BANGALORE, INDIA: The growing Indian content delivery network (CDN) market, touted to be Rs.1, 163 crore by 2010, is paving way for new players into the CDN service space.

A recent entrant is BitGravity, a next-generation CDN for interactive broadcasting.

On the backdrop of its recent tie-up with Tata Communications, Perry Wu, CEO and co-founder, BitGravity shares a few words with CIOL in an interview. Excerpts:

CIOL: Please brief us on BitGravity-Tata Communications tie-up?

Perry Wu: BitGravity and Tata Communications have a strategic global partnership, which was announced in March of 2008. On September 8 we announced together the global launch of Tata Communications CDN powered by BitGravity, which is the first truly global CDN on a single asynchronous number (ASN) IP network covering Europe, Asia, India and North America.

Tata also announced an $11.5 million investment in convertible debt validating the company's CDN platform as a key benefit in Tata Communications value- added services offering and John Hayduck, CTO of Tata Communications, has also joined the BitGravity Board.

CIOL: How do you evaluate this tie-up?

PU: Asia is a very important market for BitGravity and was a key motivator for BitGravity in partnering with a strong company like Tata.

Tata Communications is uniquely positioned and its Tier 1 IP presence worldwide will help us to offer quality global delivery and support, which enables companies to outsource distribution of video, downloads, music, games and multimedia without degradation from Paris to Hong Kong, Bangalore and the Silicon Valley.

Tata Communications' extensive relationships within and outside of the communications industry will accelerate the deployment and penetration of our innovative platform.