Varnish Software has partnered with Intel and VMWare to integrate its technology into a new virtualized content delivery network (vCDN) solution, VMWare Telco Cloud.
The new, scalable and Capex friendly solution is a vCDN optimized for live media streaming and gaming, and offers more than 190Gbps network capacity on edge nodes, said the Company.
The joint solutionis aimed at telecoms service providers who want to build their own CDNs. Because they own the networks over which content like streaming video traffic is transmitted, this new approach has several advantages over traditional CDNs.
With exponential growth in content consumption, CDN providers are increasingly being challenged to deliver more content in higher resolution and with a better user experience, while also reducing their costs. Instead of building capacity for peak demand, a more cost-effective, agile approach is to use cloud-native and virtualization technologies to optimize infrastructure and assign resources as needed.
The vCDN leverages the benefits of Varnish’s Edge Cloud solution, with Varnish edge caching nodes offering high throughput as well as TLS termination at high speeds. Varnish also enables storage of 100TB+ at the edge, meaning huge content libraries can be located much closer to users.
With the combination of Varnish Edge Cloud, VMware vSphere and NSX and 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, the solution is proven to deliver 200 Gbps video content with high quality of experience from a single server in a virtualized environment, claims Varnish Software.
Lars Larsson, CEO, Varnish Software
This jointly engineered solution delivers a scalable CDN with higher performance, superior quality, lower costs, and more importantly the agility and manageability required to grow and operate in a fast-paced competitive market.
