MetaCDN explained

MetaCDN
Type:Proprietary company
Industry:Internet
Foundation:15 Feb 2011
Location:Melbourne, Australia
Area Served:Worldwide
Key People:James Broberg (CEO)
John Ellershaw (COO)
Products:content delivery, video transcoding, video streaming, web accelerator
Services:Content delivery network, live streaming, website acceleration, video on demand
Homepage:MetaCDN.com

MetaCDN is a cloud-based content delivery network company that also offers video transcoding, streaming video and web accelerator services.[1] [2]

Founded in 2011 from research out of the University of Melbourne, MetaCDN is backed by Australian venture capital firm Starfish Ventures and the University of Melbourne's commercialization arm.[3] [4]

MetaCDN leverages services such as Amazon Web Services, Edgecast, and Windows Azure to offer users access to an integrated global network for content delivery.[5] [6] As of July 2012, the company reported having 102 access points in 5 continents on their website.

StreamShark.io

In September 2015 MetaCDN rebranded its live streaming platform to StreamShark.[7] The launch of StreamShark included a complete rebuild of the live streaming & video on demand platform.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: MetaCDN takes content delivery networks into the cloud.
  2. Web site: MetaCDN - Grow your business, not your infrastructure.
  3. Web site: Technology Commercialisation: Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne . www.eng.unimelb.edu.au . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120317220651/http://eng.unimelb.edu.au/industry/researchers/commercialisation.html . 2012-03-17.
  4. Web site: Soap2day: MetaCDN Streaming with Cloud Services . 2012-05-18 . en.
  5. Web site: MetaCDN: Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne . www.eng.unimelb.edu.au . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120319015754/http://eng.unimelb.edu.au/industry/researchers/metacdn.html . 2012-03-19.
  6. 10.1016/j.jnca.2009.03.004 . 32 . 5 . MetaCDN: Harnessing 'Storage Clouds' for high performance content delivery . Journal of Network and Computer Applications . 1012–1022. 2009 . Broberg . James . Buyya . Rajkumar . Tari . Zahir .
  7. Web site: Welcome to StreamShark. streamshark.io. 2015-09-22.