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Est. 1TB
$100/mo arrow-image 50%
Est. 50TB
$5,000/mo arrow-image 50%
Est. 250TB
$12,750/mo arrow-image 50%

RESPONSE TIME

22ms arrow image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Type: Response Time
Last 24 Hours: 26/03/2023
Geography: North America
Based on: 50th Percentile

AVAILABILITY

99.64% arrow image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Type: Availability
Last 24 Hours: 26/03/2023
Geography: North America
Based on: 50th Percentile

THROUGHPUT

11,458Mbps arrow image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Type: Throughput
Last 24 Hours: 26/03/2023
Geography: North America
Based on: 50th Percentile

points of presence

123
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
34 0 4 0 0 34 4 39
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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 5

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))

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. 26 March 2023
Response Time, ms
  • 22 North America 21
  • 14 Oceania 13
  • 14 Europe 14
  • 13 Asia 11
  • 32 Africa 51
  • 19 South America 20
Response Time, ms
  • North America 22
  • Oceania 14
  • Europe 14
  • Asia 13
  • Africa 32
  • South America 19
Response Time, ms
  • North America 21
  • Oceania 13
  • Europe 14
  • Asia 11
  • Africa 51
  • South America 20
Availability, %
  • 99.64 North America 99.67
  • 99.34 Oceania 99.49
  • 99.52 Europe 99.47
  • 84.49 Asia 86.24
  • 99.39 Africa 97.91
  • 99.76 South America 99.51
Availability, %
  • North America 99.64
  • Oceania 99.34
  • Europe 99.52
  • Asia 84.49
  • Africa 99.39
  • South America 99.76
Availability, %
  • North America 99.67
  • Oceania 99.49
  • Europe 99.47
  • Asia 86.24
  • Africa 97.91
  • South America 99.51
Throughput, Mbps
  • 11,458.00 North America 18,076.00
  • 15,209.00 Oceania 15,936.00
  • 16,913.00 Europe 19,138.00
  • 26,838.00 Asia 41,558.00
  • 1,389.00 Africa 1,564.00
  • 22,727.00 South America 16,731.00
Throughput, Mbps
  • North America 11,458.00
  • Oceania 15,209.00
  • Europe 16,913.00
  • Asia 26,838.00
  • Africa 1,389.00
  • South America 22,727.00
Throughput, Mbps
  • North America 18,076.00
  • Oceania 15,936.00
  • Europe 19,138.00
  • Asia 41,558.00
  • Africa 1,564.00
  • South America 16,731.00

edge locations

Last updated July, 2018

Edge Locations: Ashburn, VA (3); Atlanta, GA (3); Boston, MA; Chicago, IL (2); Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (4); Denver, CO (2); Hayward, CA; Jacksonville, FL; Los Angeles, CA (3); Miami, FL (2); Minneapolis, MN; Montreal, QC; New York, NY (3); Newark, NJ (2); Palo Alto, CA; Philadelphia, PA; Phoenix, AZ; San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA (3); South Bend, IN; St. Louis, MO; Toronto, ON Regional Edge Caches: Virginia; Ohio; Oregon

Edge Locations: Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2); Berlin, Germany; Dublin, Ireland; Frankfurt, Germany (7); Helsinki, Finland; London, England (5); Madrid, Spain (2); Manchester, England; Marseille, France; Milan, Italy; Munich, Germany; Palermo, Italy; Paris, France (3); Prague, Czech Republic; Stockholm, Sweden (3); Vienna, Austria; Warsaw, Poland; Zurich, Switzerland Regional Edge Caches: Frankfurt, Germany; London, England

No POPs

No POPs

Edge Locations: São Paulo, Brazil (2); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2) Regional Edge Caches: São Paulo, Brazil

Edge Locations: Johannesburg, South Africa; Cape Town, South Africa

No POPs

Edge Locations: Bangalore, India; Chennai, India (2); Hong Kong, China (3); Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Mumbai, India (2); Manila, Philippines; Melbourne; New Delhi, India; Osaka, Japan; Perth; Sydney; Seoul, South Korea (4); Singapore (3); Taipei, Taiwan(3); Tokyo, Japan (8) Regional Edge Caches: Mumbai, India; Singapore; Seoul, Sydney; South Korea; Tokyo, Japan

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).

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.