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Faster than the speed of Limelight

October 17, 2008 — 4:46pm ET | By Pete Wylie

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Limelight Networks announced it can now deliver broadcast quantity streams across its network. Its global content delivery capacity now exceeds two terabits a second, which it says translates to delivering broadcast quality streams to two million users simultaneously.

Advances in content delivery like this announcement highlight the increasing ability for online video to be a major player in breaking news and broadcasting live events to large audiences. Once online video can mimic or surpass the quality achieved by broadcast events, widespread migration to online content delivery could be swift.

Limelight achieves its delivery speeds by positioning huge amounts of content at the edges of nearly 900 last-mile networks, putting content through fewer gateways before it is delivered. It was a major partner in the delivery of millions of online video streams during the Beijing Olympic Games.

For more:
- see the Limelight release here