Verizon CDN Expands to France, Mexico and South Africa
Verizon CDN customers benefits from a network that is renowned for its speed and coverage. With points of presence located around the globe, online businesses can be sure that their data is being adequately accelerated and that their end users are able to access data quickly and efficiently.
In order to keep their network fast and competitive, the Verizon CDN must regularly expand and create new points of presence to build on their capacity and reach into new markets. As such, Verizon have recently announced that they are expanding their CDN in three strategic countries.
Verizon will be expanding their Edgecast CDN in France, Mexico and South Africa, creating new points of presence in the countries. This will resulting the Verizon CDN having a tripled network capacity, greatly increasing its ability to deal with large numbers of users and traffic spikes. The PoPs will be in Marseille (taking the total number of Edgecast PoPs in Europe up to 19), Mexico City and Johannesburg.
Verizon CDN Expansion Benefits
“In a world that’s more plugged into mobile devices than ever before, there is a critical need for digital media delivery to be secure, fast and of the highest quality – especially in fast-growing, mobile-centric markets,” commented Kyle Okamoto, chief network officer for Verizon Digital Media Services. “Through continued automation, essential network and data centre partnerships and finely tuned operations, we have exceeded expectations in scaling our network to meet today’s and tomorrow’s digital media delivery demands. We are wholly committed to continuing to invest and build out our CDN to ensure the best quality experience across gaming, application acceleration, e-commerce, media and entertainment and more.”
Verizon said in a statement: “These three cities were specifically selected with incumbent networks in the country to ensure optimal quality with a clear path to further scaling, as quality boosts lead to increased traffic growth.”