Limelight’s API interfaces with 3rd party video platforms.

To ingest is to upload digital content into a CDN via any of many formats.

Satellites are typically used to relay content from its source (at a live event) or video library to a CDN.

A downlink facility is a satellite signal-receiving station where content can be stored or loaded into a CDN for delivery.

Live video is scheduled programming available via Internet Over-the-Top (OTT) services—usually news, sports, or concerts.

A publisher is video platform software that manages video content and distributes video to CDNs.

Editor software is used for editing video files to remove, add, or alter the sequence of scenes.

An edge server is one of thousands of servers running our EdgePrism software that is placed on the edge of the network to handle local requests faster and lower response times.

Transcode and deliver live video broadcasts over HLS, HDS, MSS, and DASH formats.

Transcode and deliver video files over HLS, HDS, MSS, and DASH formats.

Closed captioning is the addition of a text overlay on video that captures the audio portion of a video and displays it in text.

DVRs record live video as a VOD file for viewing on-demand.

ZTP allows for the transcoding of video on the fly to be delivered to viewers even before the entire video file is ingested into the CDN.

A managed video library is a software platform containing a collection of video files and management software for video content and distribution. for more information.

Online video delivery platforms allow users to easily post video content that can be viewed online.

Origin is the location where content to be delivered is hosted. It could be positioned near users within the CDN storage infrastructure or at the CDN customer's location.

To ingest is to upload digital content into a CDN via any of many formats.

Edge servers with the ability to transmit or decode tokenized requests play a role in authenticating users and providing access to content. The edge server holds a token that the client must match before authentication is granted.

SmartPurge is a unique Limelight feature that removes selected content, globally, from the CDN edge caches in seconds.

A purge request is a request for all copies of specific content to be eliminated across all edge cache locations on a CDN.

A Distributed Denial of Service attack is a malicious effort to slow down or incapacitate a website by overwhelming it with traffic and causing it to crash or operate very slowly. Attackers use large armies of automated "bots"—computers that have been infected with malware and can be remotely controlled by hackers—to create DDoS attacks on a very large scale.

A managed video library is a software platform containing a collection of video files and management software for video content and distribution. See Curiousity Stream’s Case Study for more information.

Video content may be licensed with restrictions on viewership to subscribers or specific geographic locations. To accomplish this, client tokens can be used as part of an access authentication process.

As part of delivering content to users, CDNs often have to authorize user access to websites. The use of token matches between clients and servers prevents unauthorized access. Reasons for restricting access includes enforcing content licensing, subscription access, etc.

The data collected through analytics provides you with insights into how users consume media and what they expect now—or may want in the future—from an online video platform.

There is a growing diversity of user devices and content delivery protocols. When delivering content to users, detection of their device type and sending content in the correct format to virtually all devices is critical. Multi-device delivery is the ability to deliver files and media content to mobile, desktop, and server-based devices.