Limelight

Company

Limelight (NASDAQ: LLNW) has been a strong player in the CDN market since 2001. Limelight has a large, high-capacity network with POPs on many continents and offers digital content delivery, live and on-demand video, cloud security and edge computing services.
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Products

Limelight provides content delivery, video delivery, cloud security, IoT and edge cloud services, and origin storage.

View the table below for more insight into Limelight products.
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= Yes
= Sort of/partially
= No
= Extra costs
= Unknown

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

Network

Limelight claims to have 'the world's largest, global private network specializing in low latency video, web and digital content delivery. Limelight's secure Tier 1 CDN offers 33+ Tbps egress capacity and 98+% caching efficiency. Limelight offers China delivery leveraring in-country partnerships.
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Region	POPs	Locations
North America	16	Atlanta - Burbank - Chicago - Dallas - Los Angeles - Miami - Minneapolis - New York - Phoenix - San Jose - Seattle - Washington DC Halifax - Montreal - Toronto - Vancouver
Latin America	6	Buenos Aires São Paulo Santiago Bogota - Medellin Mexico City
Europe	12	Vienna Zurich Milan - Palermo Dusseldorf - Frankfurt Madrid Marseille - Paris London Amsterdam Stockholm
Russia & CIS	0
Asia, excl China	10	Hong Kong Osaka - Tokyo Chennai - Delhi - Mumbai Seoul Kuala Lumpur Manila Singapore Bangkok
China	0
Oceania	1	Sydney
Middle-East	4	Dubai Tel Aviv Baghdad Kuwait City Doha
Africa	1	Johannesburg

Pricing

Limelight 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.
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Pricing & contract duration
Minimum contract term	12 months
Minimum monthly costs	Varies by product and service
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests	None
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred	Yes
NA/EU traffic (low volume)	Confidential, market competitive
APAC traffic (low volume)	Confidential, market competitive
LATAM traffic (low volume)	Confidential, market competitive

Features

View the tables below for more insight into the features Limelight supports.
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= 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?	A few minutes
Apex/root domain OK No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com	Non-Anycasted network
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. Match protocol
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	Self-service control
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin	Origin Storage. Upload via UI or API
Cache control - CDN caching
Cache control - client caching
Serve stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble
Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN	Instant
Purge - capabilities	Purge by path, all, pattern, wildcard.
Analytics
Log files	Download logs via FTP, SFTP, rsync and scp Delay is ~10 minutes
API	Purge, analytics, configuration, OVP, origin storage

HTTPS & Content Protection
CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net	Free. SNI
Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate
Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN
Token authentication	MediaVault. Highly customizable
Geo blocking	IP access control by Geo and IP
Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content	MediaVault. Highly customizable
Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content	MediaVault. Highly customizable
IP white/blacklisting	MediaVault. Highly customizable

Support

Customer support
Documentation	Yes, but not public
Humans	All customers get 24/7 email and phone support. Customers who purchase Advanced Services have access to a designated Limelight Advanced Services team member.

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