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Table 3. Commesrcial CDNs research dimensions analysis

CDN Provider name Hybrid

cloud
support

Content creation and management Personalisation

(User/Device)

QoS Indexing Cloud

selection

Content type

Akamai [ 5 ] No Partial content management No/Yes Yes Title and Keyword Not

applicable

Web (static and dynamic) and
Media

LimeLight Networks
[ 13 ]

No Publish content using web interface No/Yes Yes Title and Keyword Not

applicable

Web (static and dynamic) and
Media

Rackspace Cloud Files
[ 9 ]

No Mainly content storage and

distribution using Akamai

No Yes.

Using
Akamai

No Not

applicable

Cloud store for any type of
content

Amazon CloudFront
[ 10 ]

No Publish content using web interface

and APIs

No/Yes Yes Title and Keyword Not

applicable

Web (static and dynamic) and
Media

Accellion ( www.
accellion.com )

No Mainly le sharing and mobile

collaboration

No/yes No No Not

applicable

Cloud store for any type of
content

EdgeStream ( http://
www2.edgestream.
com/es/ )

No Support to publish content by

providers

No/Yes (edge
stream
enabled
device)

Yes Title and Keyword Not

applicable

Video streaming

CloudFlare ( https://
www.cloudflare.com/
features-cdn )

No No No/yes Yes No Not

applicable

Web site content acceleration

MetaCDN [ 11 ] Yes Interface to upload content (cannot

orchestrate new content from
existing content)

No/Yes Yes Title and Keyword Yes. Web (static) and various content

media types (video, audio,
images etc.)

Mirror Image ( http://
www.mirror-image.
com/

No Dynamic content publishing support No/Yes Yes Title and Keyword Not

applicable

Mostly video (live streaming,
video on demand)

MaxCDN ( http://www.
maxcdn.com )

No Only serve web pages (static and

dynamic)

No/Yes No No Not

applicable

Web site acceleration

MediWise Cloud [ 14 ,
15 ]

Yes Yes. Group of users can create content

from existing content.

Yes/Yes Yes Title, keyword and

video context
across clouds

Yes Video, audio and images

CODEEN ( http://
codeen.cs.princeton.
edu/ )

No Speci cally used content storage and

distribution

No/No No No Not

applicable

Any content

COMODIN [ 41 ] Yes Partially. Group of users can control

media collaboratively

No/No No No No Video, audio and images