Faultline’s extensive archive is littered with warnings about the content delivery network (CDN) market—flagging early who would be the winners (private CDNs) and losers (Open Caching) as the technology matured and prices slid. The 2010s and early 2020s saw surging demand for CDN services, thanks to a natural migration of users from legacy broadcast to streaming video, later accelerated unnaturally by Covid lockdowns. But now the era of explosive CDN growth is firmly over, and we have the hard data to prove it, thanks to a forecast hot off the press from our research arm Rethink TV. This updated batch of research on the CDN market projects total CDN traffic to climb from 8,527 EB in 2026, to 22,362 EB…