Cotendo Empowers Meebo to Optimize Global Web Performance
Cotendo's Advanced Domain Name Service (ADNS) and CDN Balancer Enable Meebo to Efficiently Balance Traffic Between Datacenters and Support Its Real-Time Content Sharing Strategy
Sunnyvale, CA(08 Jun 2010)
Cotendo, an innovative CDN and Site Acceleration Services Provider, today announced that Meebo, the company that enables real-time social interactions across multiple social networks and services, has integrated two flagship Cotendo CDN services into its industry leading platform. Meebo is leveraging Cotendo's Advanced Domain Name Service (ADNS) and CDN Balancer as key infrastructure services for efficiently routing traffic between its two datacenters on both coasts of the United States. In doing so, Cotendo is promoting Meebo's mission to let users instantly connect, share, and communicate with all of their friends.
"Cotendo's web acceleration services are playing a key role in our business by helping us provide faster response to our end users, who can now reach a server site closer to them geographically," said Simon Yeo, Senior Director of Operations at Meebo. "By enabling us to easily expand our footprint beyond a single site, the Cotendo website acceleration services are critically important for our strategy. We are well-positioned to become the preferred provider for the millions of users who want to communicate and share content in real-time across different social networks and services."
"We are proud to provide a foundation for Meebo's success as one of the Web's fastest growing social media companies," said Ronni Zehavi, Cotendo's CEO. "Our acceleration services will help ensure that Meebo continues to meet the requirements for the instant delivery of billions of instant messages monthly to its users in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and the Asia/Pacific regions."
About Meebo
Meebo socially connects over 100 million users across the web allowing them to instantly connect, share, and communicate with all of their friends. Because Meebo integrates all social network and communication channels into a single, simple-to-use interface, users can easily share content and communicate in real time with the people who matter to them. Meebo connects people to their friends on the thousands of websites that have installed the Meebo bar, on mobile devices, and with Meebo Messenger. Meebo was founded in 2005 and is a privately held company headquartered in Mountain View, CA. For more information, visit www.meebo.com.
About Cotendo
Cotendo is a CDN and Site Acceleration Services Provider and an innovator of software-focused site acceleration technologies. Cotendo's full suite of site acceleration services is addressing an important unmet need that Internet content and web application providers have for application-level flexibility and sophisticated management of performance and cost. Cotendo is led by experts in intelligent content management and content delivery networks. Founded in 2008, Cotendo is funded by Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Tenaya Capital. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with R&D based in Israel. For more information about Cotendo and its CDN and Site Acceleration Services Suite, visit www.cotendo.com.