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There is something which Akamai does and CloudFlare doesn't want to (at the moment): pay big sums to those big ISPs which refuse to peer and want to sell very e
by Nyr 11y ago
There is something which Akamai does and CloudFlare doesn't want to (at the moment): pay big sums to those big ISPs which refuse to peer and want to sell very expensive direct connections.
- manigandham 11y agoWhat does this mean for the company/application using CloudFlare or Akamai? Both services seem to be highly available and very fast from around the world. What does Akamai do here that's better?
- Nyr 11y agoAkamai has direct connections to those "difficult" ISPs, CloudFlare uses transit to reach them. To provide an example: transit to DTAG via GTT (CloudFlare) is always saturated at peak hours. So Akamai has a big advantage (direct connection) if you want to reach Deutsche Telekom customers.