Comparison of the Telefónica and Internap CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Telefónica and Internap 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	Telefónica	Internap
POPs in North-America	4	Not Available
POPs in Europe	15Telefónica has 5 POPs in Spain, 1 in France, 3 in the UK, 5 in Germany and 1 in Czech Republic.	Not Available
POPs in Asia (not China)	0	Not Available
POPs in China	0	Not Available
POPs in Australia	0	Not Available
POPs in South-America	153 in Brazil, 4 in Argentina, 5 in Chile and 3 in Peru.	Not Available
POPs in Middle-East	0	Not Available
POPs in Africa	0	Not Available

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	Telefónica	Internap
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		Yes, you pay for storage
Resellers		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	Telefónica	Internap
Origin-Pull	The origin can be an IP address or a host name.
Push (upload to CDN servers)		Files can be uploaded to the CDN POPs via FTP, the control panel and rsync.
Purge	No limit to the number of purge requests and purging happens immediately. Also, the Telefónica CDN 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.	Both MediaConsole (the Internap online control panel) and the API support single file, multiple file (folder), and wildcard purge. The Cache Purge Manager tool built into MediaConsole allows ad hoc or scheduled purges.
Purge All		Can be done via the online control panel and API.
Gzip	Only if origin server does Gzip	Only if origin server does GzipGzip compression reduces the file size (bytes) of text-based files like HTML, CSS and JavaScript by approximately 70%. It's a well-known web performance best practice to turn on Gzip on the server.
Persistent connections
Honors all origin server headers
Can override origin server headers		Internap offers lots of possibilities for this.
Set caching headers for pushed files
Custom CNAMEs
HTTPS	Customers can upload their own certificate.	Internap offers a free, shared wildcard certificate (no CNAME) and the option to upload your certificate, have a custom CNAME at $200/month.
Control Panel & statistics
Access Logs	Can be downloaded via SFTP, not via SCP or rsync and not via the API.
API	SOAP and REST. XML output. HTTPS endpoint.
Support	247 phone and email support. Toll free local number in countries where Telefónica has offices.	Internap operates dual Network Operating Centers for geographic diversity, and staff the NOC with front line engineering resources who have the skills and tools to resolve network issues on the first call. The NOC is available 24/7/365 by phone, email, and chat. Internap received a Stevie® Award for 'Best Customer Service Department' of the Year at the 2011 American Business Awards.

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