This podcast in the seires “Beyond Global Waves” discusses the history of the Content Delivery Network (CDN), highlighting its Italian origins.
In the mid-1990s, NEXUS-International Broadcasting Association, a non-profit broadcast and technology incubator based in Milan, Italy, pioneered the first experiments with this technology. This first-ever CDN was called WordDirector and was developed by NEXUS-IBA R&D lab in Milano, Italy in 1994, and used for beta-testing of the RealAudio technology, the first audio streaming technology used by NEXUS-IBA to broadcast radio programs internationally across the Internet.
NEXUS subsequently launched the first commercial version of its CDN (WorldDirector) in 1995, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of content delivery. This technology was later exploited commercially and has been made available through Milano Ventures, an Irish company based in Dublin.
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