Horizontal full comparison of three major domestic mainstream CDNs
In 2016, the video live broadcast industry was in a big fire: the giants successively laid out the live broadcast field, hundreds of live broadcast start-ups emerged, and the number of live broadcast apps jumped to 300+. However, in addition to the market factors, the popularity of the live video industry can not be separated from the support of CDN and other technical service providers behind it: recently, the innovative professional CDN - Star CDN, after more than a year of tackling key problems, has launched the ultimate live broadcast solution especially for the live video field.
The other two mainstream CDNs, traditional CDNs and cloud service providers, have also publicly expressed their support for the live broadcast industry on many occasions. So, what's the difference between innovative professional CDNs, traditional CDNs and cloud service providers? Let's take a look at the comprehensive horizontal comparison of the three, from resources to price to technology and finally to service.
Comparison of three mainstream CDN node resources: innovative professional CDN infinite node resources far ahead
Speaking of the basic bandwidth resource capability, it is well known that it fundamentally depends on the number of CDN nodes. Both traditional CDN and cloud service providers build IDC nodes around the backbone network, but due to the high construction and operation costs, their CDN nodes are limited to hundreds of scales.
The innovative professional CDN based on the sharing mode has actually broken this bottleneck and achieved an unlimited node for the first time. Star domain CDN has the ability to lay out millions of CDN nodes through the C-end Xunlei Money making Treasure, plus 400+self built IDC nodes, which ultimately forms the total number of nodes and bandwidth resources far ahead of the first two CDNs.
As shown in the figure:
Comparison chart of three major mainstream CDN nodes and bandwidth resources in China, based on the current highest data in various fields
(Data from official websites)
It can be seen that on the basis of the unlimited CDN nodes, innovative professional CDNs can provide far more bandwidth resources than the other two CDNs, which means that they have the strongest ability to quench the huge bandwidth demand of the live video industry.
Price comparison of three mainstream CDNs: the price of innovative professional CDNs is less than 1/4 of the lowest price of peers
In particular, the innovative professional CDN's infinite node mode not only brings huge bandwidth resource supply, but also means ultra-low cost - ultra-low bandwidth cost brought by crowdfunding node deployment approach, which is further transformed into the dividend of live broadcast enterprises: as low as 0.27 yuan/Mbps/day, the industry's ultimate floor price. However, due to the huge cost of IDC and the mode of selling bandwidth resources from operators, traditional CDN and cloud service providers are somewhat "powerless" in reducing prices
The price comparison of the three is shown in the figure:
Comparison chart of three mainstream CDN prices in China, with the lowest mainstream price in their respective fields
(Data from its official website)
Among them, the innovative professional CDN "Starfield CDN. Live broadcast flagship version" is less than 1/4 of the price of cloud manufacturers, and the price is even lower than the traditional CDN.
Comparison of three mainstream CDN technologies: innovative professional CDN>cloud service provider>traditional CDN
Technology has always been the only magic weapon for innovators to enter the market, and innovative professional CDN is no exception. On the basis of the four original technologies of infinite nodes, satellite domain scheduling, dynamic defense and weak network acceleration, the new satellite domain CDN live broadcast product has also made innovations such as full network detection, intelligent networking, parallel transmission and weak network acceleration (live broadcast) for live broadcast, greatly improving the support of live video.
The CDN technology capability is related to the most deadly user experience in the live broadcast industry. According to the most popular live broadcast indicators in the live broadcast field, the horizontal comparison of the three major mainstream CDN technology capabilities is as follows:
Comparison chart of three mainstream CDN live broadcast support technologies in China, based on the best data in their respective fields
(Data from its official website)
Comparison of three mainstream CDN service modes: innovative professional CDN is the best
Finally, let's look at the differences among the three major CDN service modes:
Traditional CDN customized service model: Based on years of focusing on traditional industries, traditional CDN has formed a customized service model for fixed enterprise customers, which has higher requirements for the business adaptation cycle and business magnitude of new users, and also means that its service model is more suitable for enterprises with "no difference in money" and "no difference in time".
Online self-service mode of cloud service providers: Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud and other cloud service providers provide a unified online public service mode, which divides their businesses into several sections. The advantage is that users can take as needed, but this self-service mode is more suitable for users with certain technology and business development capabilities.
Innovative professional CDN 100% satisfaction+one-stop service mode: In addition to the first 100% satisfaction service, providing users with quick response and thorough repair services all the time, Star CDN also provides one-stop services covering video capture, upload, transcoding, storage, distribution and playback for live video enterprises, helping enterprises to improve from nothing to excellence, And can concentrate on core business. In addition, Star Domain CDN also actively provides enterprises with top P2P and H.265 technologies for free to help customers reduce bandwidth costs.
After comprehensive comparison, we can see that among the three major mainstream CDNs, the first innovative professional CDN that has put forward CDN live broadcast support scheme has indeed made great efforts, as shown by its "full support for the video live broadcast industry". In any case, on the road to "tuyere" in the live video industry, the full support from CDN is crucial.
