We performed a comparison between Akamai and Verizon EdgeCast based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, Microsoft, Akamai and others in CDN."The solution's technical support is very good...The installation phase of Akamai was easy."
"Akamai is leveraged by many top-level businesses, ensuring reliability and support in case of outages or issues."
"Akamai provides low-latency throughput."
"This solution can be used for web , video and media caching and streaming."
"We can see how much traffic can be downloaded on the portal."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it has been quite helpful in our company, especially when it comes to applications needing updates frequently."
"If an attacker conducts an attack, we can check what query he is running and whether he wants to see our password or any other files."
"The most valuable feature in managing web traffic has been the ability to handle vertical scaling effectively."
"The Rules Engine V4 is the most valuable feature."
"It's super easy to use and integrate with."
"The product is easy to use and easy to implement."
"Local connectivity would be great linked to our own telecom/Cablevision CDN."
"I'd like to see more Web 3.0 and IoT solutions."
"Akamai's configuration part is an area of concern where improvements are required to make the process easy."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"Akamai could improve by providing its own cloud services. We have to use third-party cloud services at this time, such as Amazon AWS. The offering becomes a lot easier for an SMB if everything was in one single platform to be used for the services."
"It would be better if we could be notified about specific attacks."
"One area for improvement with Akamai could be pricing."
"The solution could offer more integrations."
"The web interface of the Verizon Edgecast portal is very old. It's not user-friendly, slow, and it is missing some valuable features like the ability to make bulk changes."
"In the next release, I would like to see more global endpoints for their CDN and a lower price."
"We could not create more than 15 custom rules."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Verizon EdgeCast is ranked 12th in CDN with 3 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Verizon EdgeCast is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Akamai writes "An easy to setup product offering multiple useful functionalities under a single package". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Verizon EdgeCast writes "The product is easy to use and easy to implement, but we have to raise new feature requests frequently because the product is new". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Amazon CloudFront and Windows Azure CDN, whereas Verizon EdgeCast is most compared with Edgio Global CDN, Windows Azure CDN, Cloudflare, Azure Front Door and Amazon CloudFront.
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