Vodafone partners with Qwilt and Cisco to deploy CDN across Europe and Africa

Vodafone has deployed Qwilt and Cisco’s content delivery network (CDN) solution to boost the quality and capacity of Vodafone’s streaming delivery to its mobile and fixed broadband customers across Europe and Africa. 

The solution is comprised of Qwilt’s Open Edge platform and Cisco’s Edge technology, It provides Quality-as-a-Service content delivery by pushing content caching and delivery far out to the embedded edge of the network. Content publishers can use the joint solution to deliver content closer to users, significantly improving the viewing quality. .

Vodafone will embed the solution at the edge of its networks so that customers can receive highly responsive and quality streaming services. This model will allow Vodafone to expand the solution and business opportunities to other content and application owners.

Vodafone has already tested the solution in Italy and will roll out the service in seven countries across Europe and Africa.

The roll-out of services will progressively ramp up as Qwilt and Cisco work with additional service providers worldwide in a move to create the world’s largest federated CDN.

Giorgio Migliarina, products and services director, Vodafone Business, said: “Our partnership with Qwilt and Cisco enables Vodafone and its broadcast partners to deliver a superior streaming service to customers. It means less buffering and lower latency services for the end user.

“Also, by using open caching, we can more easily scale the service to meet the growing demands for live streaming, video-on-demand, and application services whilst providing content providers with a standardized platform built on Open APIs across multiple countries in Europe and Africa.”

Nadia Benabdallah, Network Strategy and Engineering director, Vodafone Technology, said: “In recent years we have built one of the largest internet networks worldwide. It connects all Vodafone markets, strategic partners and many millions of our customers to an integrated globally scaled platform.

“We continue to evolve our strategy, setting ever higher industry standards for our customers and remaining one of the strongest players in the market. We are now excited to start a new phase of this strategy. One that will strengthen the quality of the service delivered to our customers, further decrease the cost of gigabits carried and open new opportunities for business growth.”