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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

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rating 3.6

  • Mature, scalable and established with truly global footprint
  • Great performance in Middle East, Africa, Latin America and China
  • Fast responding engineering support / NOC
  • Offer CDN, DNS and Security solutions

Cons

  • 85% self provisioning online admin (Some service implementation or configuration require support intervention)

performance

Data by Cedexis. 6 December 2023
Response Time, ms
  • 43 North America 48
  • 241 Oceania 18
  • 26 Europe 20
  • 33 Asia 20
  • 24 Africa 125
  • 24 South America 27
Response Time, ms
  • North America 43
  • Oceania 241
  • Europe 26
  • Asia 33
  • Africa 24
  • South America 24
Response Time, ms
  • North America 48
  • Oceania 18
  • Europe 20
  • Asia 20
  • Africa 125
  • South America 27
Availability, %
  • 98.31 North America 97.96
  • 99.18 Oceania 99.76
  • 98.32 Europe 99.46
  • 96.17 Asia 98.65
  • 96.77 Africa 99.10
  • 95.65 South America 99.43
Availability, %
  • North America 98.31
  • Oceania 99.18
  • Europe 98.32
  • Asia 96.17
  • Africa 96.77
  • South America 95.65
Availability, %
  • North America 97.96
  • Oceania 99.76
  • Europe 99.46
  • Asia 98.65
  • Africa 99.10
  • South America 99.43
Throughput, Mbps
  • 7,153.00 North America 8,273.00
  • 1,669.00 Oceania 7,313.00
  • 14,898.00 Europe 16,710.00
  • 9,039.00 Asia 9,828.00
  • 1,957.00 Africa 1,794.00
  • 13,683.00 South America 16,197.00
Throughput, Mbps
  • North America 7,153.00
  • Oceania 1,669.00
  • Europe 14,898.00
  • Asia 9,039.00
  • Africa 1,957.00
  • South America 13,683.00
Throughput, Mbps
  • North America 8,273.00
  • Oceania 7,313.00
  • Europe 16,710.00
  • Asia 9,828.00
  • Africa 1,794.00
  • South America 16,197.00

edge locations

Last updated July, 2018

Ashburn, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Jose, Seattle

Paris, Frankfurt, London

No POPs

Anhui, Beijing, Changchun, Chongqing, Dallying, Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hebei, Hefei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Inner, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Mongolia, Nanjing, Qinghai, Shanghai, Shanxi, Sichuan, Urumqi, Wuhan, Xian, Xinjiang, Yinchuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang

Sao Paulo

No POPs

No POPs

Honk Kong, Jakarta, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Mongolia, Philippines, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, Thailand, Tokyo, Vietnam

Ashburn(2), Atlanta (GA / 2), Chicago (IL / 2), Dallas (TX / 2), Los Angeles (CA / 2), Miami (FL / 2), New York (NY / 2), San José (CA / 2), Seattle (WA), Toronto (ON / Canada), Washington (DC)

Amsterdam (The Nederlands), Ankara (Turkey), Brussels (Belgium), Bucharest (Romania), Dublin (Ireland), Frankfurt (Germany / 3), Istanbul (Turkey), Lisbon (Portugal), London (United Kingdom / 2), Madrid (Spain), Milan (Italy), Palermo (Itlay), Paris (France / 3), Stockholm (Sweden), Warsaw (Poland)

Chelyabinsk, Chita, Kazan, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Petropavlovsk, Pskov, Rostov, Samara, Tomsk, Veliki Novgorod, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg

Beijing, Changde, Chongquing, Dongguan, Ezhou, Foshan, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Jinan, Leshan, Shanghai, Shenyang, Taiyuan, Tangshan, Tianjin, Xian, Zhangjiagang, Zhengzhou

Buenos Aires (2), Lima, Medellin, Mexico City (Mexico), Rio de Janeiro (2), Santiago, Sao Paulo (2)

Cape Town, Dar es salaam, Jeddah, Johannesburg (2)

Ankara, Baghdad (2), Cairo, Doha, Dubai (3), Istambul, Kuwait, Muscat, Tel Aviv, Ulaanbaatar

Bangkok(5), Chennai (2), Hanoi, Hanoi, Hochimin(2), Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Jakarta, Kaohsiung, KualaLumpur(2), Manila,(2), Mumbai (2), Osaka, Seoul(5), Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo(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 .
  • Image Optimization