CoolCast is a leading content delivery network, with a global footprint spanning 14 worldwide locations that provides for a truly world-class CDN infrastructure. Leading customers include many of the Fortune 500 companies that rely on CoolCast to deliver video-streams, flash and windows media streams, live broadcasts and event streaming, images, and progressive downloads. CoolCast locates content close to the users, and accelerates delivery of ad-network content, files, and websites.
Challenge #1: CoolCast needed cutting-edge optimization and edge caching infrastructure across which applications and contents are accelerated with guaranteed performance and delivery. Furthermore, CoolCast wanted to offer its customers instant scale with no capital costs.
Challenge #2: The second challenge was to offer CoolCast customers the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling the content network, in addition to providing instant visibility for their in-bound and out-bound traffic within the global CDN infrastructure.
Solution:
CoolCast has deployed Makani Enhancer™ appliances at various strategic locations across its world-class CDN infrastructure. Makani appliances can store and cache content, accelerate web, voip,
files and video for guaranteed performance and delivery. By deploying Makani appliances, CoolCast saves IT organizations' considerable time and effort while providing them the scalability, traffic visibility and performance guarantee of a truly world-class CDN infrastructure.
