EdgeCast offers a superior global content delivery platform that gives customers a competitive advantage in the delivery of digital media. Their content delivery platform provides customers the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling their own content delivery network while liberating them from bandwidth contracts, capital investments and operational hassles.
Their facilities leverage bandwidth from the top international IP transit carriers and reach the greatest population of internet end users in every global market.
Additionally, their bandwidth buying power works to customers' benefits, giving them access to large volume discounts thanks to economies of scale. EdgeCast offers customers cutting-edge storage and edge caching infrastructure across which their applications and content have guaranteed performance and delivery. And best of all, it gives customers instant scale with no capital costs.
Servers and datacentres:
16 Points of Presence (POPs) located around North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Selected customers:
300+, including CBS Interactive, Lionsgate Entertainment, Mahalo, March Entertainment, EMI, Jaman, IMAX, Blip.tv, and Mashable.
Unique selling point:
The EdgeCast EdgeDirector feature is a routing protocol and load balancing technology for serving content requests from the location with the shortest delivery time. Traditional content delivery platforms use DNS routing methods that require multiple levels of DNS triangulation before the content can be served. EdgeDirector combines the instant response of one of a fast DNS infrastructure with routing protocols to ensure that content is delivered via the fastest POP, regardless of location.
