All Recent GLG News Analyses by Leading Experts at FROST & SULLIVAN, INC

Dan RayburnPrincipal AnalystFROST & SULLIVAN, INC

NBC Direct To Use P2P Video Delivery From Pando Networks

December 17, 2007

Analysis of:NBC Direct To Use P2P Video Delivery From Pando Networks | blog.streamingmedia.com

In September, NBC announced that come this fall they would launch a new service, named NBC Direct, that would enable viewers to watch some of NBC's top TV shows as ad-supported downloads. While NBC plans to use many platforms to make their content available including iTunes, the move by NBC is essentially driven by the desire to cut out the middle man and deal directly with the viewer.

Dan RayburnPrincipal AnalystFROST & SULLIVAN, INC

VeriSign Expected To Sell Their CDN Business

December 17, 2007

Analysis of:VeriSign Expected To Sell Their CDN Business | blog.streamingmedia.com

A few weeks ago, VeriSign held they annual analyst day where they unveiled new details about the company's strategic direction for 2008. Their newly announced strategy is to sell a number of businesses in the company's portfolio, such as communications, billing and commerce and focus instead on their core business and a smaller group of products and services.

Dan RayburnPrincipal AnalystFROST & SULLIVAN, INC

Adobe's New Flash Server Pricing Improves CDNs P&L, Lowers License Fee For Customers

December 17, 2007

Analysis of:Adobe's New Flash Server Pricing Improves CDNs P&L, Lowers License Fee For Customers | blog.streamingmedia.com

While Adobe has gotten a lot of traction in the market with their Flash video platform, many content companies have not adopted Flash streaming due to the server license costs or the license fee that CDNs are required to charge for Flash streaming. With today's announcement by Adobe of Flash Media Server 3 and the new Flash Media Interactive Server, those licensing costs have now been drastically reduced.

Dan RayburnPrincipal AnalystFROST & SULLIVAN, INC

Adobe Launches New Websites Showcasing HD Video Content

December 17, 2007

Analysis of:Adobe Launches New Websites Showcasing HD Video Content | blog.streamingmedia.com

Last week, Adobe quietly launched two new HD websites that showcases content in HD quality using the Flash platform. The launch of the sites also coincided with the launch of a new product section at the top of the main Adobe.com website. Different images and products are highlighted each time you load the page and one of them promotes "The fusion of TV and the Internet" and links to a site I had not seen until now at adobe.com/flashon. The flashon site contains movie trailers from some of the major studios as well as some other content. It's been a busy week for Adobe and they have really increased the volume of HD quality content for demonstration on their websites.

Dan RayburnPrincipal AnalystFROST & SULLIVAN, INC

Content Delivery Pricing: Understanding CDN Overages

December 17, 2007

Analysis of:Content Delivery Pricing: Understanding CDN Overages | blog.streamingmedia.com

I’ve seen numerous reports lately by some in the financial community talking to “bursting” overages by CDN providers. Many of these references talk to overages incorrectly and some analysts might benefit from better understanding the two different ways CDNs charge for their services and exactly how “bursting” fees play into a CDNs bottom line.

Dan RayburnPrincipal AnalystFROST & SULLIVAN, INC

CDN Pricing Data: Average Cost Per GB Declines In Q4 Due To Startups

December 12, 2007

Analysis of:CDN Pricing Data: Average Cost Per GB Declines In Q4 Due To Startups | blog.streamingmedia.com

With all the talk in the market about the"pricing wars" taking place in the CDN industry, each quarter I review what the average going rate is and how it compares to pricing in the previous quarter. (Q3 pricing details here) The pricing data below is from my presentation last week at the Streaming Media West show entitled "CDN Pricing: Costs for Outsourced Video Delivery". The on-demand video of the presentation will be available shortly.

Dan RayburnPrincipal AnalystFROST & SULLIVAN, INC

How Is CDNs Network Performance For Streaming Measured?

August 17, 2007

Analysis of:A new contender in Web content delivery | www.latimes.com

No matter how big or small a content delivery network is, they all talk about the performance of their network. Small regional service providers, global CDNs, P2P providers etc... all market the value in everything they do regarding how good their network performs. The problem is, the more customers I ask, the more of them say they don't know how to compare one network to another for video streaming - and neither do I.

Dan RayburnPrincipal AnalystFROST & SULLIVAN, INC

MSNBC.com Needs To Dump MSN's Lousy Video Platform

August 2, 2007

Analysis of:Msnbc.com Launches Online Advertising Network | money.cnn.com

I first wrote about this back in March and I am amazed that even since then, MSNBC.com still can't get it's live video streaming to work for anyone with a Firefox or Safari browser. And the worst part, they have no problem delivering you a 15 second ad in the player first, BEFORE they tell you that your browser does not currently support live video. So I have to sit through a video ad only to then be told that I can't see the live stream I clicked on.

Dan RayburnPrincipal AnalystFROST & SULLIVAN, INC

Google And I Agree On One Thing: TV Is Not Dead

August 2, 2007

Analysis of:TV Is Not Dead Yet | www.imediaconnection.com

It's good to see that I am not the only one who thinks people are crazy when they say that TV is dead. TV is not dead. People kept telling me they don't watch TV anymore and only use their computer for video. What are they watching?

Dan RayburnPrincipal AnalystFROST & SULLIVAN, INC

Internap Is Not The Next Akamai

July 31, 2007

Analysis of:Internap May Be the Next Akamai | internet.seekingalpha.com

In an article on Barron's website this week, which Seeking Alpha has an annotated article summary of by Judy Weil, Mark Vererka says that Internap may be the next Akamai. No offense to Internap, but that's an absurd statement for anyone to make. As you'll see below when it comes purely to revenue, numbers don't lie.

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