AT&T Makes Its CDN Move

AT&T (T) today announced more details of its expected effort to enter the teeming content delivery network market, naming three software partners and saying it would spend nearly $70 million on network infrastructure before the end of this year. The move is an ominous one for smaller CDN companies. The deep-pocketed telco giant, which had previously been an Akamai reseller, has two significant advantages: The ability to sell to its existing corporate customer lists, and the fact that it o