internet founded august 2006 ; 10 years ago 2006 08 headquarters santa monica california key people alex kazerani ceo & founder james segil president & founder phil goldsmith cro & founder jay sakata cto & founder lior elazary chief research officer & founder number of employees 200 2012 1 parent verizon communications website edgecast.com edgecast networks is a los angeles ca based content delivery network cdn . the company was founded in 2006 and was funded by the venture arm of the walt disney company steamboat ventures . 2 3 it has cdn reseller agreements with deutsche telekom 4 global crossing 5 navisite 6 7 the company is notable for its self provisioning cdn technology used by the telecommunication and hosting industries . 8 9 10 edgecast networks was rated the no. 3 cdn in the industry by the yankee group in august 2009 11 and turned ebita positive in q2 of 2009 . 12 edgecast networks was ranked 13th on the deloitte fast 500 list for north america 2012 . 13 on december 9 2013 the verizon and edgecast boards of directors approved verizon s acquisition of edgecast and the deal was closed on december 23 2013 . 14 15 see also edit content delivery network streaming media external links edit edgecast networks web site references edit edgecast cdn planet . cdn planet . retrieved 20 december 2012 . white b. disney s steamboat invests in content delivery firm the wall street journal dec 10 2007 munarriz r. a. the mouse nibbles away at akamai the motley fool dec 11 2007 gardner w. d. jan 27 2009 . edgecast dt partner on content delivery network player informationweek.com gubbins e. feb 9 2009 global crossing quietly starts cdn strategy telephonyonline.com dead link rayburn d. feb 4 2009 navisite to resell cdn services from edgecast streamingmedia.com . cooper r. the planet partners with edgecast for content delivery network www.cdnevangelist.com dec 22 2008 chappell c. may 30 2009 cdns the business case rayburn d. aug 11 2009 the future of the cdn market www.streamingmedia.com gubbins e. aug 13 2009 carriers standalone cdns squeeze one another telephonyonline.com adkoli j. aug 21 2009 edgecast bags third position in yankee group s 2009 cdn scorecard www.tmcnet.com rayburn d. oct 14 2009 content delivery network edgecast now profitable ebita positive since q2 www.blog.streamingmedia.com edgecast networks makes it to deloitte s 2012 technology fast 500 list for north america cdn advisor.com november 17 2012 1 verizon press release december 9 2013 2 verizon press release january 6 2014 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title edgecast networks & oldid 743512119 categories companies based in los angelesinternet companies of the united statescompanies established in 2006content delivery networkhidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from january 2011use mdy dates from january 2012 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 00 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view