Verizon Digital Media Services

Company

Verizon Digital Media Services is a division of Verizon. Founded in 2011, VDMS acquired EdgeCast CDN in 2013 and startup upLynk for their streaming video technology. VDMS has a focus on streaming video and a goal to be a leading provider of OTT services.
Verizon Digital Media Services website

Products

Verizon Digital Media Services provides website and ecommerce acceleration services as well as streaming services. Their focus is on video delivery and OTT.

View the table below for more insight into Verizon Digital Media Services products.
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Product
Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ...	ACCELERATE
Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB)	DELIVER
Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB)	DELIVER
Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing?	Live Streaming
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video
Image OptimizationAutomatic image compression/optimization
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain	ROUTE
WAFWeb Application Firewall	DEFEND
Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this.	DEFEND
Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs

Network

Verizon Digital Media Services has POPs on 5 continents including in 5 countries in South America and 2 in mainland China. More POPs are planned including in Johannesburg, Mexico and Fujairah.
Verizon Digital Media Services network map

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Region	POPs	Locations
North America	12	Atlanta - Boston - Chicago - Dallas - Denver - Los Angeles - Miami - New York City - Philadelphia - San Jose - Seattle - Washington D.C.
Latin America	7	Buenos Aires Quito Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo Barranquilla - Medellin Lima
Europe	11	Vienna Frankfurt Copenhagen Madrid Helsinki Paris London Milan Amsterdam Warsaw Stockholm
Russia & CIS	0
Asia, excl China	12	Hong Kong Batam - Jakarta Bangalore - Chennai - Mumbai - New Delhi Osaka - Tokyo Seoul Singapore Taipei
China	2	Beijing - Shanghai
Oceania	3	Melbourne - Sydney Auckland
Middle-East	1	Muscat
Africa	0

Pricing

Verizon Digital Media Services typically requires annual contracts with pricing depending on traffic volume and what features/services you need. Get in touch to learn more about their services and prices.
Verizon Digital Media Services contact form

Pricing & contract duration
Minimum contract term	12 months
Minimum monthly costs	Unknown
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests	Unknown
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred	Unknown
NA/EU traffic (low volume)	Unknown
APAC traffic (low volume)	Unknown
LATAM traffic (low volume)	Unknown

Features

The Verizon Digital Media Services CDN (aka EdgeCast) has many features and provides full and granular control over the CDN (caching) behaviour if you purchase the Basic or Advanced Rules Engine.

View the tables below for more insight into the features Verizon Digital Media Services supports.
Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.

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= Sort of/partially
= No
= Extra costs
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Web acceleration
Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing.	Can't sign up and get started. Must talk to sales.
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs?	60 - 90 minutes
Apex/root domain OK No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com	Anycasted network (regional)
HTTP/2	Q2 2017
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6?
Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery	Resend, or compress on edge Always fetch compressed from origin
Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too?	HTTP and HTTPS
Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value?	Configure specific other Host header CDN can also forward client request Host header to origin
Origin shieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP	Single POP shield or multiple. Full control Origin Shield is part of Basic Rules Engine
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin
Cache control - CDN caching	By default, CDN honors origin headers Full and granular control is possible with Rules Engine ($)
Cache control - client caching	By default, CDN honors origin headers Full and granular control is possible with Rules Engine ($)
Serve stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble	Serve stale is part of Advanced Rules Engine
Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN	No longer than 1 min, often much faster
Purge - capabilities	Purge all, purge by directory, by file extension
Analytics	Many metrics in the UI Custom reports ($) available
Log files	Takes up to 24h to get all log entries
API	Purge, configuration (basics only), analytics No API yet for Rules Engine

HTTPS & Content Protection
CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net
Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate	Non-SNI. Pricing is custom. Wildcard possible
Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN	Pricing is custom
Token authentication	Requires Basic or Advanced Rules Engine
Geo blocking	Requires Basic or Advanced Rules Engine
Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content	Requires Basic or Advanced Rules Engine
Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content
IP white/blacklisting	Requires Basic or Advanced Rules Engine

Support

Verizon Digital Media Services provides support via email and phone to all customers.

Customer support
Documentation	Good documentation but not public
Humans	All customers get 24/7 email and phone support.

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