At present, domestic CDN vendors are roughly divided into four categories: one is traditional CDN vendors such as NetScience and Lanxun; the other is Internet cloud vendors such as Alibaba Cloud and Paiyun; the other is solution-oriented enterprises focusing on specific fields; and the other is operators' self-built CDN networks. The third price war has pushed the overall price of CDN industry to1above 0 yuan 1M, which is several hundred times higher than that in 2008! The price war between Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud, on the one hand, caused the stock price of Internet accommodation to plummet, on the other hand, reduced the number of players in the industry. "Under the negative gross profit, some friends slowly quit." In order to recall the past few years in Liu Liang, especially since the second half of 20 16, CDN service providers have gradually withdrawn and disappeared, and now there are less than 10 manufacturers who can name them. After two years of price war, the surviving small and medium-sized manufacturers began to seek win-win cooperation, and the giants finally began to converge. In June, Alibaba Cloud launched Tencent Cloud in the CDN business, which is also one of the signs that the CDN industry will get out of the vicious circle of price war-the price war with negative gross profit did not make the giants monopolize the CDN market as they wished.
At the end of April, Yunwang, Paiyun and Dilian Network officially announced the news of tripartite strategic cooperation-Yunwang is the upstream of CDN, and Paiyun and Dilian Network are the leaders of CDN industry. In view of the first inter-industry cooperation in CDN industry, 2 1 Century Business Herald believes that "with the diminishing marginal effect of price war, the cloud service field is about to bid farewell to the price war era"; People's Daily also made a judgment that "the CDN market is rapidly shuffling, the marginal utility of price war is obviously weakened, and the industry is gradually returning to healthy competition". Cooperation with cloud network and ground connection network is another effort to integrate industry resources and reduce costs. It is also the underlying service of the Internet, but compared with IDC, the switching of CDN is very difficult, and "differentiation" has become the key to this market. "No matter where the big customers are, the service is good, but the service treatment of small and medium-sized customers is not so good. What we want to do is to let small and medium-sized customers enjoy VIP treatment. " According to Liu Liang, Youpaiyun is the first company to support programming on CDN, and its products are open source, which provides customers with the conditions for secondary development, which is unimaginable for big companies like Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud.
"When you come, you can use it. You can give feedback if you have any questions. The service team on standby at any time will definitely give a satisfactory answer. " Liu Liang emphasized the quality of service and the speed of response. "In the price war, we actively rejected some big customers in order to protect profits. Between survival and scale, we first chose survival. " Liu Liang recalled that at that time, the market was ups and downs, and even those who survived, some of them passed by big customers. Unlike the giant's market positioning and quick response speed, Liu Liang did not take the initiative to participate in the price war. With the rise of O2O, mobile Internet, especially short video and live broadcast, CDN has ushered in a further outbreak. Large companies continue to seize the market with low price strategy.