Lumen, J-Stream to offer CDN services in Japan

Lumen Technologies has partnered J-Stream to deliver secure, scalable and high-performing content delivery network (CDN) services to customers in Japan. The collaboration allows both companies to better meet the requirements of major corporations, broadcasters, as well as video game and over-the-top (OTT) operators in the country that require large-scale, global distribution of content.

The Asia Pacific CDN market is seeing the number of Internet subscribers increase rapidly and consumption of content over smartphones and other portable devices. The CDN market in Asia Pacific and Japan is projected to record the highest growth rate in 2020, increasing 31.7% year over year, according to IDC*.

To support this demand, Lumen recently doubled its CDN footprint in key APAC markets, strengthening its capacity in 11 major cities across the region. In Japan, local points of presence in Osaka and Tokyo promote high-performance delivery of video and web applications, while an in-country network operations centre (NOC) and Japanese customer success teams offer tailored support across the Lumen portfolio. Additionally, Lumen offers a comprehensive application delivery platform encompassing video and web delivery, mesh delivery technology, multi-CDN orchestration, digital download optimisation, high-performance object-based storage, as well as edge computing.

Melissa Margolius, Senior Director, Wholesale Sales, Lumen Technologies Asia Pacific, commented: “Together with J-Stream, we aim to help customers in Japan deliver their rich content to audiences and users globally, reliably and successfully. Customers will be able to tap into Lumen’s high-performance, extensive global delivery network and benefit from our edge-based service offerings and key features like our object storage capabilities. In recent months, we have also expanded our global delivery models, especially across Asia Pacific and Latin America, to enable our customers to deliver their content in some of the hardest to reach locations in the world.”

Mayumi Hayasaka, Corporate Officer, CDN & Video Platform Business Unit, J-Stream said: “Today, we are seeing tremendous demand for large-scale distribution of content amongst Japanese and international companies based here. This stems from the large-scale events we have in Japan that are of interest internationally, as well as video games with a huge global following, and video and audio content that is popular all over the world. In addition, Internet traffic is on a significant upward trend, and is expected to continue to increase in the future considering recent world events, the spread of telework, and an exponential increase in online events. 

"The scale and strength of Lumen’s network will allow us to expand our services and we also look forward to leveraging a multi-CDN configuration including Lumen CDN to further ensure the reliability and stability of our content delivery services to customers.”

CenturyLink is referred to as Lumen Technologies, or simply Lumen - the Lumen brand was launched in September 2020. Lumen has approximately 450,000 route fibre miles and customers in more than 60 countries. The Lumen CDN is trusted by nine of the world’s 10 largest media companies.

J-Stream is synonymous with streaming services in Japan as the first company to offer streaming services in the country. With J-Stream's own CDN as the core, the company offers end-to-end video business solutions from content distribution to creative services and video ad services. J-Stream has the largest market share in the Japanese online video platform market today.

*IDC Worldwide Content Delivery Network Forecast, 2020–2024, #US45289220 May 2020.

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