CenturyLink Launching New Global Mesh Delivery Platform for Bandwidth-Heavy Streamed Content

— Streamroot’s peer-to-peer video delivery technology deployed within CenturyLink’s CDN

By recent estimates , the number of global OTT subscribers is 375 million and growing. Given the demands on OTT digital platforms, CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) announced a global agreement with Streamroot, a provider of peer-to-peer networking solutions that can be used in combination with CenturyLink’s content delivery network (CDN). Called CenturyLink(c) CDN Mesh Delivery, the platform leverages a software-based mesh network to easily manage peak traffic loads.

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