The Giants are in the CDN market, where is the advantage?

March 30 News, after the Aliyun CDN from the internal business evolved into the provision of cloud business CDN Public services, Tencent Cloud also released a CDN 2.0 version, will be fully open for eight years, supporting billion users Tencent Self-built CDN. At this point, in the CDN market, has been squeezed under the telecommunications operators, internet giants and third party specialist network technology and blue Flood communications, and the giants of the extension of business is the most important to the preconceived third party companies.

 

The
CDN (content IBuySpy receptacle) is a distributed network of distributed node servers. By adding a new layer of network architecture to the existing Internet, deploying the Edge server, publishing the content of the website to the cache server closest to the user, so that the user can obtain the required content near the nearest user, and effectively improve the response speed of the website.


 


is like before buying train tickets to the railway station, one day your home more than a train ticket sales point, you can not go to the railway station, the nearest purchase, shorten the time to buy tickets.


 


in the domestic CDN market, the earliest layout of the network technology and blue flood communication accounted for more than 80% of the market share, the two companies are with the development of the domestic CDN market. Due to the network differentiation between Netcom and Telecom, it was born as the intermediary of the network technology and blue Flood communication, their CDN business, access to the major operators of the network bottlenecks, so that different operators users can access to different carrier servers, fast access to content services.


 


like domestic portal sites are using CDN Network acceleration Technology, although the site's visit is huge, but no matter where the visit will feel very quickly, and the general Web site if the server in Netcom, the telecommunications user access is very slow, if the server in telecommunications, Netcom user access is very slow.


 


for the internet giants, because of the large number of business, traffic and technical reserves mature, out of saving money and improve the quality of service will almost always choose to build a CDN.


 


Aliyun CDN predecessor is Taobao CDN, and Tencent since built CDN also has eight years time, business acceleration platform including static content platform, game download platform, UGC accelerated platform, streaming media platform, dynamic acceleration platform, etc., service QQ, QQ space, micro-letter, Tencent Video, QQ music, Tencent games, such as Tencent Company proprietary business.


 


tecent Cloud CDN Senior Product manager Wang Yu said, the earliest time Tencent was used by third-party vendors of the CDN, with the development of Tencent business, only to find that the services provided by the third party is not flexible, including the cost and quality is not enough to meet the needs of Tencent, so from 2007 onwards we do CDN this thing.


 


China CDN Utilization Rate is only 10%, the market space is huge


 


according to Informa Telecoms&media, UK, with the growth of OTT, mobile video and cloud services, the CDN market will grow rapidly in the next few years, and by 2017 the global CDN Business Services expected to be 4.63 billion dollars.


 


in China, with the popularity of mobile internet, the convenience of intelligent equipment, each person in fact, at least two to three kinds of network between the switch, the flow of unprecedented demand, while the video business is ushering in an explosion of growth, and video business will be the main growth point of CDN Market.


 


Tencent Gicey said that the entire global Cdn's market capitalisation in the next 6 billion U.S. dollars, the United States and South Korea CDN's coverage and utilization rate is close to 80%, China's use rate is only 10%, indicating that the Chinese market space is very huge.


 


for China's vast market, whether it is the internet giants or telecoms operators do not want to miss. At the end of 2013, China Telecom Cloud Computing Branch officially launched the cloud to accelerate CDN products, into the CDN market, then Aliyun launched CDN Services, Tencent Cloud in the experience of the internal business after the baptism is now open to the outside.


 

What are the advantages of the
giants?


 


Last October, a former senior China Telecom disclosed that China Telecom and Unicom would jointly fund a CDN company, and the newly established company would be operated by China Telecom Cloud Computing branch.


 


If cooperation becomes true, South Telecom, North China Unicom's pattern will be broken, the Chinese telecom's CDN service can cover the whole country completely, solves the ' trans-net ' problem, the telecommunication operator also can make its pipeline service superiority to play to be biggest, thus will put the pressure to the network technology and the Blue flood communication.


 


March 2014, Aliyun announced the development of overseas markets, the CDN platform is officially commercial, while the statement will be to the Amazon and its Chinese allies formally declared war. Aliyun originally for the day cat, Taobao, such as huge flow of Web sites to provide CDN support, in the world to build up hundreds of high-quality nodes and bandwidth resources. This may be their biggest advantage compared to the traditional CDN service providers.


 


Tencent Cloud CDN access to the first business is Tencent Network, and then began to match the game, QQ Farm, video, Tencent Cloud CDN Development and Tencent Business development is very closely combined, with Wang Yu words, this way all the development is through practice exercise out.


 


now micro-letter is Tencent's most important, micro-letter all the acceleration is using Tencent Cloud CDN, Wang Yu said, all can accelerate the point we actually will do the ultimate.


 


"Tencent QQ month active is more than 800 million, micro-letter month active is more than 500 million, Tencent's two social platforms can cover all Chinese netizens, this I think is now Tencent at the technical level to accumulate the deepest point. "Tencent Cloud CDN Responsible person answer Gicey said," Each user each time the network operation speed, the quality, the access rate, actually can help us to study the Chinese characteristic net which link is fast, which link is slow. ”


 


This is the equivalent of Tencent knows all the links in the country unobstructed degree. At present, Tencent Cloud Cdn has more than 100 regions in the world, the construction of more than 400 nodes, the total bandwidth of more than 10Tb, to ensure that users no matter in any region, in what kind of network environment, can be in the nearest node, near to obtain data.


 


In the era of fixed network, traditional CDN vendors use caching technology to put data to the edge server, thus obtaining stable information and guaranteed speed. However, after entering the mobile internet era, the location of user access to information, bandwidth requirements and so became unknown, and this is precisely Tencent's strengths.


 


and Aliyun and Tencent cloud into this market, the future is likely to do on the price foot article, this for a single CDN manufacturers, will face a lot of pressure, expanding business is imperative.


 


But there are different views, Liu Hongtao, vice president of Internet technology, said that the entry of operators and the big web could make the whole cake bigger. For example, Aliyun into CDN, let CDN platform cake become bigger. Because the Ali platform covers a large number of small micro-customers, these small micro-customers in the future may become a CDN's big customers or target customers. This is a complementary to the entire CDN market.


 


Some people said that the real intention of operators to enter CDN is to seize the cloud service portal, which is the important fulcrum of its transition internet companies. Then, as an extension of the Internet giants cloud services, CDN service providers play a "cyber traffic police" identity, may be more attractive.