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Special delivery, your delivery

How confident are you that your next live event will be delivered flawlessly? That your website can scale to meet growing demand and unexpected traffic spikes? Do you need your infrastructure to handle more aggressive online initiatives? Or deliver an always-perfect user experience? Limelight Networks offers a selection of Professional Services that address these critical content delivery challenges and help you maximize your investment in CDN services—while managing growth in this rapidly changing business environment.

Why turn to Limelight Networks for help? In our seven years in the CDN business, we've seen it all. We've delivered the world's largest online events, such as the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and helped scale the world's largest websites, such as MySpace, Facebook, and Amazon.com. We've worked with startups, small and large IT departments, and some of the most complex network configurations in the Internet business. With our versatile Professional Services, we can put this breadth and depth of experience to work for all layers of your content delivery architecture and services.

Our agile team of experts understands the complexities of delivering rich media over the Internet and the expectations of today's demanding audiences. We have deep experience with the entire delivery process, including content distribution strategies, network architecture design, content origin infrastructure, pre-event testing, live event execution, and best practices spanning format selection and associated media players. We can even educate your internal staff to implement performance improvement programs to consistently monitor and boost the quality and speed of your website.

Choose one of our core service packages:
 
Live Events -- Trouble-free event execution
When you team with Limelight Networks, you’ll benefit from our extensive experience in delivering the largest live, global web events. We will work with your to ensure that all the pieces of your live broadcast will come together at the right time — reducing the stress and the risk of producing a successful event.
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Live Event Services include:
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•  Best practice advice on event set-up, marketing, and execution
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•  Detailed planning and coordination, from the kick-off meeting to post-event review
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•  Access to professional signal transmission services around the globe
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•  Pre-configuration of network assets to ensure massive scalability for even the largest web events
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•  Encoding and transcoding content to address requirements for multiple delivery formats
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•  Onsite engineering resources to test and support your solution
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•  Centralized event monitoring and dedicated on-line support during the event
 
Health Check -- Deliver more with less
Maximize your return on investment and minimize ongoing support requirements, while increasing the performance of your content delivery strategy. Our Health Check team will thoroughly assess your existing solution, make best practice recommendations, and transfer knowledge to your internal resources.
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Health Check Services include:
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•  Evaluation of architecture and configuration of your existing CDN solution
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•  Verification and review of client origin infrastructure to increase upload speed, reduce costs, and improve end-user experience
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•  Detailed review of content characteristics spanning library size, file size, file types, directory structure, content popularity, method of upload, refresh requirements, and other content characteristics
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•  Guidance on recommended modifications to improve performance and increase availability
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•  Installation and configuration of additional content and services
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•  Recommendations to improve integration with advertising partners, back-end databases, and networking components
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•  Best practices for performance monitoring, including use of third-party tools
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•  Education of your staff on configuration, troubleshooting, and content management techniques
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•  Documentation on the status of your solution and roadmap of proposed modifications
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•  Regularly scheduled audits and recommendations for fine-tuning your CDN solution
 
Jump Start -- Accelerate time to market

Make the optimal implementation decisions right from the start and accelerate project completion. Our Jump Start service is ideal for organizations who are new to using a CDN — or for organizations transitioning from a legacy CDN provider to Limelight Networks. Our experts translate your requirements into technical solutions, helping you quickly optimize your online efforts using our services.

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Jump Start Services include:
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•  Technical review of your existing infrastructure and content requirements
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•  Implementation review and proposed modifications
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•  Detailed review and training of feature sets implemented
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•  Setup and fine-tuning of reports, sub-reports, and logs
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•  Best practices for expediting implementation while managing change
 
Customer Origin -- The right content delivered
Internet-based business models require the correct content be delivered at the user’s request — no small feat in an environment where content libraries are expanding exponentially. Our Customer Origin experts will review your infrastructure and set up mechanisms to help you manage, refresh, organize, characterize, and transfer your content into our CDN for error-free distribution.
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Origin Services include:
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•  Assistance with coalescing or migrating origins
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•  Origin ingestion and encoding/transcoding
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•  Deploying custom origin infrastructures
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•  Implementing globally distributed origins and ingest systems
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•  Evaluation of your origin infrastructure
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•  Detailed review of content characteristics and associated organization methods
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•  Proper set up of HTTP rules that govern content behavior on the CDN
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•  Best practices to control and refresh new versions of content
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•  Proper techniques for purging content
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•  Implementation of APIs to tie our CDN into your origin infrastructure
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•  Tailored HTTP response code reporting and options
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We also understand that your business needs are unique. If you don't see what you need, talk to us. Our Professional Services team can tailor a solution and package of services to help drive your business forward.

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In the Limelight

Oprah.com is using Live Event Services as a critical technology component for its “A New Earth” ten-week webinar series. Arrow Link

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Your own private CDN

Allow Limelight Networks to set up a private CDN and manage it on your behalf. Learn more. Arrow Link

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Brilliant Bits

Forrester Research projects that online video advertising spend will experience a compound annual growth of 72% through 2012.

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