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