EdgeCast Networks: Now Ranked The #3 CDN: When Yankee Group scored the relevant CDN players last year, we included EdgeCast as a representative example of a large group of small, "premium CDNs" that were all struggling for differentiation. In the intervening year, EdgeCast has succeeded in standing out from that pack, largely through a strategy that has focused on increasing partnerships and indirect sale, while maintaining a strong performance reputation and product portfolio. High-profile partnerships with players including Global Crossing, Deutsche Telekom, NaviSite, Samba Tech and The Planet are valuable as new sources of revenue for EdgeCast. Yet with the thinner margins that an indirect model necessitates, the real value comes in greater visibility for EdgeCast, inroads into strategic accounts that purchase wholesale services from major carriers such as Global Crossing and Deutsche Telekom and a proven partner model that EdgeCast is actively taking out to other prospective channel partners.

Source: Yankee Group Research, Inc., Yankee Group Anywhere Scorecard: Content Delivery Networks, August 2009 © Copyright 1997-2009. Yankee Group Research, Inc. All rights reserved.