The Planet's Content Delivery Network
Web Content Caching
If you have images, files or entire Web sites that need to be available to a global user-base, a Content Delivery Network is a great solution. You gain the benefit of lower origin server bandwidth utilization while improving your end-users’ experience.
Digital Media Delivery / Streaming
The Planet’s Content Delivery Network is designed to make video and audio streaming simple. Our content delivery network offers the latest in streaming technologies from Windows Media and Adobe Flash, as well as Silverlight and Move Networks streaming. You will have access to vital streaming services such as Progressive Download and delivery over HTTP. Most importantly, you greatly expand the number of users who can stream your content without having to increase the number of servers that house your content.
Live Event Streaming
The Planet's live streaming content delivery service allows for both Windows Media and Adobe Flash streaming to be broadcast globally to audiences of a massive scale. Live broadcast quality is top-notch, with no choppiness, broadcast drops, or excessive buffering. The Content Delivery Network distributes the live broadcasts from multiple points of presence, so the end-users will be able to pick up the feed closest to them, delivering the optimal performance for their specific global region and "last-mile" bandwidth provider.
Features
The Media Control Center
At the heart of the content delivery service is the Media Control Center (MCC). Through the MCC customers will be able to interact with various products, get important information, view reports and analytics, upload content, and manage their media.
EdgeDirector
Our EdgeDirector is a patent-pending routing mechanism and global load balancing technology for serving content requests from the location closest to the end user. Traditional content delivery networks use DNS (Domain Name System) routing methods that require multiple levels of DNS triangulation before the content can be served. EdgeDirector combines the robustness of preset routes with proprietary routing protocols to ensure that client content is immediately delivered to the user directly from The Planet Content Delivery Network Point of Presence (POP) fastest for them, regardless of the user’s global location.
Benefits
Speed of Delivery
Content Delivery Network edge servers are deployed around the world, and using EdgeDirector, users will receive their requested content from the fastest point of presence no matter where in the world they are located. This technology is proving to be the most precise traffic router due to the underlying routing logic that makes intelligent decisions based on the users IP address.
Scalability
By using The Planet, customers will have immediate access to hundreds of edge servers located around the world, and dozens of gigabits per second Tier-One bandwidth. Now, special events, traffic bursts, and popular videos are no longer an issue. The Planet infrastructure is available for you 24 by 7 by 365.
Redundancy
Each Planet Point of Presence (POP) is highly redundant residing in some of the world’s most advanced data centers. However, if one POP should fail, other locations will assume the load, providing a seamless user experience. Our Content Delivery Network infrastructure provides you with complete assurance and redundancy in delivering you mission-critical data.
One Price for All Services
Finding the right solution for your business has never been easier. Unlike most other Content Delivery Network providers, The Planet’s Content Delivery Network does not differentiate between caching or streaming content delivery. Additionally, The Planet’s size and scale allows us to offer the services of one of the top content delivery service providers at a very affordable rate.