AAPT teams with EdgeCast to offer content delivery network

Stuart Corner
Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:59

IT Industry - Deals

AAPT and content delivery network operator, EdgeCast Networks, have formed a partnership under which AAPT will market EdgeCast's services in Australia and provide communications facilities to support the delivery of EdgeCast's services in Australia.

According to AAPT, the EdgeCast service eliminates the need for Australian content providers to invest in costly infrastructure and agreements with numerous global CDNs for overseas content distribution.

James Segil, co-founder and president of EdgeCast Networks, told iTWire "We wanted a partnership with a local provider to enable us to build out a network to gain access to every end user in Australia. AAPT wanted to be able to offer a valued added service to their customers. So the partnership made sense for both of us."

He said that EdgeCast had operated content servers in Australia more than a year. "We needed to make sure the global web sites we serve were able to reach eyeballs in Australia. So it was important to have a local presence."

However the company has not marketed its services locally. "We have a few local customers who have found us, but we have no sales force in Australia," Segil said.

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