Partnerships and CDN Certification

3Crowd partners with many CDNs, cloud providers and hosting providers, and other content delivery resources to ensure interoperability. 3Crowd partners are recommended to customers based on a customer's unique set of requirements.

3Crowd is also establishing a certification program to help delivery networks (CDNs) differentiate their services through integration with 3Crowd's CrowdDirector platform.

3Crowd certification will help CDNs compete for a greater slice of content delivery business by becoming an accredited member of the partner resources leveraged by CrowdDirector to help publishers improve content delivery worldwide.

CDN certification qualification is assessed on the technical criteria which includes the following:

• Performance and bandwidth utilization
• Implementation of security features including URL signing/tokenized URLs, token authentication and blocking parameters
• Rich media delivery capabilities including HTTP seeking/progressive downloading and HTML5

For more information on CDN Certification, please contact marketing@3crowd.com.

The following is a list of 3Crowd partners and those in the CDN certification program:

EdgeCast

www.edgecast.com

Delivering any data, anywhere, anytime, EdgeCast is the world's fastest and most reliable content delivery network.

The EdgeCast network interconnects with more than 950 user networks around the world, allowing content to be delivered from servers closest to the end user, and often completely bypassing the congested public internet. The end result is a dramatic improvement in quality, performance, and user experience, regardless of end user location. 

Independent testing consistently ranks EdgeCast among the best-performing CDNs in the industry.

Highwinds

www.highwinds.com

Highwinds is a content delivery, network and IP services business that offers a comprehensive suite of solutions including colocation, CDN, IP transit, transport, peering, content storage and IP software. The company delivers content and rich media over its high-performance RollingThunder® network to millions of global users every day.  Highwinds’ CDN customers gain unprecedented command and control with its StrikeTracker® console and open APIs. Highwinds is headquartered in Winter Park, Fla., and maintains data centers around the world. For more information, visit www.highwinds.com.

CDNetworks

www.us.cdnetworks.com

CDNetworks is the highest performing global content delivery network (CDN), providing unparalleled speed and reliability of website content and application delivery anywhere in the world. Our commitment to cloud-based network performance and superior customer support set us apart from all other CDNs. That is why more than 1,100 companies across industries, including gaming, high tech, manufacturing, media, retail and software rely on CDNetworks to delight their website users while minimizing content and application delivery costs. With more than 100 points of presence across 5 continents, including numerous PoPs in China, CDNetworks helps our customers get closer to their end users. Founded in 2000, CDNetworks has offices in the U.S., Korea, China, Europe, and Japan. For more information, please visit: www.us.cdnetworks.com

Velocix

www.velocix.com

Velocix is a world leading provider of Digital Media Delivery Platforms, a new generation CDN (Content Delivery Network) infrastructure solution for network service providers, designed to meet the rich media needs of the 21st century Internet.

Velocix offers service providers one of the broadest and most innovative ranges of content delivery technologies in the industry, tailored specifically to delivering large media files that will continue to be the driving factor behind the exponential growth in consumer IP traffic.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, Velocix was founded in 2002 in Cambridge, UK and is a leading authority and innovator in the field of digital content delivery over the Internet. The company has a proven track record of bringing unique and exciting technologies to market that provide intelligent digital media delivery, in particular for large multi-GB media assets.

For more information please see www.velocix.com

For details on the 3Crowd Velocix alliance please see www.velocix.com/alliances