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Re:Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Inve... by manigandham on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @02:43PM (#10260698)
CloudFlare seems to be rapidly expanding both datacenters and peering partnerships. Isnt the effective capability the same between both companies?

Is there something that Akamai can do that CloudFlare cant?

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Re:Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Inve... by Nyr on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @03:05PM (#10260858)
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.
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Re:Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Inve... by manigandham on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @03:51PM (#10261191)
What 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?

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Re:Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Inve... by Nyr on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @03:42PM (#10267598)
Akamai 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.

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