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Akamai 4.8 / 5

DETAILS
Est. 1TB
$1,250/mo arrow-image 50%
Est. 50TB
$9,500/mo arrow-image 50%
Est. 250TB
$22,500/mo arrow-image 50%

RESPONSE TIME

21ms arrow image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Type: Response Time
Last 24 Hours: 07/08/2022
Geography: North America
Based on: 50th Percentile

AVAILABILITY

99.67% arrow image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Type: Availability
Last 24 Hours: 07/08/2022
Geography: North America
Based on: 50th Percentile

THROUGHPUT

17,183Mbps arrow image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Type: Throughput
Last 24 Hours: 07/08/2022
Geography: North America
Based on: 50th Percentile

points of presence

2200
Point of Presence

Total number of CDN Provider Point of Presence. CDN providers might have multiple POPs / Nodes per edge location.
  • SSl . Yes
  • HTTP/2 . Yes
  • COMPRESSION . Yes
  • IPV6 . Yes
  • ORIGIN SHIELD . Yes
  • PCI COMPLIANT . Yes
300 0 50 75 50 650 75 1000
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  • Supported
  • Additional Cost

provider’s focus

  • Supported
  • Additional Cost
  • Web 22
  • Streaming 21
  • Reseller 1
  • Private 9
  • Federation 3
  • Security 11
  • Telco 3
  • Hosting 4
  • Web 22
  • Streaming 21
  • Reseller 1
  • Private 9
  • Federation 3
  • Security 11
  • Telco 3
  • Hosting 4

pros

rating 3.9

  • Market leader with over 50% market shares based on annual revenue and has majority of fortune 500 as customers
  • Mature, scalable and established with truly global extensive footprint
  • Offer CDN, DNS, Security and Performance solutions (intelligent Real User Measurement (RUM))

rating 0

Cons

  • Charges for midress traffic (Data transfer generated between edge locations - Usually 25% of total data transfer)
  • Purging (Invalidating) cached content takes longer across the whole network as of the many edge locations
  • Bureaucratic and less flexible than other CDNs

performance

Data by Cedexis. 7 August 2022
Response Time, ms
  • 21 North America N/A
  • 11 Oceania N/A
  • 18 Europe N/A
  • 14 Asia N/A
  • 77 Africa N/A
  • 26 South America N/A
Response Time, ms
  • North America 21
  • Oceania 11
  • Europe 18
  • Asia 14
  • Africa 77
  • South America 26
Response Time, ms
  • North America N/A
  • Oceania N/A
  • Europe N/A
  • Asia N/A
  • Africa N/A
  • South America N/A
Availability, %
  • 99.67 North America N/A
  • 99.63 Oceania N/A
  • 99.22 Europe N/A
  • 82.91 Asia N/A
  • 96.01 Africa N/A
  • 96.83 South America N/A
Availability, %
  • North America 99.67
  • Oceania 99.63
  • Europe 99.22
  • Asia 82.91
  • Africa 96.01
  • South America 96.83
Availability, %
  • North America N/A
  • Oceania N/A
  • Europe N/A
  • Asia N/A
  • Africa N/A
  • South America N/A
Throughput, Mbps
  • 17,183.00 North America N/A
  • 12,638.00 Oceania N/A
  • 15,492.00 Europe N/A
  • 14,534.00 Asia N/A
  • 4,254.00 Africa N/A
  • 10,803.00 South America N/A
Throughput, Mbps
  • North America 17,183.00
  • Oceania 12,638.00
  • Europe 15,492.00
  • Asia 14,534.00
  • Africa 4,254.00
  • South America 10,803.00
Throughput, Mbps
  • North America N/A
  • Oceania N/A
  • Europe N/A
  • Asia N/A
  • Africa N/A
  • South America N/A

edge locations

Last updated August, 2018

Akamai is the only CDN provider with a decentralised network structure, bringing content closer to the end-user geographically rather than logically as all other CDNs. As such Akamai has many edge locations, by far many more than any other CDN provider, approximately 2,200 edge locations globally (Does not disclose publicly the full list).

Akamai is the only CDN provider with a decentralised network structure, bringing content closer to the end-user geographically rather than logically as all other CDNs. As such Akamai has many edge locations, by far many more than any other CDN provider, approximately 2,200 edge locations globally (Does not disclose publicly the full list).

Akamai is the only CDN provider with a decentralised network structure, bringing content closer to the end-user geographically rather than logically as all other CDNs. As such Akamai has many edge locations, by far many more than any other CDN provider, approximately 2,200 edge locations globally (Does not disclose publicly the full list).

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Akamai is the only CDN provider with a decentralised network structure, bringing content closer to the end-user geographically rather than logically as all other CDNs. As such Akamai has many edge locations, by far many more than any other CDN provider, approximately 2,200 edge locations globally (Does not disclose publicly the full list).

Akamai is the only CDN provider with a decentralised network structure, bringing content closer to the end-user geographically rather than logically as all other CDNs. As such Akamai has many edge locations, by far many more than any other CDN provider, approximately 2,200 edge locations globally (Does not disclose publicly the full list).

Akamai is the only CDN provider with a decentralised network structure, bringing content closer to the end-user geographically rather than logically as all other CDNs. As such Akamai has many edge locations, by far many more than any other CDN provider, approximately 2,200 edge locations globally (Does not disclose publicly the full list).

Akamai is the only CDN provider with a decentralised network structure, bringing content closer to the end-user geographically rather than logically as all other CDNs. As such Akamai has many edge locations, by far many more than any other CDN provider, approximately 2,200 edge locations globally (Does not disclose publicly the full list).

Ashburn, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas (2), Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New York (2), San Jose, Seattle, Toronto

Akkol, Almaty, Amsterdam, Astana, Atyrau, Baku, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Frankfurt, Kiev, Kisinau, London (3), Madrid, Milan, Minsk, Paris, Stockholm, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Yerevan

Irkutsk, Kazan, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Makhachkala, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Stavropol, Tyumen, Ufa, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg

Beijing

N/A

Antananarivo, Cape Town, Djibouti, Port Louis

Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait, Muscat, Tehran, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Baghdad, Bandar Seri Begawan, Bangalore, Bangkok (10), Bombay, Chennai, Delhi, Hamilton, Hanoi (3), Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong (9), Jakarta, Kaohsiung City, Kuala Lumpur (10), Macao, Mandaluyong, Medan, Melbourne, Osaka, Pasig, Phnom Penh (7), Seoul (3), Shanghai, Singapore (8), Surabaya, Suva, Sydney, Taipei City (10), Tokyo (2), Ulan Bator, Vientiane (2)

supported services

  • Web 22
  • Streaming 21
  • Reseller 1
  • Private 9
  • Federation 3
  • Security 11
  • Telco 3
  • Hosting 4
  • Not Supported
  • Unknown
  • Supported
  • Additional Cost
  • Cacheable Content Acceleration Commonly referred as CDN, is the core service that brings cacheable content closer to the end-users either geographically or logically by caching content on CDN pops or edges so that is scalable, available and fast to deliver.
  • Non-Cacheable Content Acceleration CDN provider creates a persistent connection between customer origin and the closest CDN edge location to eliminate the tcp 3 way handshake and tcp slow start. then applies a series of tcp optimisations (multIPlexing, etc) between CDN edge locations to deliver non-cacheable content as fast and efficiently as possible to the end-users.
  • Shared CDN Domain SSL CDN provider generates a hostname that is used by customer to HTTPs. domain and SSL certificate belongs to CDN provider.
  • Shared IP SSL Hosting Commonly called SNI, your SSL certificate is hosted in each CDN pop/edge location on a shared IP among other certificates. SNI SSL it’s not supported by some older browsers like IE6 and it’s not as secure as dedicated IP.
  • Dedicated IP SSL Hosting your SSL certificate is hosted in each CDN pop/edge location on a dedicated IP and dedicated resources.
  • RTMP to RTMP Streaming customer origin publishes RTMP format and CDN provider delivers in RTMP format.
  • RTMP to HTTP Streaming customer origin publishes RTMP format and CDN provider transcode to HTTP and delivers in HTTP format.
  • HTTP to HTTP Streaming customer origin publishes HTTP format and CDN provider delivers in HTTP format .