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.