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The Bottom Line
1.0 Report Summary
1.1 Purpose and Scope of the Report
1.2 Data Sources
2.0 Drivers for CDN Use
2.1 Consumers’ Growing Appetite for Online Video
2.2 Online Video’s Current Impact on Bandwidth Consumption
2.3 Online Video’s Future Impact on Bandwidth Consumption
3.0 The Online Video Delivery Value Chain
3.1 Content Production
3.2 Encoding and Transcoding Video Files
3.3 Content Management Components
3.4 Content Distribution
3.5 Audience Measurement
3.6 Content Monetization
4.0 CDN Overview and Trends
4.1 Third-party (Public) CDNs
4.2 Operator-deployed (“Private”) CDNs
4.3 Improving Content Delivery
4.3.1 Dynamic Packaging / Transmuxing
4.3.2 Transparent Caching
4.3.3 Load Balancing
5.0 Analytics and Content Delivery
6.0 Forecasts
7.0 Implications & Recommendations
8.0 Appendix
8.1 Glossary
8.2 Index
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