Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Catel's CDN expands with new transport providers and peering services

The Content Delivery Network (CDN) scheme designed by the Cámara de Cooperativas de Telecomunicaciones (Catel) (Chamber of Telecommunications Cooperatives) reaches its four years with fewer cooperatives than desired, but with two growth aspects: on the one hand, considering Arsat delays in deliveries of LAN to LAN links, several cooperatives are joining together through private carriers; on the other hand, Catel is preparing a peering product - an access of multiple "farms" of content providers - to make available to its associates in the coming months.

There are 35 cooperatives that make up the “cascade” network: 18 “anchored” to TelViso and 17 to the Cooperativa Eléctrica de Luján. As Horacio Vitullo, Deputy Manager of Wholesale Business and Corporate Accounts at TelViso told Convergencialatina, the original goal was to have 50 to 55 by 2021: due to a “growth crisis” at Arsat, the strategic pillar of Catel's project germ, some 20 organizations eager to interconnect with the CDN failed to do so.

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