Why Limelight

Fast, Reliable and Secure Private Global Network

Limelight has one of the world’s largest private global networks, enabling you to bypass internet congestion and avoid many security potholes. Optimized for the highest performance, our infrastructure includes:

■ 80+ Tbps egress capacity and 100GbE private fiber backbone connected to 1,000+ ISP and last-mile networks
■ ~123 Points of Presence around the world, unlike other cloud solutions that restrict your presence to a handful of datacenters
■ Dense architecture with industry-leading 98% cache-hit efficiency
■ Industry’s highest performing origin storage solution
■ Global edge processing capabilities that enable real-time applications and workflows

Software Stack Optimized For Performance

Limelight has developed and optimized its own software stack to deliver industry-leading performance over any connection type. Limelight also offers a fully-integrated suite of software services. Your developers can integrate Limelight services into your workflows, and build innovation and efficiency with developer tools and edge compute. Your operations team can use secure web portals for hands-on control. Capabilities include:

■ Integrated video packaging, delivery, and Online Video Platform
■ Sub-second real-time live video streaming
■ Unique high-speed purge with integrated reporting and the ability to remove >1 billion objects globally in less than a second
■ Global WAF and DDoS protection on a 100% TLS/SSL-enabled network for secure delivery without sacrificing performance
■ Developer tools to manage and monitor Limelight services
■ Edge compute including serverless, bare metal and virtual machine offerings

Free Access to World Class Service

If you encounter a problem, you should be able to talk to a human - and a competent one at that! At Limelight, every person is committed to delivering a better experience for you and your customers, which is just one reason our customer satisfaction scores continue to reach new highs year after year. Limelight services include:

■ Free, unrestricted access to live technical support
■ A 24/7/365 global Network Operations Center
■ An award-winning Professional Services team with extensive expertise solving complex integration challenges
■ Responsive service and support teams with proven experience helping customers successfully deliver some of the internet’s largest events

"Limelight is following a welcome playbook in targeting programmability at the edge to the developer community. The developers will benefit from an API-based programming environment with open source language support. The ability to scale on a global basis is certainly advantageous."

Ghassan Abdo, Research VP, WW Telecom , Virtualization & CDN and Dave McCarthy, Research Director, Edge Strategies, IDC

"The complexity of managing an OTT service is pretty high. Limelight’s CDN infrastructure simplifies our workflows and allows us to focus on providing more content for our customers and driving more revenue for our business."

Vice President, Product & Digital Operations, Cinedigm

"The team at Limelight has genuine interest in helping Napster enhance its service, and is willing to work with us on innovative solutions. We’ve had a long and positive relationship with Limelight. They are easy to work with and very responsive."

Senior Director, Vendor Relationship Management, Napster

"Limelight is a trusted brand and has the best CDN for handling video in its true sense with a range of transcoding and CDN capabilities to meet our complex needs."