Barrett Lyon: Internet Influencer


Barrett got started running a Bulletin Board Service (BBS) turned ISP. It was there that he began his lifelong battle against hackers. That experience was useful years later when he was asked to architect a defense for a sports information network that supplied scores and such to
That led to the creation of Prolexic Technologies. Prolexic is a hosting service that proxies a client’s website, DNS, and email servers. Thanks to huge amounts of burstable bandwidth, negotiated with Barrett’s friends in the backbone business, and hardened servers and routers, Prolexic is able to defend a customer’s Internet presence against the simultaneous attacks from tens of thousands of zombies.
It is hard to catch up with Barrett these days because he is immersed in his next project. What would someone who grew up with the Internet and has learned its inner workings do next? His answer:
I'm currently building BitGravity (http://www.bitgravity.com). We are the next generation of content distribution. For the first time in a while, innovation is being pushed by the applications on the Internet. Businesses are incorporating more immersive and media rich content into their websites and people are finding successful models in Internet based video. Unfortunately, they are limited to the current networks that were designed in the mid 90's. I can't go a single day without seeing a video clip that does not play well or at all. BitGravity's network is designed to scale beyond those problems with a number of innovations that allow faster and more reliable delivery of content.
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