Comparison of the ChinaCache and Level3 CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare ChinaCache and Level3 for POP locations, pricing and features & support. We hope this helps you better understand the similarities and differences between these Content Delivery Networks.

POP locations	ChinaCache	Level3
POPs in North-America	8New York, Washington, Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle	27Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Herndon, Houston, Miami, McLean, Minneapolis, New York, Newark, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Raleigh, San Francisco, San Jose, Saint Louis, Seattle, Sunnyvale, Tampa, Tustin, Washington, D.C., Montreal, Toronto
POPs in Europe	3London, Frankfurt, Paris	21Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Birmingham (UK), Brussels, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Dublin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Helsinki, Leeds (UK), London, Madrid, Marseille (France), Milan, Paris, Sofia (Bulgaria), Stockholm, Vienna
POPs in Asia (not China)	7Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, HongKong	4Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo.
POPs in China	127The number of locations is too high to list them all, but cities include Shanghai, Beijing and GuangZhou.	4Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, ZhanJiang
POPs in Australia	0	1Sydney.
POPs in South-America	0	5Medellin (Colombia), Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile)
POPs in Middle-East	1Qatar	2Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Doha (Qatar).
POPs in Africa	0	3Cape Town and Johannesburg (South Africa), Djibouti (Djibouti)

A POP is a Point Of Presence, an access point to the Internet. It is a physical, strategically placed location that houses multiple CDN servers.

Pricing	ChinaCache	Level3
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	Not Available	Not Available
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	Not Available	Not Available
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	Not Available	Not Available
Storage		Not available
Resellers	Turbobytes	Turbobytes

Note: custom price plans are very common in the CDN market, especially for large volume customers. We recommend you always talk to the CDN provider about your needs and requirements and work with them to get a best-fit deal.

Features & Support	ChinaCache	Level3
Origin-Pull	ChinaCache supports 'soft TTL' or 'soft invalidation'. This means that the customer can configure after how long the CDN needs to check on the origin if a file is still valid.
Push (upload to CDN servers)
Purge	Purge time is 3 to 5 minutes. No more than 100 purge requests at one time.
Purge All
Gzip	Resend from origin, or compress on edgeGZIP is not on by default, so make sure you don't forget to turn it on.	Resend from origin, or compress on edge
Persistent connections
Honors all origin server headers
Can override origin server headers
Set caching headers for pushed files
Custom CNAMEs
HTTPS	Custom CNAME is possible + upload your own certificate.
Control Panel & statistics	Insight in activity per geographical region/country (not per URL) and informationis available in real-time. You get detailed analytics for mainland China.
Access Logs	Download via HTTP or have ChinaCache upload the log files to your server via FTP. No extra charge.
API	SOAP with JSON response. HTTPS end point. You can do purging, get billing info, get usage info. No limit on the number of API calls per month.
Support	247 phone and email support for all customers. In China you can call a local toll free number.

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