A CDN is a geographically dispersed network of various cache servers or proxy servers also known as edge servers. It is a network of connected servers that delivers content to end users based on various factors, such as the end user’s geographic location, webpage’s origin, and the server’s location. CDN replicates or stores multiple copies of content or media (streaming audio, video, and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), web pages, applications, software, and so on) on strategically dispersed servers at different locations. Hence, CDN removes the load from the origin server and speeds up the delivery of the replicated content requested by multiple clients at the same time. For example, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) or telecom companies can have CDN to deliver static and dynamic web content over their network. CDN delivers content at available bandwidth, with lower latency, high performance, secured environment, and much faster content delivery. It makes copies of the content to be delivered and stores these copies on dispersed servers. When an end user requests for content or site pages that are part of the CDN, the request is redirected to servers, which are the closest to end users requesting the content.

VISIONARY LEADERS

Visionary leaders are the leading market players in terms of new developments such as product launches, innovative technologies, and the adoption of growth strategies. These players have a broad product offering that caters to most of the regions globally. Visionary leaders primarily focus on acquiring the leading market position through their strong financial capabilities and their well-established brand equity.

DYNAMIC DIFFERENTIATORS

Dynamic Differentiators are established players with very strong business strategies. However, they have a weaker product portfolio compared to the visionary leaders. They generally focus only on a specific type of technology related to the product.

INNOVATORS

Innovators in the competitive leadership mapping are vendors that have demonstrated substantial product innovations as compared to their competitors. The companies have focused on product portfolios. However, they do not have very strong growth strategies for their overall business, when compared with the visionary leaders.

EMERGING COMPANIES

Emerging companies have niche product and service offerings. Their business strategies are not as strong as that of the established vendors. The emerging vendors include the new entrants in the market, emerging in terms of product portfolio and geographic reach, and require time to gain significant traction in the market.

Content Delivery Network (CDN) Startups

Comparing 33 vendors in Content Delivery Network (CDN) Startups across 107 criteria.
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The USP of 5CENTSCDN in CDN Startups is that it offers incredibly low pricing starting at just 5 cents per GB for customers with low traffic. It also offers advanced features like DDoS protection, Smart Routing, Instant Purge, Edge Cache Optimization, and a ton of other features at a fraction of the cost of other larger CDNs. Finally, it utilizes world-class infrastructure from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to ensure fast and reliable delivery of content to end users.
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The American based cloud computing service provider Fastly was founded in 2011 and allowed users to use its edge cloud platform, which is intended to assist developers in increasing their core cloud infrastructure to the edge of the network. The Fastly edge cloud platform adds its content delivery network, video & streaming, cloud security, image optimization, and load balancing services.

For a more enhanced web and mobile delivery, the company's edge cloud platform accelerates dynamic assets, and caching changes the content unpredictably.
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Content is an essential portfolio for Broadpeak, and they are committed to providing various tools along with CDN Management. They have something called the umbrellaCDNTM, which helps to specify the video content need of a company. The experience is excellent in Broadpeak as the Company cares to ask their clients about the need. These help in making the service a great experience for an affordable rate. The only rule they maintain is cohesiveness.
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Stackpath is a renowned name in the world of technology, and they are primarily known for their CDN services which enhances the content delivery. The Company is quite transparent about the things that they offer. Rather than dumbing down ideas, the Company has employed an intelligent way of doing things. Caching and purging are plus points of this platform, and they can be customized according to the need of the client.
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Distil Networks has already managed to earn its name as the top-rated software company that is a global leader in data management services. For CDN services, it offers sophisticated technology that caters to the needs of the customers.The professional team employed at DISTIL are already trained professionals. As far as CDN services are concerned, users get t to integrate BoT defence and DDOS services for the same price with CDN.
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If you are within the entertainment or media industry, then G-Core Labs is the best option for you. They offer quality and reliable CDN services for video content. One of the main advantages of G-Core Labs is that they always promise ultrafast speeds. No matter what content type of size, the services can be trusted for high user-end delivery. They also offer services on the global platform. The services are ideal for both dedicated as well as a virtual network.
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Zixi is known as a central hub for managing, processing, and distributing quality video content from anywhere to anywhere. It serves over 500 top media companies around the world. Zixi offers a cloud-operating live streaming platform that delivers broadcast-quality video over IP flawlessly and securely to broadcasters, sports networks, and video distribution service providers at lower costs.
Zixi offers a flexible workflow solution for the broadcasters and mobile service providers, which helps media companies in sourcing, managing, monitoring and distributing secured live events using IP networks.
With a pathway to quality video content distribution, the ZEN Master control plane also offers exclusive technologies such as constant visibility that maintains the unsurpassed content, allows to choose the video transport quality, and offers top-class security that includes encryption and password protection conform to DTLS standards.
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Aryaka Network is a name that is related to reliability and fast CDN delivery. The company is high performing in the present time. It aims at offering unique and innovative CDN services to its users. The services are designed for applications and contents that are IP and Web-based.

It offers Smart CDN solutions for its clients. The services offered are flexible and dynamic at the same time. The apps provided by ARYAKA are designed to perform faster within any platform globally.

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Instart is a company that is present to provide one of the best-globalized content delivery network platforms that a business can get. The platform has been automated so that the work is faster and the clients cannot even complain about the failure. A high point of Instart is that they value personalization as companies can differ among themselves. They are helpful to their clients and guide them to get the best out of the platform.
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Section a group of Venture Capital firms to present a better platform for Dev and Ops Engineers. Dedicated towards CDN - allows fast and secure transfer of assets needed for loading Internet content, including HTML pages, JavaScript files, stylesheets, images, and videos. Engaged in improvising static assets performance and helps to speed up downloads and reduce latency. Worked across various industries - eCommerce, SaaS, Gaming, IoT / IIoT, Magento, WordPress.

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KEYCDN is one of the leading CDN (Content Delivery Network) companies and is known for its reliable, secure, and fast delivery of content worldwide. KEYCDN stands out from other CDN companies due to its advanced caching mechanisms, real-time analytics and intuitive tools, and powerful API. KEYCDNs dynamic content acceleration makes it one of the fastest CDN providers available, with up to 50% faster content delivery than other CDN companies. KEYCDN also integrates with popular cloud hosting platforms like AWS and Azure, making it easy to quickly set up and get started with their CDN services. With strong security measures and a focus on transparency, KEYCDN is a trusted choice for startups and businesses looking for a reliable and secure content-delivery solution.
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SwiftServe is the new name in the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) market. Presently operated by Conversant, and has a strong POP presence across the Asian market, particularly Indonesia. It offers the optimal performance of web properties essential to increase productivity and cut costs. Services designed to support businesses of all sizes and forms of online presence. Wide range of products: Dynamic content delivery, Small and Large file delivery, Live Video Streaming with a Private CDN
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In simple terms, BunnyCDN can be defined as 'fast, simple, and user-centred services.' Developers already claim that the services can offer your website with Bunny fast speed for the best user experience for video content. It guarantees a performance that is highly rated by users as state of the art performance.

The most important parts are that Bunny CDN offers services that are cost-effective as compared to others in the industry. For first-time users, the services can also be used free of cost for over 14 days under a trial period.

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? NETLIFYs USP in the CDN startup market is their ability to provide a comprehensive edge infrastructure with low latency, high performance, and scalability. NETLIFYs edge architecture supports a variety of applications with features like global redundancy, multi-region failover, and load-balancing. In addition to this, NETLIFY has built in features such as A/B testing, caching, and auto-scaling that make it easy to optimize the performance of web applications and content delivery. Lastly, their built-in security features ensure that your data remains secure and private throughout the delivery process.
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If you need high accuracy with video and other contents deliver for your website, then BelugaCDN is the right option for you. The services offered by BelugaCDN can be compared to cloud-based services. BelugaCDN provides state-of-the-art content delivery at light speed.

Another significant advantage of BelugaCDN is that the services are more cost-effective as compared to other similar services in the market. The moment you are looking around for cheap CDN services, then BelugaCDN is the best.

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CDNsun is a leading Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider helping customers advance their online businesses with solutions such as website acceleration, software & game delivery, ad serving, live streaming and on-demand video streaming at an affordable price. Equipped with fast SSD drives and excellent connectivity, CDNsun offers a wide range of advanced features such as Country Access Policy, Hotlink Protection, IP Access Policy, Password Protection, URL Signing, Parallel Downloads, Failover, HTTP Pseudo Streaming and Secure Token.
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The leading CDN service provider ensures that content delivery will not interfere with solving essential tasks. Offload OTT traffic to NGENIX CDN by geography or popularity is the product of their versatile rule engine. The NGENIX cloud platform spans all major telecommunication centres in Russia and the CIS and delivers the unprecedented coverage of the Russian-speaking internet audience. The company provides numerous years of experience, 450+ ISPs interconnected 23 CDN PoPs, 400% acceleration, 500+ G/s, <50 ms average response time in Russia and CIS.

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PEER5 offers multiple CDN services on the same platform. It is also rated as the fastest CDN services to date. PEER5 is believed to provide a combined service of 12 CDNs under a single service pack. The company has also evolved as the best services that can be optimized for customer video services on a single API. As far as the delivery part is concerned, users have rated PEER5 as the fastest delivery service that manages to maintain its high quality. The services are being offered at the same speed, even in regions that usually have coverage area issues.
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CDN77.com offers a wide selection of features to help startups get the most out of their content delivery network. They provide a range of control and security options, network acceleration for servers, automatic failover, real-time analytics, customizable rules, and support for IPv6 and HTTP/2. They can also provide API management, web server configuration, and 24/7/365 support. As a content delivery network, CDN77.com provides secure, easy-to-use, and reliable solutions to startups as they grow.
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Vimmi offers user and content management networks. Some salient features offered by Vimmi may include UGC, DVR, ad creations and insertions, VP, and much more. For global audiences, it guarantees high-quality video content delivery. The users get to enjoy seamless video experience that can practically be enjoyed on multiple screens with advanced HTML5 features. The services offered are secured to ensure uninterrupted viewing of the video contents.
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If we are speaking of the fastest CDN services in the world, then it certainly is Universal CDN. The services are offered on a global platform across multiple countries and continents. The best part is that they guarantee SSD servers (100%) within each selected location. So the services are more functional in locations that are considered to be highly demanding. The facilities offer multiple features that may include CMS integration and instant activation of functions. Apart from this, line analytics is also a feature that can be used by users.
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With a vast 34 datacentre footprint across the globe, Medianova is successfully devising content at an unbelievable speed. Medianova offers one of the most trusted content delivery networks to handle billions of images, audios, videos and live streaming as well. It is the latest technology which puts Medianova on the top. The services like the patent-pending Dockerized CDN Platform, HTTP/2, BBR, Brotli, Image Optimization offers a stunning digital experience. The content delivery network is easily comprehensible with round-the-clock support.
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Warpcache is one of the Content Delivery Network service providers, which helps in delivering the content to the users. Warpcache uses multiple CDNs like EdgeCast, Akamai, Highwinds, MaxCDN, Comcast, ChinaCache, G-Core, Quantil and Medianova, etc. for content delivery. The USP is the use of Real User Measurements (RUM) data along with DNS-based load balancing, which is used to search and select the best CDN. Warpcache combines the strength of numerous CDN service providers into one and simplifies the process of content distribution.

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Transparent CDN is a Web Content Delivery Network offering first-class solutions in 3 areas for Internet access- speed, performance and security. The company provides high-level technological solutions, geographically decentralized infrastructure and intelligent technology to meet customer web needs across Europe, North-America and South-East-Asia. Be it web pages loading, content delivery or data protection, Transparent CDN offers an exceptional range of services that help written and audio/video content to be distributed in a quick, safe and economical way.
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Delivery of content is quite necessary for the current age as the consumption has increased quite a bit, and CDN.NET has made a platform dedicated to it. The platform provides a content delivery network for HLS Streaming. The Company have had the experience of the delivery for a while, and they are confident about low latency and fast pace of work. They believe in providing tailor-made solutions as every Company is invariably different from each other.
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CacheFly is one of the most trusted names when it comes to Content Delivery Network technology. It is the only network that is assembled to deliver even heavy media content with high speed. The Fly, which is one of the latest features, is based on v8. Fast network and uninterrupted loading are what the company offers with its services like TCP Anycast, CacheNetworks, Podcasting, and more. It is one of the established brands in file distribution that ensures maintainance of quality.

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If you are looking around for unlimited hosting and CDN, then Swarmify SmartVideo is the right option available.  There are numerous features like effortless streaming, cost-effective solutions, and storage facility that are offered by SmartVideo. The company believes in offering users with cost-effective solutions in the form of high-speed hosting and CDN for video content. The playback feature lacks a buffer factor, and videos play instantly the moment you click them.
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Consumer’s websites can be scaled and accelerated and intuitively with the assistance of CDINIFY, which offers secure, fast and reliable content delivery. The content of the consumers can also be safeguarded with custom SSL. CDNIFY’s CDN Startups give full access to command over the files. They also render POPs and additional technical support. They can counter a massive influx of traffic at once, shrinking load and delivering faster connectivity.
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The unique selling point of Filestack in the CDN startup market is their ability to provide secure and efficient distributed object storage with a highly scalable, cloud-based content delivery system. This makes it easy for businesses to store and deliver their content to users in the most secure, cost-effective, and timely manner. Filestack also offers a number of specialized features including built-in virus scanning, optimized file delivery, and integrated upload accelerators.
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