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Table 1 A comparative study of the existing CDN services against the research objectives of MCCO

From: MediaWise cloud content orchestrator

CDN Application Provider

Content creation and management

Ubiquitous content delivery

Content indexing

Content personalization and contexualization

Community building

Quality of service optimization

Limelight Networks[25]

Browser based interface to upload static content; supports multiple media types; do not support dynamic content creation

Dependent on private Limilight networks backbone for content delivery; supports bitrate streaming as configured by content user; only limelight audio/video player supported

Title and Keyword based

No

No

Handled behind the scenes; content providers have no control over QoS; best effort QoS at network layer

Oyala[26]

Browser-based interface to upload static content. Dynamic content creation is not supported.

Yes, to multiple devices using multiple formats

Title and Keyword based

Personalization is partially supported based on the type of devices to be used for media streaming

No

Yes, based on different CDN providers such as Akamai,

NetFlix[27]

N/A

Yes, to multiple devices using multiple formats

Title and Keyword based

Personalization is partially supported based on the type of devices to be used for media streaming

No

Yes, based on different CDN providers such as Akamai and now their own.

Akamai (Sola) and Ultraviolet[28]

Content can be managed partially, only for purchased content such as movies.

Yes, to multiple devices using multiple formats.

Title and Keyword based

Personalization is partially supported based on the type of devices to be used for media streaming

No

Yes, via Akamai. The content providers have no control over QoS provisioning.

MetaCDN[29]

Content cannot be created but can only be managed using pre-defined emplates

Yes, to multiple devices using multiple formats.

No

No

No

Yes but content providers have no control over QoS provisioning.

Rackspace[30]

Mainly content storage and provisioning

Yes, based on Akamai CDN

No

No

No

Yes, using Akamai. However, content providers have no control over QoS provisioning.