Berge Avayzian, Chief Strategy Officer of Yankee Group, said: "Video will soon become over 80 percent of the traffic on the Internet and content delivery will become strategic for every carrier. Carriers without a CDN strategy will inevitably become insignificant and will lose the economy of scale required to be competitive. This is a strategic endeavor for both Tata Communications and BitGravity and sends a bold message to the global CDN market.

"Global reach will be table stakes for content delivery and we are excited to receive funding and support from a strong strategic investor like Tata Communications that will enable us to effectively integrate our CDN architecture with their worldwide backbone and provide an unmatched user experience.

Perry Wu, CEO and co-founder of BitGravity, said, "Tata Communications' extensive relationships within and outside of the communications industry will accelerate the deployment and penetration of our innovative platform.

Tata Communications' Tier 1 IP presence worldwide combined with BitGravity's leading technology provides an offering that is unmatched in user experience, performance, quality and reach around the world.

Tata Communications is uniquely positioned 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.

Genius Wong, Tata Communications' Senior Vice President of Global IP and VPN Services, said: "Two essential ingredients of a superior CDN service include a strong IP network providing higher performance, and an efficient, scalable file distribution technology. The design of Tata Communications' CDN service has taken into account these key factors to come up with the industry's highest performance and reliable IPv4 and IPv6 CDN service."

Tata Communications' suite of offerings include Tata Communications CDN, anext-generation CDN designed for a wide range of applications providing the highest performance and reliability on a global scale;Tata Communications CDN Plus andCDN Secure, add value designed for the distribution and protection of media assets; and Tata Communications LiveBroadcast,a high quality, flash-based streaming service for broadcasters of live events.

Source: PR Wire