Streamers seek private CDNs as SRT triggers live streaming boom

Vendors and service providers far and wide across the OTT video landscape are positioned to prosper greatly from the rise of CDN revenues, triggered in part by the adoption of protocols including Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) which are fundamentally altering the industry’s technical foundations. While North America rules the roost today in terms of CDN IP traffic by region, hovering at around 50 Exabytes (EB), Asia Pacific is forecast to blast past the rest of the world in 2021, going on to around 250 EB by 2024 and leaving North America in the dust at 150 EB by this time. While AVoD will spearhead Asia Pacific’s rise and North America and Europe will continue to thrive from SVoD services, they…