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It’s all in the network
Limelight Networks entered the CDN industry in 2001 with a vision to deliver a true media-quality Internet experience to an emerging and voracious media-consuming audience. From the beginning, we never asked our CDN customers to settle for less than what their users demanded: Images, web pages, video, music, games, social media, software downloads — all delivered at lightning-fast speeds.
We designed our network architecture for exactly that: to maximize the user experience through high performance and reliable delivery of every object, every time. No matter how challenging your delivery requirements — how large your files or how massive and eclectic your library — our infrastructure can support your business while it’s supporting more than 1300 other businesses. Here’s how.
Massively provisioned delivery centers
Each Limelight Networks Delivery Center houses thousands of servers that do the heavy lifting for your content delivery. Whether your deployment requires one server or two hundred, each distribution center has the capacity for your entire catalog. We don’t force you to choose a subset. And our global footprint means your user’s request can be fulfilled from a nearby center — since your content is most likely close at hand.
Direct connections to access networks
Limelight Networks boasts direct connections to nearly 900 user access networks around the world. And since most of these connections are via superfast 10GigE technology, your content is delivered in the fastest way possible — in most cases, straight to the networks your audiences use every day and bypassing the often-congested public Internet.
Global fiber-optic interconnect
Our dedicated high-speed network spans the globe, interconnecting all of our regional data centers over a fiber-optic backbone. This allows Limelight Networks to deliver the most massive of files. And even the most obscure objects in your library can blast their way to your users at CDN speeds — just as fast as your most popular objects.
Delivering against the four dimensions
Our robust and scalable infrastructure was designed to meet the challenges you face in delivering rich media to today’s Internet users. At Limelight Networks, we see four dimensions of the delivery challenge — and we believe all four must be addressed equally in order to guarantee an unparalleled user experience of online media.
Object size
Users want to seamlessly and consistently download larger objects. A high-resolution photo can be 200 kilobytes; a music track, 10 megabytes; and a half-hour television show, 350 megabytes. And now with HD content, a two-hour movie can weigh in at a massive 15 gigabytes.
Library size
Users are demanding an entire universe of content — all your video, all your music, all your photos — not just a subset. And every day, you have more objects in your library, even as your average object size is increasing.
Audience size
As global Internet access widens to more users and to more devices, your audience is growing exponentially. This means the demand for any item in your library can be greater than ever expected, creating the potential for unrelenting traffic and explosive spikes.
Object popularity
Among your users is a range of unpredictable interests and tastes. You need to be ready for a million audiences of one. And those esoteric and obscure requests for “long-tail” content need to be fulfilled just as quickly as requests for the most popular titles in your library.
When you partner with Limelight Networks, you can trust us to deliver every object in your library to every user, every time. Because we focused on these four dimensions when we designed our network, we can keep this promise to you and to every customer we serve.
Learn how our next-generation architecture combines with Limelight Networks CDN services to help you solve your business problems. 
