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Limelight Networks Leveraged as Content Delivery Network for Xbox 360-- Posted by XanTium on December 7 13:48 EST
From the press release:

Limelight Networks today announced that it is the Content Delivery Network for Microsoft's just-launched Xbox 360 video game system and Xbox Live, the online gaming service for the Xbox video game system from Microsoft now included with every system. Microsoft is leveraging Limelight Networks for delivery of trailers and game demos during one of the most important product launches in its history to ensure that Xbox Live audiences receive the best performance with any downloaded content.

"With the launch of Xbox 360 we're taking Xbox Live to new heights. Now that our customers can download game demos, high-definition movie trailers, and more, we need to be prepared for dramatic increases in traffic," said Xbox Live Operations Manager Eric Neustadter. "Working with Limelight Networks allows us to easily scale to any level of demand."

Read the whole press release here.

[110100100]

the speed is definately there, i downloaded the guantlet demo yesterday (34mb) and it finished before i got back from the fridge (<1min on my 6mb cable)

[MrPhunkee]

Not here, still fcing slow  

[cyberg4]

yeah, the stuff downloads so slow (or so it seems).  It would be nce to have a kbps indicator during the downoads, because while i know some files are large, they DL goes so slow and seems to go at  <100 kbps, but I may be wrong.

[XeteX]

The speed is terrible! I have 10/10MB connection and 40mb arcade demo took almost half an hour to download thats worse than ISDN  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) . At least thats the case in here northern Europe!

[Arius]

Live arcade has been fine for me.

Demos and what not is slow as hell.

[Ub3rn3wb]

whoa... Limelight is just down the street from me, crazy. @@;;

As far as download speeds go; yeah, it does seem pretty slow. Games seem pretty good, but the arcade stuff isn't so speedy.

[Zipp425]

QUOTE(110100100 @ Dec 7 2005, 11:21 AM)

the speed is definately there, i downloaded the guantlet demo yesterday (34mb) and it finished before i got back from the fridge (<1min on my 6mb cable)

Youre a lucky man!

[OcnewB]

This is what im getting when i donwload games/trailers/arcade whatever..

[prankfurter]

slow on my 5Mb connection...

took about 9 mins last night to download the 90MB x3 HD trailer...

[MrPhunkee]

(IMG:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/mrphunkee/MWSnap002.jpg)

[110100100]

i guess i might have a slight connection advantage, i'm literally 1.5 miles away from Comcasts internet data center here in denver co.

This post has been edited by 110100100: Dec 8 2005, 01:39 AM

[spinr34]

speeds are fine for me in southern cali.  only thing i wish they would implement is a way to minimize or send a download to the background and a notification pop up when it's finished. i hate looking at the download screen waiting for things to download and it's the main reason why i don't download things.

[jfoster]

QUOTE(XeteX @ Dec 7 2005, 03:24 PM)

The speed is terrible! I have 10/10MB connection and 40mb arcade demo took almost half an hour to download thats worse than ISDN  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) . At least thats the case in here northern Europe!

Then you don't have 10mb/10mb - or EU mirrors or infrastructure sucks.

[lowendfrequency]

I downloaded the NFS:MW demo in 5 minutes, so speeds are pretty quick right now.  I deleted the game after 5 minutes as well.