Carrier activities in the CDN Market - An exploratory analysis and strategic implications

2010 14th Int. Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks: "Weaving Applications Into the Network Fabric", ICIN 2010 - 2nd Int. Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Platforms, BMMP 10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wulf, Jochen ^a   Zarnekow, Rüdiger ^a   Hau, Thorsten ^b   Brenner, Walter ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDED-VALUE SERVICES; BANDWIDTH MARKET; BUSINESS MODELS; COMMERCIAL STRUCTURES; CONTENT DELIVERY; CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK; CORE BUSINESS; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; INTERNET TRAFFIC; NATURAL EXTENSION; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; UPSTREAM DIRECTION;

INTERNET; MOBILE PHONES; WEAVING;

MULTIMEDIA SERVICES;

EID: 78650564704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIN.2010.5640943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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