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The flash demo jerked and jumped around in bandwidth a lot.

The SilverLight demo worked better, but the picture was worse than the Flash version.

BitGravity works wonderfully though. Also, we've been using Panther/CDNetworks without a hitch. They even support HTTP pseudo streaming.

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> The flash demo jerked and jumped around in bandwidth a lot.

Not only that it was taking 90% of my CPU to display something that did not look even close to 720p in size. And how can they get away with calling that looks more like 360p HD, anyway? I am not impressed.

All the international footprint video delivery networks support 2 mbps streams, and Akamai is not the only one (not even the first) to support the various flavors of adaptive streaming, from Windows Media "MBR" to Silverlight's Smooth Streaming to Apple's adaptive HTTP. Akamai's just the first to take what's been working great on all these networks for months or years and say, "Oh, we could press release this and because we say so, everyone will think it's new and unique!"

It's good to be the incumbent.

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