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Could you elaborate why the CDN market is collapsing? Genuinely interested.

• moe 14y ago
  Collapsing in the sense that prices have been in free fall for a while. Akamai sees their market shrink from both ends. At the top-end companies like Netflix start building their own networks because they want more control, less reliance on a third-party, and the cost savings. At the low-end you have pseudo-CDNs like Cloudflare eat into their snake-oil business, and commodity-CDNs like Cloudfront grab the longtail. Connectivity in US/EU has also gotten so good on average (and bandwidth so cheap) that the body of mid-range sites that feel a genuine need to enter an expensive conversation with a "traditional" CDN is evaporating. And this is doubly true for Akamai where that conversation tends to be particularly unpleasant. Akamai and friends are of course well aware and have long shifted their focus to the emerging markets (asia, africa) and mobile. Time will tell for how long that can keep them afloat before they are marginalized.
• induscreep 14y ago
  Probably because Amazon entered the game...