Limelight Networks offers the Limelight Video Platform, which gives you flexible tools to publish, manage, analyze, and monetize your video content. You can manage your entire online video workflow with Limelight or just the parts you need. It includes sophisticated metadata management, integration with your existing CMS, analytics, in-video search, and support for free, subscription, and ad-supported videos.
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Limelight Networks has brought true innovation to the core of the CDN market. Limelight DELIVER XD and Limelight CONTROL XD harness the power of our global network platform to make real-time decisions about delivery based on the unique characteristics of each request. Through these new services, Limelight can enable content publishers to meet the growing need for high-performance global delivery and for actionable information to tune an online business,”
Limelight DELIVER XD is a next-generation, high-performance delivery service that leverages the Adaptive Intelligence technologies that are part of the new XD Platform. Adaptive Intelligence enables the Limelight DELIVER XD service to provide the best possible user experience under any circumstance, by surveying last mile conditions on a request-by-request basis and then tuning origin, cache, and delivery subsystems on-the-spot. This end-to-end customized approach differs from other delivery services that focus only on identifying the server best positioned to deliver content.
Limelight DELIVER XD offers shorter start-to-finish delivery times, provides massive scalability to handle peak loads and flash crowds, and provides more consistent performance regardless of geography, user network capacity or Internet conditions. This means customers will be able to increase conversion rates, lengthen viewing or gaming times and provide higher-quality end-user experiences for video, music, games, social media, software, and entire websites.
LimelightCONTROL is a new, advanced management and reporting suite that enables customers to exercise more control over their content delivery service. This new service suite replaces the former LimelightEXCHANGE portal and includes an upgraded user interface; enhanced reporting that includes real-time data on Internet conditions, granular control over storage utilization, and more.
The flagship service, LimelightCONTROL XD, offers advanced management applications that help to increase efficiency, reduce expenses, improve the user experience, and provide deep insight into performance of an online business. The service includes customer provisioning of services, custom control over CDN storage options, and the innovative Internet Health Monitor which provides customers with insight into potential sources of end user experience issues, collected in real-time by millions of globally distributed user agents that are part of the XD Platform.
Limelight has provided its customers with the high-speed services they demanded, never asking them to settle for anything less. The Limelight network makes use of Adaptive Intelligence software and brilliant network innovations down to each individual request for content – enabling each delivery to be as distinct as the request. The Adaptive Intelligence software offers a clear benefit: a superior, more responsive online experience utilizing Dynamic Origin, Custom Cache Hierarchies, Protocol Maximization, and real-time data offering detailed insight into the user experience.
Bypassing the frequently congested public Internet, Limelight maintains 589 last-mile networks around the world with most connections through high-speed 10-gigabit Ethernet lines. Through their global network, your content is delivered in the fastest possible way. With technologies like IPv6 and MPLS, your organizations content delivery is ready for the future.
The front-runner of Limelight technology is their cloud-based Orchestrate platform. Orchestrate provides you with the tools you need to create, deliver, manage, and optimize every aspect of your web presence. Limelight’s Orchestrate runs off the four principles of Show It, Tell It, Every Way, and Every Where. Maintaining a web presence seems to require a constant effort – words and pictures only get you so far and Limelight provides engaging media that drives communication and interaction. The eruption of social media has changed end-users expectations and perceptions of the sites they visit. In order to avoid your sites becoming a graveyard of dated pictures and text,
Orchestrate allows you to build a story of your products, your company, and your brand that actively pulls in customers enticing them rather than having them sit back and listen. In today’s world, “Static content is dead content” is a motto to live by and Orchestrate allows you to easily maintain an ever changing and engaging presence. Whether it’s a laptop, tablet, or smartphone, next door, or across the world, Limelight makes sure your content is deliverable to those attempting access.
Although they still maintain a spot among the top providers in content delivery networking, Limelight now offers a wide array of other top-notch services all offering monumental benefits for your business.
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