EdgeCast offers a superior, cost-effective global content delivery service that gives our customers a competitive advantage in the delivery of digital media. Our world-class content delivery platform provides customers the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling their own content delivery network while liberating them from bandwidth contracts, capital investments and operational hassles.

Our facilities leverage bandwidth from the top international IP transit carriers and reach the greatest population of Internet end users in every global market. Our own proprietary global load-balancing technology connects each location to your end users around the world.

At the same time, our bandwidth buying power works to your benefit, giving you access to our volume discounts. EdgeCast offers you cutting-edge storage and edge caching infrastructure across which your applications and content have guaranteed performance and delivery. And best of all, it gives you instant scale with no capital costs. You’ll don’t need to make a build or buy decision; just choose your starting point and move up or down our service spectrum as your stage of growth requires.

Global Footprint
Through extensive research and development, the EdgeCast team has pinpointed strategic global locations from which to store and serve our clients' content. EdgeCast maintains content caching points of presence (POPs) in San Jose, Los Angeles, Ashburn VA, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Sydney. All POPs are located in tier one data centers strategically located near primary Internet Exchange Points. This places EdgeCast servers at the center of global network peering and traffic exchange, and puts your end users just milliseconds away from your content.

EdgeDirector Global Load-Balancing Platform
Our EdgeDirector is a patent-pending routing protocol and global load balancing technology for serving content requests from the location closest to the end user. Traditional content delivery networks use DNS routing methods that require multiple levels of DNS triangulation before the content can be served. EdgeCast's EdgeDirector combines the robustness and instant response of one of the fastest DNS infrastructures in the world with proprietary routing protocols to ensure that client content is immediately delivered to the user directly from the EdgeCast POP fastest for them, regardless of the user's global location.

Flash Media Server 3 (FMS3)
Adobe’s Flash Media Server is one of the most popular streaming technologies in use today and the EdgeCast Networks CDN supports their latest version - FMS3, which includes some of the following features:

1. Higher performance and improved live streaming support: FMS3 supports 200% more concurrent streams than the previous version, FMS2.

2. High Definition (HD): Streaming of industry standard H.264 and HE-ACC compressed video and audio allows for the smooth streaming of HD quality video.

3. H.264 seek: Flash Media Server 3 also supports enhanced seeking for H.264 content, which means you can seek to any point within an HD video and start streaming quickly.

4. Security features: Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) enhancements deliver higher performance encryption. SWF verification protects files from being reused, modified, or hosted in alternate locations. FMS 3 also supports streaming of encrypted content to Adobe Media Player.

5. Server-side republish: This feature lets developers push either a live stream to another Flash Media Server or content delivery network. A developer can inject cue-point messages into a live stream before it gets distributed, making it easier to develop applications that react to the video events.

Near Real-time Reporting and Analytics
EdgeCast’s reporting is calculated every hour, ensuring our customers have access to timely performance data. Our tools provide complete reporting flexibility, with access to new reports how and when you need them. Reporting and analytics should enable you to lower costs, analyze trends, predict usage patterns, and help you improve the performance of your content delivery. We believe that since it is your content and your bandwidth, you should have every monitoring, tracking and analysis tool possible to monitor the services we provide.

Bandwidth Throttling
It’s not enough to just provide an excellent content delivery service; we must also be dedicated to developing new technology that improves your bottom line. Another example of our leadership in this regard is our bandwidth throttling technology. In this age of short attention spans, quick site exits, and channel surfing, you don’t want to pay for the full download of a five minute video if the user only watches the first five seconds. Our technology is able to ensure a quality end user experience while mitigating the cost of abandoned downloads and streams.

Progressive Download: Balancing Quality With Flexibility
Whether it’s improving performance or lowering costs, our dedication to improving your content delivery model is clear: our progressive download technology allows users random access to videos they are downloading (fast forwarding and rewinding throughout the file) before the files are fully downloaded without the licensing costs and technological burden associated with streaming.

Content Security
EdgeCast’s token based authentication makes it simple and seamless to provide a high level of security that is layered on top of your mission-critical content. We provide the necessary security tools to enable you to restrict access to content by any combination of geo-location for country blocking, by URL time to live, and by individual IP address - ideal for country-specific content, prevention of hot-linking to content, or ecommerce download/viewing of content for specific users.

Storage
EdgeCast offers its CDN customers high capacity, high-availability storage for all of their content. Our storage infrastructure is a high-performance storage platform, accessible via FTP, RSYNC, and Web Interface, and is designed to be redundant and scalable. Additionally, we can deploy custom storage solutions at all of our POPs throughout the globe, so that customers can select the ideal geographic location for their storage, and make it available to all the regional EdgeCast caching and streaming servers.

Flexible Origin Server Options
EdgeCast provides clients with the flexibility to physically store content with EdgeCast, or store content locally on their own hardware. If clients choose to store their content with us, they can easily upload their content directly to our storage POPs, where the content is picked up and brought to the edge by the caching servers. Optionally, clients can maintain their content on their own origin server, and the EdgeCast caching servers will access that client storage location, cache the content, and serve it directly to end users from the EdgeCast POPs around the globe.

Focus on Digital Media
EdgeCast specializes in content delivery services for digital media. Many legacy content delivery networks are not designed to support the delivery of extremely large streaming and downloadable media files; rather, they were tailored to support much smaller static files such as images, HTML, and banner ads. While the EdgeCast network excels in handling these smaller files, we have specifically optimized our network for streaming Adobe Flash and Windows Media and for large file delivery via progressive download. Our network is highly scalable to support massive and unexpected digital media audiences and flash crowds.