Google Global Caches (GGCs) have already been deployed in many telecom operators' data centers around the world, caching YouTube video files like Psy's Gangnam Style for the local users. This allows people around the globe to watch Psy singing and dancing without buffering through their local GGCs. Korean operators like SK Telecom, LG U+ and KINX have also made the same move in February...

Sandvine has recently reported that, in the second half of 2012, Netflix and YouTube accounted for 48% (33% and 15% respectively) of the total Internet traffic in North America, making telecom operators' IP network look like a video transport network rather the Internet. With an ever-increasing number of users and higher-resolution videos, the traffic of these two (and hence the delivery c...

Last week (March 27, 2013), KT, No. 1 telecommunications company in Korea with annual revenue of $22.3 billion in 2012, has entered into an agreement with Akamai, the world's No. 1 CDN service provider with annual revenue of $1.37 billion in 2012, for using Akamai's Managed CDN services. Since 2012, world's leading CDN service providers including Akamai, Limelight, Edgecast, etc. ha...