re: How Likely Is a Limelight IPO?So Limelights pitch is: you guys focus on the content and let us figure out the network...and they expect to pitch this to who, cable and telco networks? Does Wallstreet know that network hardware companies do this for free to sell their network hardware? Does Walstreet know that cable companies figured out the content delivery business awhile ago?
I guess the answer is they finally figured it out, so it's time to spin, IPO and roll load onto Joe Schmuck and his granny...
re: How Likely Is a Limelight IPO?Why says: "they expect to pitch this to who, cable and telco networks? ... network hardware companies do this for free ... cable companies figured out the content delivery business awhile ago"
Why don't you actually read a little bit (e.g. http://www.limelightnetworks.c... before you post? 1. Limelight is selling to content owners, not network owners. 2. CDN is about Internet delivery, not walled garden (e.g. cable video or telco IPTV) delivery. 3. CDN is a service, not a box, so network hardware companies can't and don't "do this for free".
I am impressed by one thing, though: In one short paragraph, you've managed to demonstrate virtually boundless ignorance.
Actually, I did check out their website, and found it to be the typical "solutions"-based bunch of gibberish. So I asked.
So let me see if I understand the business proposition: Limelight charges the real content distributors (cable and telco compnaies) to hook them up to content? And this does what for the physical content owners and or physical network owners that is not already being done?
I guess the answer is they finally figured it out, so it's time to spin, IPO and roll load onto Joe Schmuck and his granny...
-Why