Mx Player uses Limelight Networks for quality broadcast of Lok Sabha Elections to millions of viewers

Limelight Networks, Inc., a leading provider of edge cloud services, has announced that MX Player used Limelight’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) to provide a seamless and a broadcast quality experience to millions of viewers watching the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. More than 900 million Indian citizens were eligible to vote, making it the largest election in the world.

At its peak, traffic was flowing at 10 times the normal volume during the election. Using Limelight’s CDN, MX Player handled anticipated traffic spikes and successfully managed to provide a seamless and broadcast quality experience on millions of connected devices to their Indian and global customers.

"With 100 million daily active users and 275 million monthly active users, MX Player is the largest video platform from India. We partnered with Limelight Networks to deliver high-performance video to our large user base. On May 23, the day elections results came out, we saw a 10x spike from our usual traffic trend. I’m very happy to see that the teams from both sides have integrated a really robust system, which was able to deliver billions of requests on this day smoothly and successfully,” said Vivek Jain, Chief of Product, Tech & Operations, MX Player.

“As a long time CDN and video delivery partner, Limelight Networks was honoured for the opportunity to support this milestone event. We’ll continue to scale and innovate on our journey with MX Player and our other media customers and keep providing high quality services to their online audiences,” said Ashwin Rao, Director, India at Limelight Networks.

Limelight Networks has been working with MX Player and other content originators and distributors to address their global content delivery needs. The company delivers rich content such as video, games, and software into India for its global customers.  At the same time, Limelight has been helping Indian media companies deliver content to their global customers.   

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