We performed a comparison between Akamai and Verizon EdgeCast based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, Microsoft, Akamai and others in CDN."This solution can be used for web , video and media caching and streaming."
"The most valuable feature in managing web traffic has been the ability to handle vertical scaling effectively."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it has been quite helpful in our company, especially when it comes to applications needing updates frequently."
"The most valuable feature of Akamai is its ease of use and simple integration. Additionally, the solution has new aspects added to it regularly."
"The worldwide reach of the Akamai CDN is one of the key values of this CDN and the agreements worldwide that they keep running."
"As of now, the best thing about Akamai is WAF, and though CDN is a good feature, it comes in second place when compared to WAF. I am very impressed with the WAF offered by Akamai."
"Akamai provides low-latency throughput."
"Akamai is leveraged by many top-level businesses, ensuring reliability and support in case of outages or issues."
"It's super easy to use and integrate with."
"The Rules Engine V4 is the most valuable feature."
"The product is easy to use and easy to implement."
"Local connectivity would be great linked to our own telecom/Cablevision CDN."
"The product's scalability can be improved since certain shortcomings regarding the security part of the solution currently exist."
"Akamai should improve its integrations."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"The fact that it is an expensive product is its only shortcoming."
"The solution could offer more integrations."
"I'd like to see more Web 3.0 and IoT solutions."
"It would be better if we could be notified about specific attacks."
"In the next release, I would like to see more global endpoints for their CDN and a lower price."
"The web interface of the Verizon Edgecast portal is very old. It's not user-friendly, slow, and it is missing some valuable features like the ability to make bulk changes."
"We could not create more than 15 custom rules."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Verizon EdgeCast is ranked 12th in CDN with 3 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Verizon EdgeCast is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Akamai writes "An easy to setup product offering multiple useful functionalities under a single package". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Verizon EdgeCast writes "The product is easy to use and easy to implement, but we have to raise new feature requests frequently because the product is new". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Amazon CloudFront and Windows Azure CDN, whereas Verizon EdgeCast is most compared with Edgio Global CDN, Windows Azure CDN, Cloudflare, Azure Front Door and Amazon CloudFront.
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