With some new business from online gaming company Nexon America, peer-to-peer (P2P) technology firm Pando Networks Inc. is showing how it can help deliver downloads faster and cheaper than through traditional content delivery networks (CDNs).
Pando announced today that its P2P technology is being used to accelerate the delivery and lower the cost of downloads for Nexon's massively multiplayer online role-player games (MMORPGs).
By using a mix of CDN servers and peer nodes, Pando CEO Robert Levitan says that Nexon was able to increase the completion rates of its downloads by more than 10 percent when compared with using traditional CDN services.
At the same time, the company was able to substantially reduce its costs for CDN delivery. Levitan estimates that by implementing Pando's P2P "Content Delivery Cloud," Nexon has been able to offload about 80 percent of its traffic from its CDN partners.
That's bad news for Akamai Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) and CDNetworks Co. Ltd. , both of which have been named as CDN providers for the gaming company... >>
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