Gian: PacketZoom drastically reduces customers' traditional CDN bills
Shlomi Gian · 753: With His Tool, Mobile Browsing on Spotty Wifi Doesn't Suck · Aug 16, 2017 · at 5:03
Shlomi Gian is the CEO of PacketZoom, a mobile networking startup. He discusses how PacketZoom reduces reliance and spending on legacy CDN infrastructure.
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“Many of our customers are using traditional web CDNs like Akamai, Amazon, CloudFront, et cetera. Once they start using PackageZoom, this bill almost goes away, and they can replace it with a better service and all that. Technically, They don't have to change. They don't have to terminate the relationship with the other CDN, but by placing us in front of them, they'll see a big reduction in the bill.”
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