MetaCDN is a cloud-based content delivery network company that also offers video transcoding, streaming video and web accelerator services.[1][2]

Founded in 2011 from research out of the University of Melbourne, MetaCDN is backed by Australian venture capital firm Starfish Ventures and the University of Melbourne's commercialization arm.[3][4]

MetaCDN leverages services such as Amazon Web Services, Edgecast, and Windows Azure to offer users access to an integrated global network for content delivery.[5][6] As of July 2012, the company reported having 102 access points in 5 continents on their website.

StreamShark.io

In September 2015 MetaCDN rebranded its live streaming platform to StreamShark.[7] The launch of StreamShark included a complete rebuild of the live streaming & video on demand platform.

References

  1. ^ "MetaCDN takes content delivery networks into the cloud".
  2. ^ "MetaCDN - Grow your business, not your infrastructure".
  3. ^ "Technology Commercialisation: Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne". www.eng.unimelb.edu.au. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Soap2day: MetaCDN Streaming with Cloud Services". Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  5. ^ "MetaCDN: Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne". www.eng.unimelb.edu.au. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012.
  6. ^ Broberg, James; Buyya, Rajkumar; Tari, Zahir (2009). "MetaCDN: Harnessing 'Storage Clouds' for high performance content delivery". Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 32 (5): 1012–1022. doi:10.1016/j.jnca.2009.03.004.
  7. ^ "Welcome to StreamShark". streamshark.io. 22 September 2015.