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Internet live streaming has been growing quickly and fulfilling people’s entertainment needs in the last decade. With users’ standards getting higher and higher, whether it is live streaming of sports events or user-generated streams, viewers demand high video resolution, low latency, and no freezing. Stream quality could significantly impact user retention and monetization. Outside of…

The growth of e-commerce in China has impressed everyone. The country, with more than 800 million internet users, takes the lead in the worldwide e-commerce industry, and more than 40% of total global transactions take place there, according to a report by McKinsey. Moreover, an increasing number of customers are shopping directly from retailers to…

As Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Big Data, and Cloud Computing technologies are widely adopted across many industries, Internet Data Centers which provide support behind the curtains (at the back end) experienced exponential growth. With the latest regulations on the energy consumption of data centers, exploring ways to lower the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratio,…

“CDN is a critical link between companies’ origin servers and their end users. In the early days, network security would be addressed at the origins. Companies might purchase equipment and software to build their own security systems. However, in recent years, as CDN gets more integrated into our clients’ services, we as CDN providers need…

The second generation ChinaCache cloud storage solution not only couples well with ChinaCache Content Delivery Network and provides end-to-end services, it also offers a variety of features, including: Self-service portal Petabyte storage space File consistency check (comparing with the origin) Content cycle management Data backup and recovery Multi-strategy data migration Standard RESTful-API interface, and Hotlinking…

On March 15, ChinaCache successfully wrapped up the work as a security provider for the Two Sessions, the most high profile national meetings in China held every March. ChinaCache is one of the companies selected to protect the network security for China Daily, the state-owned media outlet that reported and live-streamed the meetings on its…

On February 28, 2019, China Internet Network Information Center published the 43rd edition of the Statistical Report on Internet Development in China (“Report”). The Report recapped the Internet development in China in 2018 from various aspects. Continuously increasing Internet usage and penetration rate As of December 2018, the number of Internet users has reached 829…

In recent years, the data center market in China experienced exponential growth with approximately 32% CAGR from 2012 to 2017, driven by the flourishing of the Internet industry as well as government support in the Internet+, big data strategy, and digital economy realms. Although the number looks promising, the actual utilization rate and demand for…

As paid subscription-based membership becomes more prevalent, video streaming companies cannot put more emphasis on the importance of content protection and hotlinking prevention. On top of ChinaCache’s video CDN service capacity, to ensure clients’ content security, ChinaCache includes tokens in streaming URLs provided to end users to authenticate each request. A legitimate end user request…