Tong Yongyue of Yunfan Accelerator: Deconstructing CDN and Returning to the Original Intention

The 2017 Asia-Pacific CDN Summit was held in Beijing on April 12-13, 2017. The conference consisted of seven parts: Asia-Pacific CDN Summit, International CDN Forum, TV New Media CDN Forum, Video Cloud Forum, Future Network Forum, C Future Video Summit, and Asia-Pacific CDN Exhibition. Tong Yongyue, founder and CEO of Yunfan Accelerator, was invited to attend and gave a keynote speech entitled "Providing Secure, Flexible, Stable, and High-Quality CDN Services" at the TV New Media CDN Forum.

Tong Yongyue started his speech by saying "deconstructing CDN and returning to the original intention". He analyzed the current problems in the CDN industry, such as price breakdown, broadband sublease, and the current situation of the industry, such as the entry of cloud systems, and discussed with the participants what exactly is wrong with the CDN industry?

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He started with the hotly debated price cut of CDN. He said that the price cut gave many people in and outside the industry the illusion that the CDN industry was about to be reshuffled again, and that CTOs were worried about losing their jobs again. In fact, this was not the case. CTOs were very calm. Because in their view, providing better value to customers does not mean how low the price is, but a stable and complete platform and better services without gambling. He emphasized that price cuts to reduce costs through innovation are worth promoting, but the practice of suppressing competitors through price wars will hurt the industry. He believes that being responsible for the company's brand and the industry chain is a return to the original intention.

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Regarding CDN, a product for enterprises, he introduced it with three questions: Is it available? Is it easy to use? Is it enough? Tong Yongyue believes that these three aspects are the yardsticks for judging the pros and cons. For the CDN industry, the balanced proportion of stable architecture, complete functions, excellent performance, customer needs, the ability to respond quickly to services, and reasonable prices are important indicators for measuring a CDN company, just like the shape of a person, thin on top and wide on the bottom is a pear shape; wide on top and thin on the bottom is an apple shape; only when the upper and lower parts are balanced and coordinated can people see a healthy body shape, and the same is true for CDN companies. Now everyone emphasizes the price when doing marketing, which is not in line with the long-term development of the market. He emphasized that only by providing customers with high-quality services and reasonable prices can we return to the original intention. He has surveyed 20+ CTOs, and these CTOs also admitted that their price is not their only consideration factor, and what they care most about is the overall customer experience.

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Tong Yongyue believes that there are many ways to provide high-quality services, reasonable prices, and overall help customers reduce costs. P2P+CDN is one of them. Yunfan Accelerator has been based on the P2P+CDN fusion model since its inception. Now more and more CDN companies are starting to use this model, which has been recognized by the industry. In addition, the shared CDN proposed last year has been accepted and recognized by many customers after a year of testing and operation. This way of helping customers reduce costs through technological innovation and model innovation is worthy of promotion and praise. It is through this method that Yunfan Accelerator has been recognized by 40+ industry top-level customers in less than two years since its establishment, becoming the standard configuration of the world's largest streaming media companies.

***Tong Yongyue ended with the idea that Yunfan Accelerator has always adhered to, "delivering immeasurable value to customers." He said that in the cooperation between CDN companies and every enterprise, the price on the contract is measurable, but the trust that customers give you is immeasurable, so staying true to the original intention is to deliver immeasurable value, and this is what Yunfan Accelerator will do.