If you were under any illusion that multi-CDN delivery was nearing maturity, a recent roundtable held under Chatham House rules by the CDN Alliance would quickly cure that optimism. While a whopping 89% of participants agreed that multi-CDN is here to stay, only 24% believe it’s getting any easier. In fact, 41% bemoan multi-CDN for actively getting harder. Under assurance of anonymity, participants summarized multi-CDN as simultaneously becoming more critical and more chaotic—a paradox stemming from both technical fragmentation and entrenched commercial resistance. At a technical level, most attendees concede that deploying multi-CDN is easier than it was five years ago. You no longer need a forest of dashboards, thanks to APIs and automation pipelines stepping in. However, some argue…