StackPath Edge Compute

StackPath Edge Compute is a solution that enables businesses to build their own edge with compute capabilities closer to their end-users. According to the vendor, this product is designed for a wide range of enterprises, including IT professionals, developers, network administrators, e-commerce companies, and content providers. With a variety of features and functionalities, StackPath Edge Compute aims to enhance network performance, security, and user experience.

Key Features

Private VPN: According to the vendor, businesses can seamlessly integrate private VPN functionality into their applications by running private VPN nodes as virtual machines (VMs) in edge locations worldwide. This feature provides secure and private access to applications and resources, with the added benefit of integrating authentication management services for enhanced privacy and content protection.

Private Cloud Firewall: The vendor claims that users can create a customized global firewall functionality through scripting at the edge. This feature intercepts, analyzes, and directs all traffic to ensure security and compliance, offering granular control over inbound and outbound traffic.

Private CDN: With this feature, businesses can combine VMs or containers running caching, secure transit, firewalls, and more to create a private delivery network. According to the vendor, this allows enterprises or consumer services to have their own content delivery network, resulting in improved content delivery speed and enhanced user experience.

Accelerate IoT Device Data Processing: The vendor states that this feature enables the decentralization of IoT applications by deploying all or part of their workloads in containers or VMs at the edge. This approach accelerates processing, reduces overall bandwidth cost, and secures data, resulting in faster response times and more efficient resource utilization.

SD-WAN: According to the vendor, businesses can combine VMs deployed as virtual appliances, proprietary VPN, and secure transit to create a network that acts as a dedicated circuit. This feature enhances network performance, security, and reliability, enabling the creation of a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) architecture.

Private Global DNS: Users can deploy a DNS service as a container or VM to create and manage a proprietary DNS solution for fast, private resolutions. According to the vendor, this ensures fast and reliable DNS resolution for applications and websites, providing control and customization over DNS configurations.

Security Hardware as a Virtual Appliance: The vendor claims that businesses can replace or enhance costly, inflexible, regionally-limited hardware security devices by deploying proprietary or OEM software on VMs. This feature enhances security capabilities while reducing costs and increasing flexibility, allowing for the deployment of tailored security solutions.

Security Software as a Service: According to the vendor, businesses can convert legacy security software titles to run and be sold as a global security service, deployed in containers. This approach offers security solutions as a service, providing scalability and flexibility, simplifying management and deployment of security software.

Networking Hardware as a Virtual Appliance: The vendor states that businesses can integrate an authentication management service into their workflow, triggering authorization processes for any inbound request and subsequently allowing access. This feature increases privacy, protects valuable content, and provides total access control, enabling the deployment of networking solutions as virtual appliances.

Networking Software as a Service: The vendor claims that businesses can convert and deploy legacy on-prem network management or protection software as a global solution in containers or scripts. This approach offers networking solutions as a service, providing scalability and flexibility, streamlining network management and deployment.