When Over-the-Top Companies Outgrow Their Network Provider

Web-based service providers in this type of situation can benefit greatly from being in a data center with a rich ecosystem of service providers. Having dark fiber, peering exchange, and consumer network POPs available with a simple cross-connect simplifies operations a great deal. What’s more, reducing vendor interaction to the physical level as much as possible maximizes performance.

In this paper, we discuss how a private network can benefit web-based service providers. Topics we cover in this white paper include:

• Specific network requirements
• Transport infrastructure
• Transport network overlays
• IP network overlays
• Content delivery networks