Hybrid P2P-CDN Streaming Enables HD Video Delivery

Peer-to-peer technology innovations will take center stage for content delivery. Why? The combination of commercial P2P technology and Content Delivery Networks promises the best of both worlds: scalable yet cost effective media streaming and delivery.

The companies and services that have voted for Hybrid P2P-CDN architecture include:

• Akamai
• BBC iPlayer
• BitTorrent
• Cisco Invests in Hybrid Content Delivery Network, GridNetworks
• Cisco to Distribute Grid Networks P2P Client
• Internap
• Limelight
  
• Pando (P4P)
• Velocix (formerly know as CacheLogic) announces hybrid-P2P live streaming solution
• Verisign
  

Have a look at this interesting panel discussion at Streaming Media West on how P2P is emerging as a critical enabling technology of a video-centric Internet.