Yahoo Finance StackPath Launches Direct Connect
Dedicated private network connections accelerate and protect traffic to and from the edge.
DALLAS, Jan. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StackPath, a leading edge-cloud platform, today announced the availability of StackPath Direct Connect for StackPath content delivery network (CDN), providing dedicated network connections from customers’ private networks to the StackPath edge platform. Traffic from customers’ on-premises origin servers can travel to and from the StackPath CDN without using the public internet, enabling customers to:
bypass bottlenecks and congestion
minimize latency and packet loss or corruption
decrease exposure to malicious activity and threats
reduce total transit provider costs
“StackPath Direct Connect lets our customers address what might be the greatest obstacle to getting the most out of the edge,” said Will Charnock, StackPath Chief Technology Officer. “With our exceptional transit and peering connections, upwards of 70% of the traffic we deliver is handed off directly to the last mile carrier. That means the biggest bottlenecks in our customers’ operations are usually in the first mile—getting data to the edge. Direct Connect replaces those highway bottlenecks with a high-speed, high-security express lane.”
StackPath Direct Connect provides a private fiber connection into the StackPath platform in any of the company’s more than 50 global edge locations. It is ideal for StackPath customers running workloads that involve large volumes of traffic or high-frequency origin calls, common to the industry’s most rapidly growing cloud applications such as video streaming/delivery and internet-connected gaming.
“Up to now, select StackPath CDN customers have requested and used private network connections. But as edge computing grows—and edge applications like CDN evolve—sophisticated delivery use cases and modern applications need greater security, speed, and cost effectiveness at all points between workloads and end users,” said Ashok Ganesan, StackPath Chief Product Officer. “We’re excited to make Direct Connect available to any StackPath CDN customer and have plans to provide Direct Connect access to all StackPath products soon.”
For more information about StackPath Direct Connect, customers can contact their StackPath sales representative or email sales@stackpath.com.
About StackPath
StackPath is an edge cloud platform, providing cloud services that are physically closer to end users than core cloud providers’ services. StackPath edge compute—including Virtual Machines and Containers—and edge applications—including CDN and WAF—are strategically located in the world’s most densely populated areas, and united by a secure private network fabric and a single management system. Customers ranging from Fortune 50 enterprises to one-person startups trust StackPath to give their latency-sensitive workloads and applications the speed, security and efficiency they require.
Contact:
Susie Scott
StackPath
VP, Corporate Communications
susan.mcdonald@stackpath.com
503-806-3841
