The two sessions hotly discussed the sharing economy: shared CDN becomes an enterprise-level benchmark

Ever since Kevin Kelly predicted the bright prospects of the sharing economy in the next twenty years, history has lived up to expectations and is moving forward in the direction guided by this prophet. Not only is the sharing of resources related to people's food, clothing, housing and transportation, but ToB enterprise-level sharing is also in full swing.

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Kevin Kelly (KK), founding editor of Wired magazine

IDG Capital founding partner Xiong Xiaoge once publicly stated: "The next BAT may appear in the To B field." This has given To B companies a shot in the arm. Looking at the development of the Internet in China over the past decade, especially in recent years, with the changes in people's consumption habits and information acquisition habits, information transmission using video as a carrier has become the mainstream. With the decline of paper media and the rise of new media, traditional media can't wait to transform into new media. Video, live broadcast, VR live broadcast, and short video are coming one after another. The hot streaming media field has also created a huge demand for the CDN behind it. The traffic of enterprises has quarterly cycles and time cycles depending on the popularity of the program, and CDN also has busy or idle periods, which also provides an opportunity for resource sharing.

With the support of the sharing concept, the CDN industry has also started a business model of "coming from the masses and going to the masses". Media reports have said that Yunfan Accelerator, as an innovative CDN manufacturer, combined the sharing concept with the business model. As early as 2015, it completely independently developed the CDN system and launched the shared CDN project. At that time, it provided shared bandwidth through large-scale terminal user ADSL box applications, which set off a journey of CDN industry model transformation. Other shared CDN products such as NetMind Technology have also appeared on the market. They sell large-storage routers to users and collect users' idle bandwidth for enterprise services.

Yunfan Accelerator launched the "Shared CDN Plan" in 2016, integrating more redundant and idle resources at the enterprise level, activating silent assets for value realization, and opening up an enterprise-level sharing economy model. Its founder and CEO Tong Yongyue also called on enterprises to share redundant resources and share the dividends of model innovation in a public speech.

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Tong Yongyue, Founder and CEO of Yunfan Accelerator

Kai-Fu Lee once said: "The sharing economy will subvert every industry", and Yunfan Accelerator is applying the concept of sharing economy to the CDN industry, subverting the traditional model, going into battle lightly, and helping enterprises to reduce their burdens and develop. According to reporters, many large domestic video companies have reached a shared CDN agreement with Yunfan Accelerator to share their idle bandwidth. Together with the original user nodes, the service capacity is more than 4T. After integrating and stratifying these resources, Yunfan Accelerator uses policy scheduling and user collaborative filtering mechanisms to reasonably allocate resources according to the different business needs of different customers, achieving the same effect as mainstream CDN. The sharing of major enterprise-level resources also avoids the bandwidth dispersion and unstable quality caused by the simple contribution of idle bandwidth by users. Compared with its early products and other shared CDNs on the market, it is more stable and has better performance, with availability > 99%, live broadcast delay < 1.5s, and fluency above 95%. It is revealed that Yunfan Accelerator's shared CDN has provided services to many large enterprises such as radio and television new media and live broadcast platforms, and has reduced bandwidth costs for enterprises by more than 100 million yuan.

Recently, Yunfan Accelerator has started selling shared CDN as an independent product, with a price of about 70% of the CDN market price. Compared with CDN companies' self-built services, shared CDN is more important in terms of operation in addition to technical optimization, that is, how to obtain more low-cost enterprise resources. We know that enterprises build their own CDN mainly to meet their own business needs. During their peak traffic periods, there is indeed a possibility that the enterprise itself does not have redundant resources to share, and there is a possibility of loopholes in the shared resource pool. So how can shared CDN provide stable services for enterprises?

In this regard, Yunfan Accelerator said that it has established a compensation mechanism for self-built CDN and shared CDN, and adjusted the ratio of self-built CDN and shared resources to ensure stable services. In addition, under the trend of "live broadcast +", Yunfan Accelerator has launched customized streaming media solutions and private CDN construction solutions for enterprises with large user traffic. Shared CDN can not only provide enterprises with low-cost and high-performance distribution acceleration services, but also provide a monetization channel for redundant resources of enterprises, opening up a new value chain.

As we all know, the rapid growth of video, live broadcast, game and other businesses has provided continuous impetus for the development of CDN industry. The rapid maturity of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and mobile Internet has promoted the innovation of CDN technology and models, and the market prospects are unlimited. This time, Yunfan Accelerator launched shared CDN as an independent product. This move is not only a challenge for itself but also a huge challenge for the entire industry. Let us wait and see what the follow-up results will be.