Company

Company	Akamai	CDNvideo
Short profile	Akamai is one of the oldest CDNs and generally considered to be the largest global CDN. They have 'servers everywhere' and a wide range of products and services. The company is actively involved in Let's Encrypt and is pushing HTTP/2 adoption.	CDNvideo was founded in April 2010 and soon after became - and still is - one of the bigger CDN providers in Russia and CIS. CDNvideo is proud of their 24/7 technical support for all our customers.

Products

Product	Akamai	CDNvideo
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?
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video
Image OptimizationAutomatic image compression/optimization
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain
WAFWeb Application Firewall
Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this.
Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs

Network

Region	Akamai	CDNvideo
North America	Unknown	3
Latin America	Unknown	0
Europe	Unknown	2
Russia & CIS	Unknown	26
Asia, excl China	Unknown	1
China	Unknown	0
Oceania	Unknown	0
Middle-East	Unknown	2
Africa	Unknown	0

Pricing

Pricing & contract duration	Akamai	CDNvideo
Minimum contract term	12 months	1 month
Minimum monthly costs	Unknown	$50
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests	Unknown	None
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred	Unknown	None
NA/EU traffic (low volume)	Unknown	$0.05
APAC traffic (low volume)	Unknown	$0.05
LATAM traffic (low volume)	Unknown	$0.05

Features

Web acceleration	Akamai	CDNvideo
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?		30 minutes
Apex/root domain OK No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com	If you also use their Fast DNS for your domain	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	Resend from origin
Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too?	HTTP and HTTPS	HTTP and HTTPS. IP address as origin is possible
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
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin		Upload via web interface. Storage costs apply
Cache control - CDN caching		Origin sent headers are honored. Can't set overrides
Cache control - client caching		Origin sent headers are honored. Can't set overrides
Serve stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble
Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN		Purging takes a few minutes
Purge - capabilities		Purge all but not purge by directory or tag or header
Analytics		Max 1 hour delay
Log files		Download from the UI Logs are ~ 30 minutes delayed
API		Purge and some analytics, not configuration

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

Support

Customer support	Akamai	CDNvideo
Documentation	Yes, but not public	Yes, but not public
Humans		All customers get 24/7 email, Skype and phone support