Limelight Enables Online Education With Multiple Customer Wins Across the World
September 17 2020 - 12:20PM
Business Wire
With online learning filling an unprecedented need to maintain
educational opportunities worldwide, Limelight Networks, Inc.
(Nasdaq: LLNW), a leading provider of content delivery network
(CDN) and edge cloud services, is helping EdTech companies
worldwide provide content to parents, students and teachers.
The EdTech industry has been transformed almost overnight. In
just a few months, remote learning has gone from a burgeoning
business to a virtual lifeline for students and families
everywhere. According to Limelight’s most recent global market
research, 83 percent of those surveyed believe that video-based
learning is here to stay. Companies all over the world have chosen
Limelight to deliver these vital services, two of which are
featured below:
Learning Ally, a leading nonprofit
education organization, works with children who have reading
challenges. Its Audiobook Solution offers an award-winning reading
accommodation used in 18,500 schools. With the infrastructure and
support of Limelight’s global private network, Ally was able to
quickly absorb a wave of new subscribers and expand e-learning
services. “In a matter of weeks, we added 13,800 educators and more
than 130,000 new students to the Learning Ally Audiobook Solution.
The Limelight CDN was able to support us in meeting the
requirements for the surge of audiobook listeners,” said Cynthia
Hamburger, CIO and COO at Learning Ally.
When schools closed during the pandemic in Canada, Groupe Média
TFO (TFO), a French-language specialty channel, was tapped to
create educational content for the online portal opened by its
Minister of Education to serve more than 5 million school children.
By leveraging the Limelight Video Platform to manage and distribute
its online video at scale, TFO was able to quickly create and
stream more content and handle a 60 percent increase in traffic
during the stay-at-home order. “As a result of COVID-19, we had a
very short turnaround to support the Ministry of Education’s
learn-at-home initiative and play an important role in the move to
online learning with our rich collection of educational videos. As
we reached an unprecedented number of visits on our sites, we were
hit with massive growth in bandwidth. Thankfully, our CDN
infrastructure was built on Limelight, so we were not only ready,
but we were also able to expand the initiative nationwide to
support as many families and students as possible,” said Micaël
N’Goran, Director, Solutions and Optimization at Groupe Média
TFO.
“At Limelight, we’re passionate about delivering the highest
quality online video and edge cloud services for customers across
industries,” said Dan Carney, SVP of Network Operations at
Limelight. “Serving all of our clients is satisfying, but
supporting the educational needs of children, parents and educators
globally during this difficult time is particularly
motivating.”
To find out more on how Limelight is enabling EdTech clients,
see here for detailed case studies.
About Limelight
Limelight Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLNW), a leading provider of
digital content delivery, video, cloud security, and edge computing
services, empowers customers to provide exceptional digital
experiences. Limelight’s edge services platform includes a unique
combination of global private infrastructure, intelligent software,
and expert support services that enable current and future
workflows. For more information, visit www.limelight.com, follow us
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