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0 pointsmanigandham10y ago0 comments

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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Nyr10y ago· 2 in thread

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.

manigandhamOP10y ago

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?

Nyr10y ago

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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