytes transferred and 95th percentile analysis modeling for retail contracts delivered by CDNs and for self-hosting networks AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Real, Yahoo and Google. The entire CDN and streaming bandwidth services market is growing at a rate of 33% in 2007. CDN servers in deployment rose by 50%, and streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. servers by 74% in 2006. The average cost per gigabyte of streaming video transferred in 2006 was $1.00, compared to $1.41 in 2005, which included the Flash premium. The average price to deliver a gigabyte of Internet radio was $0.60/gigabyte. Backhaul and UGV UGV Unmanned Ground Vehicle UGV Unattended Ground Vehicle are analyzed on 95th percentile models. Average retail rates ranged from $30 - $115 per Mbps of capacity, lower for wholesale. Research indicates Flash has gained share, and closing in on Windows Media, based on total CDN video gigabytes delivered (including advertising). Flash progressive download experienced strong take up in 2006. Syndication platforms Brightcove, Maven Networks and The Platform support Flash progressive download. The UGV content segment is almost entirely Flash progressive download. Flash servers are not needed for progressive downloads. "It's an exciting time in the CDN segment, as providers deploy and or acquire the scale, intelligent storage, networking and content management systems necessary to position their businesses for another round of broadband media growth," commented Paul A. Palumbo, director of research at AccuStream. AccuStream iMedia Research (http://www.accustreamresearch.com) is a publishing, research and consulting firm that releases streaming, CDN telecom, advertising and download media reports with extensive market data and expert analysis. |
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