CDN Forecast to 2024

CDNs will benefit hugely from more and more traffic travelling as high density and “live” video, says a report out this week from Rethink Technology Research’s Rethink TV service.

The new report is entitled, “SRT triggers “live” video surge on global CDNs – CDN Forecast to 2024” and it is part of the Rethink TV series of forecasts, sold as a subscription service.

Video is taking an increasing proportion of CDN traffic and CDNs in turn are expanding their share of all IP traffic. But the main emerging factors will be a surge in live streaming video traffic, and hitched to that a boom in low latency protocols, particularly the SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) and possibly Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) protocols because of their ability to shave latencies much closer to the ultimate limits imposed by the laws of physics.

If you thought the rise of SVoD was fast and extreme, the rise of “live” content will happen even faster and create more changes in both the entertainment landscape and its underlying technology backdrop. SRT has emerged as the protocol of choice for delivering live video as close to “synchronous” as possible.

Live streaming has only just emerged from the shadow of SVoD which has dominated streaming traffic ever since Netflix began ramping a decade ago. Even though SVoD has plenty of room for growth yet, live streaming traffic will rise much more steeply and overtake non live video traffic between 2023 and 2024. Live video accounted for 11 Exabytes compared with total CDN video traffic of 58 EB in 2018, by 2024 it will be 238 EB against 453 EB.

Companies mentioned in this report:

Akamai, Amazon, Amazon Web Services, AT&T, Baidu, Cisco, Comcast, DaCast, Disney, Facebook, FubboTV, Google, Grupo Clarin, Haivision, IBM Cloud Video, Microsoft, Millicast, NBC Universal, Netflix, Peer5, Sky, Skype, Snapchat, Strive, TenCent, Twitter, Vimeo Livestream, Warner Media, WeChat, WhatsApp, Wowza, Youku Tudou, YouTube, YuppTV

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