How to Choose a Virtual CDN for Live Events Learn more about virtual CDNs at the next Content Delivery Summit. See complete videos and other highlights from Content Delivery Summit on Streaming Media's YouTube channel. Read the complete transcript of this video: Jim Brickmeier: When choosing a virtual CDN for live events, there are lots of options out there, in terms of if you have your own network versus if you don't. If you have your own network, there's there's software out there that you can use that's fully virtualized and allows you to spin up capacity as needed to support live events and spin it back down when you don't need it. I think that's the key advantage of some of the virtualized technologies and some of the orchestration capabilities of things like Kubernetes and so on, that you can be responsive to demand and try to be as cost-effective as possible.