Limelight Networks Announces Significant Enhancements to Award-winning Solution for Media and Broadcasters

Content Delivery Network (CDN) Leader Optimizes Cloud-based Workflow by Further Simplifying the Storage, Delivery, and Management of Video Content

TEMPE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

Limelight Networks, Inc. (“Limelight”)(NASDAQ:LLNW, news, filings), a global leader in digital content delivery, today announced significant enhancements that simplify the delivery of video content with the Limelight Orchestrate^TM Solution for Media and Broadcasters. This cloud-based, integrated end-to-end workflow solution makes it easy for organizations to manage, publish, and deliver live and on-demand video content. The new features enable better control of cached content, improve performance of long-tail content, convert live content automatically to popular mobile formats, and ensure uptime and availability of video delivery websites.

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“In our OTT business, it’s essential that our vast video library is available on every connected device, with broadcast quality, and to customers around the world,” said Stefano Flamia, chief technology officer at Chili. “Limelight gives us the broadcast quality, reliability, scalability and global reach that we need to drive our business growth.”

Limelight’s SmartPurge capability is “best in class” in the industry. It purges content across Limelight’s global network in near real-time. Limelight can remove unwanted content from the global CDN within seconds, making it inaccessible, and provide customers with detailed reports to verify that content was removed from cache. Recently, a customer purged over 2.6 million objects across Limelight’s global CDN in five seconds and in 25 seconds had a detailed report of what was purged.

MediaMover simplifies migration of origin content to Limelight’s cloud storage and enables customers to choose between either transparent or directed file ingest. In the transparent method, cache misses on URLs trigger automatic copying of content to Orchestrate Storage. In the directed method, customers can provide Limelight a manifest of a library of content and, when resources and time permit, files are copied to cloud storage passively — without human intervention — putting control in the hands of the customer.

To ensure live content is mobile ready and viewable when, where and how viewers want it, device detection with secure automatic transcoding to all popular formats, including MPEG-DASH, is now available.

Additionally, Limelight’s DDoS Attack Interceptor provides multiple lines of defense to protect customers – proactive notification in the event of an attack, traffic scrubbing and protection from unplanned costs due to traffic spikes.

Together, these new features result in a powerful and optimized workflow for live broadcasters, OTT providers, Video-on-Demand providers and corporate producers of video content.

“We have made it even easier for media and broadcasting companies to deliver the highest quality of experience for live and on-demand video to any device anywhere,” said Nigel Burmeister, vice president of marketing at Limelight. “Now quickly purging unwanted content, converting files and migrating data are no longer complex and time-consuming.”

In summary, key functionalities of the Limelight Orchestrate solution for Media and Broadcasters now include:

• SmartPurge: Real-time purge makes content inaccessible globally even as it is being deleted from caches, accurately purging unwanted content from the global CDN within seconds.
• Multi-Device Media Delivery (MMD) Live: Stream live media to multiple device platforms simultaneously. Limelight automatically transcodes or transmuxes digital content depending on the requesting device.
• MediaMover: Regardless of library or file size, easily and efficiently migrate origin content to Limelight’s cloud storage. By storing popular assets in Orchestrate storage, media and broadcaster organizations can protect their origin from request spikes and improve the performance on cache miss through CDN-accelerated retrieval from cloud storage. Available later in 2015.
• DDoS Attack Interceptor: Detects and mitigates network and application layer DDoS attacks.
• Automatic Transcoding: Ensures live content is mobile-ready and viewable when, where and how viewers want it. MPEG-DASH is now supported along with all popular formats.

More details about the Limelight Orchestrate for Media and Broadcasters are available here.

About Limelight

Limelight Networks Inc., (LLNW), a global leader in digital content delivery, empowers customers to better engage online audiences by enabling them to securely manage and globally deliver digital content, on any device. The company’s award winning Limelight Orchestrate™ platform includes an integrated suite of content delivery technology and services that helps organizations secure digital content, deliver exceptional multi-screen experiences, improve brand awareness, drive revenue, and enhance customer relationships — all while reducing costs. For more information, please visit www.limelight.com, read our blog, follow us on Twitter , Facebook and LinkedIn and be sure to visit Limelight Connect.

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