Exploration of CDN Technology Innovation and Business Model——2018 Asia Pacific CDN Summit was grandly held

[51CTO.com original article] On April 11-12, 2018, the 2018 Asia Pacific CDN Summit was held in the Grand Ballroom on the third floor of the Kempinski Hotel in Beijing. Mainstream CDN vendors from all over the world participated in the exploration of the upcoming CDN technology innovation and business model. This summit not only covers the essential topics of TV cloud, live broadcast, OTT, etc. that are discussed at the annual summit, but also includes new content such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, short video, etc. that are different from previous years.

The CDN Forum in the morning focused on the development trend and standardization of CDN, which started with speeches by Liu Shuguang, Deputy Secretary General of China Electronic Commerce Association, and Du Baichuan, a senior radio and television expert of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. Then, Zhu Zhaoyuan, General Manager of Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud, Li Dong, Vice President of Wangsu Technology, Deng Du, Deputy General Manager and Chief Architect of Tencent Cloud CDN, Li Hao, Chief Architect of NetMind Technology, Wu Aimin, Senior Director of Kingsoft Cloud, and Chen Changshui of Beijing Huaru Technology Co., Ltd., seven industry leaders shared their experiences.

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The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued more than 100 content distribution network business licenses

Mr. Liu Shuguang, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Electronic Commerce Association, said in his speech that as of 2018, the number of content distribution network business licenses issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has exceeded 100, and the participants in the CDN industry are increasing rapidly and steadily. Concurrent traffic has brought a lot of opportunities as well as price challenges. The CDN market has gone from a blue ocean to a bloody ocean. The traditional CDN environment has undergone tremendous changes. Business forms and business models that define prices based on traffic are in urgent need of iteration and updating.

On the one hand, as Internet technologies such as weapons, edge computing, and blockchain affect the entire network architecture and user Internet usage habits, they also affect the future direction of the next generation of CDN. On the other hand, as the entire market competition becomes increasingly fierce, the reduction of traffic unit price has become an inevitable phenomenon. In the current situation of being cut off in the middle, how to establish a healthy charging model for the industry has also become an important topic.

Supporting CDN services and reducing CDN costs through artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, security, P2P, blockchain, etc. have also become huge challenges that must be faced in the ever-increasing market environment.

Ethereum is a programmable blockchain

Mr. Du Baichuan, a senior radio and television expert from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, said in his report entitled "Less Hype, More Practice, Discussion on the Application of Blockchain Technology in Radio and Television" that blockchain technology can not only solve the problem of duplicate payments, but also solve other challenges such as a group of people needing to reach a consensus on a series of facts, motivating technicians to create new blockchain models that have the following three characteristics: what is stored on the ledger, the process used to reach consensus, and the degree to which the ledger is permitted.

Public blockchain Ethereum technology, created in 2014, runs on a public P2P network, utilizes cryptocurrency (Ether, ETH) and stores information in blocks, but has broader functionality.

Compared with Bitcoin blockchain technology, which is specifically used to store transaction information, Ethereum provides a built-in programming language and an open platform that allows users to create a wide variety of decentralized applications. In other words, Ethereum is a programmable blockchain, and some people call it the world's first distributed computer.

Distributing computing in a P2P network necessarily makes computing slower and more expensive, but also creates a consensus database that can provide data to all participants simultaneously and consistently.

Since the first Asia-Pacific CDN Summit was held in 2013, it has included mainstream CDN manufacturers from the Asia-Pacific region and the world every year to hold heated discussions on a series of policies, technologies, industries, standards, value-added services and other topics in the content distribution network field.

It is reported that in addition to the CDN*** Forum, this summit will also have multiple sub-forums including the TV Cloud Forum, Short Video Forum, Video Cloud Forum, New Technology Forum, Operator Forum, International Cloud Forum, etc. in the afternoon and tomorrow, which are full of practical information.

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