Comparison of the Voxel and Telefónica CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Voxel and Telefónica 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	Voxel	Telefónica
POPs in North-America	16New York (8x), New Jersey (2x), Ashburn, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Jose and Palo Alto	4
POPs in Europe	3London, Amsterdam (2x)	15Telefónica has 5 POPs in Spain, 1 in France, 3 in the UK, 5 in Germany and 1 in Czech Republic.
POPs in Asia (not China)	2Hong Kong and Singapore	0
POPs in China	0	0
POPs in Australia	0	0
POPs in South-America	0	153 in Brazil, 4 in Argentina, 5 in Chile and 3 in Peru.
POPs in Middle-East	0	0
POPs in Africa	0	0

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	Voxel	Telefónica
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	$0.10 per GB	Not Available
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	$0.05 per GB, at 500 TB per month	Not Available
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	No extra charge	Not Available
Storage	$0.20 per GB per monthIt's actually $0.00027/GB per hour or $0.20/GB per month.

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	Voxel	Telefónica
Origin-Pull		The origin can be an IP address or a host name.
Push (upload to CDN servers)
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.
Purge All
Gzip	Only if origin server does Gzip	Only if origin server does Gzip
Persistent connections
Honors all origin server headers
Can override origin server headers	It is possible to very specifically alter headers.
Set caching headers for pushed files
Custom CNAMEs	CNAME is not possible for secure webpages (SSL)
HTTPS	Voxel charges $99 per month extra for handling traffic over SSL. A custom CNAME is not possible for secure pages.	Customers can upload their own certificate.
Control Panel & statistics
Access Logs	Rsynch for the log files is supported.	Can be downloaded via SFTP, not via SCP or rsync and not via the API.
API	Purge objects from VoxCAST's cache. Adjust the configuration of your VoxCAST CDN to change parameters like cache expiration time; origin settings; log formats; etc.	SOAP and REST. XML output. HTTPS endpoint.
Support	Voxel believes in providing exceptional "Zero Bureaucracy" support to all customers and they handle support 24/7/365 from their New York and Singapore offices, phone and email. Response time depends on the type of issue and is generally within the hour.	247 phone and email support. Toll free local number in countries where Telefónica has offices.

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