Limelight Networks Cut Power Consumption While Expanding Capacity

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Even before the covid-19 pandemic, online traffic and demand for digital content were increasing around the world. In response, the digital content delivery, video, cloud security, and edge computing services company Limelight Networks began adding more capacity last year.

This spring, the company reported that it had increased capacity to more than 70 ter Mozambique Email List abits per second with 130 points-of-presence globally since January 2019. At the same time, Limelight Networks is reducing its kilowatt-hour usage by more than 50%.

Vice president of strategic initiatives Ersin Galioglu oversees Limelight’s edge computing solutions as well as the planning, logistics, and delivery of the company’s services and products worldwide. His responsibilities include managing peer connectivity and data center strategies.

Recently Galioglu discussed how the tech-focused company improved energy efficiency and lowered power consumption while increasing capacity.



What is Limelight’s approach to energy management?

Throughput per kilowatt is our key energy metric. We have a dedicated internal group and one of their main job responsibilities is to improve this metric for our company and the environment.

In addition, when we choose data centers to deploy our hardware, when possible we try to find providers who have made a commitment to use 100% renewable energy.

How does improving energy efficiency benefit your company?

The nature of our work causes us to run hardware within an extensive network of data centers. Every year we work to expand our network of data centers, and doing this more efficiently helps our stakeholders and the environment.

By using less energy to transfer data, we’re limiting our energy waste and reducing our energy consumption. As we’ve reduced our power usage, we’ve also reduced our costs — saving money for our customers and increasing our return on investment.