Pacnet launched its content delivery network (CDN) service in Tokyo today, with four regional PoPs and a best-of-breed global footprint via its partnership with EdgeCast.
Pacnet CDN, which is available now across all of Pacnet’s locations worldwide, is offering four main service suites: content delivery services, dynamic content acceleration,content origin storage and value added services such as security, management and reporting tools.
Jon Vestal, VP of CDN products, product strategy and management at Pacnet, says the company will be initially targeting “large enterprises, multimedia companies, online download gaming companies and traditional distributors of large content”.
Pacnet has established CDN PoPs in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia, with additional nodes to be added in the coming months that will span ten countries in the Asia Pacific region.
Pacnet is touting its wholly-owned infrastructure as a regional advantage in the CDN space in terms of footprint, speed, reliability, security and a lower cost base.
Also, its partnership with EdgeCast gives Pacnet a global footprint via EdgeCast’s OpenCDN federation, says Vestal.
“That allows us to focus our PoP locations in Asia, which is a market we know and we have the strongest relationships in the network infrastructure, and we can ride on the PoPs of the other federation members for, for lack of a better word, off-net termination into the markets that they know best,” Vestal told telecomasia.net. “So it allows us to build a global footprint that’s best-of-breed, if you will, in each market.”
Pacnet also talked up Japan is a key location in Pacnet's CDN strategy as in Asia, as the Japan CDN PoP is the closest PoP to the US, which makes it “the primary PoP that will accelerate the Internet experience of users in North America who are accessing content from other locations in Asia.”
Pacnet first announced plans to get into the CDN space with its EdgeCast partnership in September this year.
Pacnet is hoping to tap into the CDN market that is being driven in Asia by growing demand for digital content – particularly for video and mobile content – as fixed and mobile broadband penetration continue to grow. The CDN space is projected to be worth over $4 billion globally by 2015, according to Frost & Sullivan, with the video CDN market alone accounting for 44% of that.