Ericsson “will deploy its Unified Delivery Network (UDN) solution in Equinix’s extensive business ecosystem of more than 9,500 companies.”
Major datacentre company, Equinix, has been selected by Ericsson “to deploy its Unified Delivery Network (UDN) solution in Equinix’s datacentres and across its business ecosystem of network service, cloud and content providers and enterprises in all industry sectors.”
The two companies say they’ll also “extend their new relationship to work together on future innovation projects, including possible collaboration on new technologies developed in Ericsson Silicon Valley.”
Equinix is a massive player in the global interconnection and datacentre business, and the claimed biggest “provider by market share,” operating “more than 180 datacentres across five continents servicing over 9,500 companies.”
{loadposition alex08}Ericsson’s UDN is already deployed in “14 Equinix locations across Asia, America and Europe today” with eight more locations to become UDN-equipped later this year.
Charles Meyers, Equinix President of Strategy, Services and Innovation said: “Equinix is constantly looking for innovative solutions, that when combined with our global interconnection platform, provide customers with the opportunity to capitalise on new revenue streams and create value-added services as an extension of their datacenter deployments.
“With the addition of Ericsson UDN, our customers can more easily deploy a CDN that securely distributes customised content with consistent, reliable and secure on-demand performance.”
So, what precisely is the UDN?
We’re told that “UDN is a G-CDN ecosystem that enables and aggregates network capabilities into the public domain, allowing services to be optimised and scaling the delivery of over-the-top (OTT) services and high-quality video content. It resides at the service providers' Digital Edge (which Equinix hosts), http://www.equinix.com/digital-edge/ resulting in better performance and user experience.”
Marcus Bergström, Ericsson’s UDN GM, said: “The last mile nature of our UDN and the location of Equinix facilities in key metros around the world is a perfect fit. This partnership attracts new potential customers for both companies, by enabling them to deploy services closer to end users at the ‘edge’, resulting in higher quality content and more consistent QoE.”
Ericsson makes the observation that “consumers are increasingly demanding higher quality content and constant QoE across an increasing number of connected devices.”
Thus, with these factors “placing strain on traditional CDNs,” demand is being driven “for new ways to deliver content.”
Ericsson proudly boasts that “UDN addresses these demands with last mile edge delivery, allowing content and service providers to optimize services and scale the delivery of high quality content and advanced services including 4K, Ultra High Definition, gaming and virtual reality.”
If you’re going to be at IBC 2017 over the next few days (September 15 to 19), then Ericsson would love you to come along and visit its stand.
Ericsson supplied the image below, it must be of happy users enjoying content via the UDN, although a more realistic version of this particular image would have seen each individual staring at their own phone or tablet, rather than clustered around a single device.
In any case it's a nice photo of some people enjoying content on what looks like an iPad in a case, but it is possible to make a case that each person should have been enjoying their own content on a personal, encased device on a case-by-case basis, just in case.
