Carrier Activities in the CDN Market: an Exploratory Analysis and Strategic Implications
ISBN
978-1-4244-7445-5
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2010-10-11
Author(s)
Abstract
The commercial structure of the Internet is changing. Content delivery networks (CDN) are becoming potent players in the bandwidth market and are responsible for an ever growing fraction of total Internet traffic. Carriers on the other hand are looking for strategies to escape the “dumb pipe” scenario and are increasingly seeing added value services as a way out. Several Tier-1 carriers are expanding their business models into content delivery which appears as a natural extension of their core business in an upstream direction. In this paper, the trend is discussed based on case examples. Resource based view is applied to provide economic reasoning.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks (ICIN)
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Publisher place
Piscataway
Start page
1
Event Title
14th International Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks (ICIN) 2010
Event Location
Berlin
Event Date
11.-14.10.2010
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
226688