G-Core Labs - CDN Planet

Company

G-Core Labs is a global CDN with a focus on gaming: "We expand the geographical presence of your game and speed up downloads for your players". G-Core Labs is headquartered in Luxembourg and employs 400+ people.
G-Core Labs website

Products

View the table below for more insight into G-Core Labs products.
Hover over/touch the product to view a short description.

= Yes
= Sort of/partially
= No
= Unknown

Product
Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ...
Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB)
Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB)
Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing?	Live Streaming
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video	VoD
Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain	DNS
WAFWeb Application Firewall	WAF
Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this.	DDoS Protection
Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs
Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers

Network

G-Core Labs has 140+ POPs on 6 continents, with a strong presence in the CIS countries. Total network capacity exceeds 110 Tbps and 11,000+ peering partners.
G-Core Labs network map

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Region	POPs	Locations
North America	14	Ashburn - Atlanta - Chicago - Dallas - Denver - Los Angeles - Manassas - McAllen - Miami - New York - San Jose - Seattle - Sunnyvale - Boston^* - Minneapolis^* - Phoenix^* Toronto
Latin America	9	Buenos Aires Fortaleza - Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo - Porto Alegre^* Guayaquil Santiago Bogotá Guatemala City^* Querétaro Panama City^* Lima
Europe	16	Sofia Limassol Prague Frankfurt London Madrid Marseille - Paris Budapest Milan Luxembourg Riga Amsterdam Warsaw Lisbon^* Bucharest Belgrade^* Stockholm
Russia & CIS	35	Yerevan Baku Sukhumi - Tbilisi Almaty - Nur-Sultan - Pavlodar Bishkek Chișinău Angarsk - Barnaul - Chelyabinsk - Kazan - Khabarovsk - Krasnodar - Krasnoyarsk - Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod - Novosibirsk - Orel - Perm - Petrozavodsk - Pskov - Rostov - Samara - St Petersburg - Ufa - Vladivostok - Voronezh - Yekaterinburg - Irkutsk^* - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk^* Dushanbe^* Ashgabat^* Kharkiv - Kiev - Lviv Tashkent Minsk
Asia excl. China	12	Dhaka Hong Kong Jakarta^* Mumbai - Chennai^* - Hyderabad^* - New Delhi^* Osaka - Tokyo Seoul Ulaanbaatar Kathmandu Manila Karachi^* Singapore Bangkok Taipei^* Ho Chi Minh
China	0
Oceania	2	Melbourne - Sydney - Perth^* Auckland^*
Middle-East	10	Dubai Tel Aviv Baghdad - Erbil Amman Kuwait City Muscat Doha Riyahd^* Damascus^* Istanbul Sanaʽa
Africa	3	Luanda Kinshasa^* Yaoundé^* Djibouti^* Cairo^* Accra^* Nairobi^* Tripoli^* Lagos Lomé^* Tunis^* Johannesburg - Cape Town^*

Pricing

G-Core Labs pricing is simple and easy to understand, with no hidden costs and one global rate for all bytes delivered. Signup is completely self-service and there is no need to talk to a sales representative. You can get discounted rates based on a commit in an annual contract. G-Core Labs has a PAYG plan and 3 plans with monthly commits. The info below is for their 1 TB/m at $25 plan.
G-Core Labs pricing

Pricing & contract duration
Minimum contract term	None
Minimum monthly costs	$25
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests	First 1 billion free, more cost $0.0075/million
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred	Yes
NA/EU traffic (low volume)	$0.025 per GB
APAC traffic (low volume)	$0.025 per GB
LATAM traffic (low volume)	$0.025 per GB

Features

G-Core Labs provides API-friendly control of the CDN and easy integration with Terraform.

View the tables below for more insight into the features G-Core Labs supports.
Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.

= Yes
= Sort of/partially
= No
= Extra costs
= Unknown

Web acceleration
Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing.
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs?	~15 minutes
Apex/root domain OK No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com	Custom solution (host your DNS zone ...)
HTTP/2
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6?
Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery	Resend from origin, or compress on edge
Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too?	HTTP and HTTPS
Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value?	Can be different from origin host
Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin
Cache control - CDN caching	Origin or CDN controlled
Cache control - client caching	Origin or CDN controlled
Serve Stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble	Always Online
Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN	A few minutes
Purge - capabilities	Purge all, directory, and by file type/pattern
Analytics	Many metrics, real-time updates
Log files	Real-time streaming of logs to your server (S3 or FTP)
API	Purge, analytics, configuration

HTTPS & Content Protection
CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net
Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate
Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN	Manage self in control panel
Token authentication	Secure Token
Geo blocking	Country Access Policy
Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content	Referer Access Policy
Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content
IP white/blacklisting	IP Access Policy

Support

Responsive technical support, 24/7

Customer support
Documentation	Yes, public
Humans	Phone, chat and email support is free and available 24/7

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