Apple Rumored Building Its Own CDN, Negotiating Paid Interconnect Deals With ISPs

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Apple Rumored Building Its Own CDN, Negotiating Paid Interconnect Deals With ISPs

By CircleID Reporter
May 20, 2014, 4:04 pm PDT Views: 8,742 Add Comment

Apple has reportedly formed a new internal group to work on building out their own content delivery network (CDN) to deliver Apple software updates, apps and other Apple related content. Dan Rayburn in a blog post today reports: “Apple has been very busy with their build out deploying a lot of boxes running Apache Traffic Server and buying a ton of transit, co-location, wavelengths and other infrastructure services. Their CDN is quickly growing, and it won’t be long before we start seeing a portion of their content getting delivered from their new CDN. As part of their build out, Apple is currently negotiating paid interconnection deals with some of the largest ISPs in the U.S. I’m not going to disclose which ISPs they are talking to and what deals they have already done, but it’s interesting to note that with all the talk lately of net neutrality, peering and interconnect relationships, Apple isn’t out in the market making any complaints.”

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