The other new company jumping into the Content Delivery Network arena is Dyn Inc. Dyn started out over 10 years ago providing home and small businesses users domain, email, and Internet infrastructure services (DynDNS), and over the last two years has been expanding their enterprise offering (Dynect). As a new provider to the CDN marketplace they're focused solely on CDN Load Balancing.

Being the only company offering a Load Balancing product that’s not an actual Content Delivery Network, they may have a leg up from the acceptance and market credibilty perspective. Dyn says that their CDN Manager is the most effective way for customers to maximize an end-user's web experience. They also claim their CDN Manager is the most effective way for customers to maximize the performance of their Content Delivery Networks, yet at the same time bring other providers into the mix.

I first learned about CDN Load Balancing back in 2007, during my days with Limelight Networks. Back then, Limelight Networks sold a Load Balancing product that took the requests of end users and sent those requests to the various CDN’s that were part of the customer’s CDN delivery portfolio. This was done based on customer defined percentages: X percent would use one CDN, Y percent would use the second CDN, Z percent would use the third CDN (if applicable), and so on.

This post details Bandcon and their Content Networking service offering. Bandcon uses the load balancing method called switching (refer to my previous blog post Introduction to Choosing Between Multiple CDN’s and CDN Load Balancing for more details on load balancing techniques.)

To provide unequaled access to the best platforms in the industry while offering flexibility, Bandcon has relationships with multiple CDN providers, including Limelight Networks, Level3, Highwinds, Internap, and CDNetworks. Bandcon states they “offer the ultimate in freedom by allowing you to switch CDN providers or select a completely different provider regardless of where you are in the contract”.