CDN Market Share: A Complete Streaming Media Business Segment Analysis 2004 - 2005

The CDN business segment grew at robust rates in 2004, and forecast to do so again in 2005. The increase in streaming media usage, audience size, high-value content published by larger Internet and major media brands, and broadband penetration has also broadened the scope of services and applications CDNs now offer. The 150 page, data rich report's top line findings include:

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  Total retail bandwidth contracts to delivery Internet music radio and streaming video ranged between $117 and $235 million dollars in 2004

  
  


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  Total bandwidth fees associated with streaming video and Internet music radio (including backhaul charges) averaged between $183 and $392 million dollars in 2004

  
  


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  Bandwidth fees at the retail level for streaming video averaged about $1.75 per gigabyte transferred in 2004

  
  


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  Bandwidth fees associated with Internet music radio streaming contracts averaged about $1 per gigabyte transferred during 2004

  
  


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  Bandwidth fees for retail contracts in the streaming video segment have fallen by 42% since 2002 on a per gigabyte transferred basis

  
  


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  Bandwidth fees for retail contracts in the Internet music radio segment have fallen by 47.3% since 2002 on a per gigabyte transferred basis

  
  


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  Including charges for provisioning backhaul, streaming media (audio and video) is forecast to generate between $282 and $606 million dollars in 2005, most likely in the mid to upper range of that forecast

  
  

Also included in the report is revenue by CDN (Akamai, Limelight Networks, Speedera, Nine Systems, VitalStream and others), number of servers in deployment, total number of client contracts, average monthly recurring revenue (MRR), forecast revenue for 2005, business model analysis, top customers, channel marketing partners and areas targeted for R & D investmernt in 2004 and 2005.