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Edgio Global CDN

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Eduardo Oviedo-Blanco
A CDN solution to enhance loading times and streamline navigation
Anonymous User
Offers an edge and shield configuration, enhancing security and performance and integrates seamlessly with deployed...
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  • "In my opinion, Fastly is priced competitively."
  • "It is an expensive solution."
  • "The solution is cheaper than other products in the market."
  • "I've generally found Fastly to be very competitive in pricing, especially around Compute@Edge."
  • "Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."
  • "The pricing has been very competitive."

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    Questions from the Community
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Edgio Global CDN?
    Top Answer:The product is affordable.
    What needs improvement with Edgio Global CDN?
    Top Answer:Edgio could improve their documentation.
    What is your primary use case for Edgio Global CDN?
    Top Answer:We use the solution for high volume traffic. It is used across various e-commerce platforms to enhance loading times and streamline navigation, ultimately optimizing user experience.
    What do you like most about Fastly?
    Top Answer:Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fastly?
    Top Answer:The pricing has been very competitive.
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    What needs improvement with Fastly?
    Top Answer:Stronger analytics would be helpful like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused… more »
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    Ranking
    21st
    out of 43 in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection
    Views
    540
    Comparisons
    429
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    312
    Rating
    9.0
    10th
    out of 43 in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection
    Views
    1,008
    Comparisons
    851
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    591
    Rating
    8.6
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    Limelight Content Delivery, Limelight Orchestrate Delivery, Limelight Origin Storage
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    Edgio
    Fastly
    Overview

    Edgio helps build and deliver secure web apps across the globe in milliseconds. Our fully programmable edge network offers comprehensive services to maximize security, performance availability and site operations. 

    All services run at the edge of our private, global network with 250 Tbps of bandwidth capacity. We process 5% of all web traffic and are rapidly growing. Edgio is trusted and relied on by TD Ameritrade, Plus500, Solvay Bank, Yahoo, Deckers Brands, and Coach.

    We offer two best-of-breed CDN services, depending on your needs:

    Global CDN: Ranked as one of the fastest and largest CDNs on earth – our private global network gives you the reliability, bandwidth, and compute capacity to support the most demanding media and software downloads worldwide.

    Next-Gen Web CDN: Natively unify fundamental web application services for protection, acceleration, and development. Our web CDN enables better coordination, management and visibility across your web and API properties. 

    Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust Fastly’s edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand.
    Sample Customers
    TD Ameritrade, Plus500, Solvay Bank, Yahoo, Deckers Brands, and Coach
    Twitter, Airbnb, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times, Ticketmaster, The Drupal Association, Opera, about.com, imgur, Etsy, Foursquare, GitHub, New Relic, shopify, Shazam, Firebase
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Healthcare Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Retailer8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise61%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    Edgio Global CDN is ranked 21st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 1 review while Fastly is ranked 10th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 6 reviews. Edgio Global CDN is rated 9.0, while Fastly is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Edgio Global CDN writes "A CDN solution to enhance loading times and streamline navigation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". Edgio Global CDN is most compared with Verizon EdgeCast, Fortinet FortiDDoS, Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and Amazon CloudFront, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Akamai, Amazon CloudFront and Imperva DDoS.

    See our list of best Web Application Firewall (WAF) vendors, best Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection vendors, and best CDN vendors.

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