Scott Weeks wrote:
There're a lot of players in that space. I used to work for a company called Digital Island that bought Sandpiper to get their Footprint CDN. This was then sold to C&W who then sold it to blah, blah and it finally ended up at Savvis. There were several lawsuits with Akamai (a Hawaiian word for smart, clever or intelligent BTW) in the US about who invented what first. Akamai came out on top from what I heard after leaving the company.
http://www.savvis.net/corp/Products+Services/Content+Delivery+Network/defaul...
thanks for this information.
You should be sure to do the market research before doing anything more than a fun and interesting project.
as I wrote before, I'm just interested in the technology. I don't want to build a CDN for productive use. We're quite happy with our clustered hosting platform.
scott