PROROUNDTABLE
DRIVING INNOVATION IN
STREAMING
BroadcastPro Middle East, in association with Limelight, recently hosted a roundtable exploring new trends in the streaming market and the role of CDNs in offering a better user experience. We bring you the highlights Research firms offer varying estimates of the growth of the global content delivery network (CDN) market, but all predictions point to a spike in revenues at a CAGR of 14-17% between 2020 and 2025 – for example, Markets and Markets estimates growth from $14.4bn in 2020 to $27.9bn in 2025, a CAGR of 14.1%. The rising need for efficient solutions to enable live and uninterrupted content delivery, the demand for enhanced QoE (quality of experience) and QoS (quality of service), a proliferation of video and rich media over websites, the clamour for enhanced video content and latency-free online gaming experiences, and increasing internet penetration and adoption of mobile
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devices – these have all created huge opportunities for growth and disruption in the CDN space. In this context, BroadcastPro Middle East teamed up with CDN specialist Limelight Networks to host a roundtable with industry experts to unearth some of the trends, challenges and recommended approaches for CDN adoption in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey markets. Charlie Kraus is Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Limelight Networks, overseeing the marketing of online video delivery solutions. He moderated the discussion, with Umut Keten, Senior Architect at Turk Telekom; Faraz Arshad, CTO of StarzPlay; Zareen Mirza, Director of Strategy at Renmore Partners; Emre Usyal, EVP of
