IP Connect

Secure banking, online gaming, social media — you can’t cache your dynamic content, but you can still send these packets flying at the speed of light. With IP Connect, a LimelightDELIVER option or standalone service, you can serve regular Internet traffic on the same highly scalable architecture that sits at the core of our CDN services.

Whether seeding your cache with Cache Fill, accelerating HTML delivery, or simply enhancing your overall deliver platform, your services gains the performance benefits of our private fiber-optic network when you host your servers in one of the same strategically located data centers. We’ll connect them to your users via full-route broadcasting to tier-one commercial providers and more than 900 access networks.

Direct access to user networks

IP Connect boasts direct interconnections with more than 900 access networks — most of the world’s largest networks. The result? More than 85% of content delivered via IP Connect returns directly to the access network from which it was requested, never through an intermediary network.

To further performance, reliability, and scalability, IP Connect maintains the fastest available connections — usually 10-Gigabit Ethernet — into these access networks. Simply put, IP Connect transmits your web pages more quickly, makes online games more responsive, decreases auction delays, and boosts chat time.

Cache Fill option

You may need IP Connect for Cache Fill connectivity rather than Full Route service. This means you connect to us at one of our Delivery Centers to populate your content across the Limelight Networks CDN. Whether you choose Limelight CDN storage or prefer to store source content on your own servers, the IP Connect Cache Fill service ingests your data across a 1- or 10-Gigabit Ethernet port for distribution to our Delivery Center servers.

Not just for CDN customers

You don’t have to be a LimelightDELIVER customer to gain access to IP Connect functionality. Send and receive email, run an online store, deploy live help — you name it(1) — it will get to your users more quickly when you choose IP Connect on the Limelight Networks infrastructure. And when your business grows to require full CDN services, you’ll already be connected to a world-class content delivery platform.

Single source advantage

Choose IP Connect to reduce IT complexity and increase redundancy. When you turn to one network provider for end user service of both regular and cached content, your data is always on our network, so there’s never a network miss. In addition, you can leverage your single relationship with Limelight Networks to reduce your IT costs. And should there be a network issue, our expert support staff stands by, ready to respond rapidly — so troubleshooting is one convenient phone call away.

How it works

You’ll need to run and maintain your own servers at one of the data centers below.(2) Then Limelight Networks or a third party connects your hardware with ours via 1- or 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports.(3) IP Connect lets you use the Border Gateway Protocol with your AS number or ours. Limelight Networks can also provide IP addresses on an as-needed basis. We advise using multi-homing for fault tolerance and can make further recommendations in complex situations with IP Connect Jump Start Services. IP Connect services are available 100% of the time, and Limelight Networks will give you seven days notice of any maintenance that will impact service.

Availability

Take advantage of IP Connect services at data centers in or near the following cities:
USA: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix area, San Francisco Bay area, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
Canada: Toronto, Vancouver
Europe: Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, and Stockholm

Contact a Limelight Networks representative for location details.

Notes

1. Except for spam. Seriously.
2. Speak with a Limelight Networks representative if you need managed servers.
3. If you need a local loop to connect to a Limelight Networks data center from a separate building, you must engage a third-party vendor.

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