The iMEDIA Market Report and Guest Paul Sagan, President of Akamai Technologies Discuss the Acquisition of Speedera Networks.MONTEREY, Calif. -- The iMEDIA Market Report (http://www.imediamarketreport.com) today published a one-on-one 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. interview with guest Paul Sagan, president of Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , conducted by host Paul A. Palumbo, concerning the pending $130 million dollar acquisition of 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. services provider Speedera Networks. Akamai's acquisition of Speedera Networks takes place against the backdrop of a CDN industry exhibiting rapid expansion in both content delivery and client base. Furthermore, it's populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. by a group of young companies posting solid financial gains over the past few years; many are cash flow positive, or generating net income. Mr. Sagan addresses key questions relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the strategic rationale, financial implications, market positioning benefits and account growth prospects for the combined entity post deal closure. In related news, The iMEDIA Market Report is proud to announce that Akamai Technologies is now a sponsor of editorial and analyst commentary on the site. Additional audio segments now available and related to the CDN segment, and to the Speedera acquisition specifically, include in-depth conversations with Troy Snyder Troy Snyder (born November 24, 1965 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is a former U.S. soccer player who is second on the high school career scoring list with 208 goals and 117 assists. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CDN Nine Systems, Phil Kaplan, president and COO of CDN VitalStream and Richard Buck, VP of engineering at CDN Mirror-Image. Matt Feldman, CEO of mobile entertainment publisher and developer Versaly Entertainment also joins the roster of show segments published this week to discuss the company's in-house development, brand licensing and distribution strategy. "We've seen only light M & A activity in the past two years pointing toward consolidation within the CDN arena, despite market growth," noted Paul A. Palumbo. "The difference between this deal and those done in the past, however, is how it unites two strong competitors with healthy businesses who determined that there are now advantages to asset and client integration. "It's a bid to bring increased scale and application functionality to a streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. community clearly in high growth mode. "The CDN segment is notable for the number of companies with unique and proprietary application solutions and bandwidth offerings, which suggests similar asset alignments could inspire consolidation within the segment." AccuStream iMedia Research (http://www.accustreamresearch.com) recently published a CDN Market Share Analysis and Forecasts report for '04 and 05, containing detailed company, market and industry analysis. |
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