New NetsEdge Research Group Publishes
2001 Content Distribution Market Share
New Research From NetsEdge Research Group
Details Content Distribution Networking Market Share
Los Altos, Calif., January 22, 2002 –
NetsEdge Research Group (NRG) today released the 2001 CDN market share
results as part of its latest research effort, The 2002 Content
Distribution At The Edge report. The past year saw CDN revenues double
to $200M in 2001.
Web-based content distribution has gone
through a dramatic evolution over the past four years. At this time in 1998,
the Akamai service was only an idea. Now, four years later, there are over a
dozen CDN providers with about 3,000 customers spending more than $16M
monthly. "Last year, CDN service revenues managed to double, despite the
bursting of the .COM bubble, the crash in bandwidth prices, and the overall
economic malaise," said John Katsaros, principal and co-founder at NetsEdge
Research Group. "That very real growth in the face of significant adversity
clearly validates the role of CDNs and performance optimization in general
in the overall Internet economy."
The market share numbers are contained in
the CDN Market Size and Share report which has been published on
NRG’s Web site. Akamai with more than 80% share and Digital Island with 10%
lead the pack, which also includes Mirror-Image, AT&T and Speedera. This
study provides a table showing overall market sizing and includes an
analysis of the factors contributing to the overall growth in the CDN
market.
An abstract of this study is
also available by clicking here. The full report, The 2002 Content Distribution At The Edge
Report, will be published for service clients in February.
About NetsEdge Research Group
NetsEdge Research Group provides marketing and strategy
research reports and consulting services, specializing in areas related to
Internet infrastructure. NetsEdge offerings combine the formidable and
unique experience and perspective of the two principals: John Katsaros and
Peter Christy. NRG’s mission is to help major Internet technology vendors
and market-leading startups make faster and better decisions about their
product, market entry, and market development strategies. NRG provides
technical product and market analyses, develops authoritative reports on
specific markets, and creates white papers and other information products.
NRG’s consulting practice helps companies develop successful market entry
and development strategies for new products in early adopter markets.
Editor’s note:
Peter Christy and John Katsaros are always available to provide quotes or
references for articles related to Internet acceleration, content delivery
and distribution, caching, or Internet traffic management. For further
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