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Uplynk

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8 Reviews and Ratings

What is Uplynk?

Edgio Delivery is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) designed to provide high-quality and reliable streaming video and file downloads at a large scale. It caters to various professions and industries, including media and entertainment, e-commerce, online gaming, software development, and educational institutions.

Key Features

Global Scale: Edgio Delivery operates globally with over 300 Points of Presence (PoPs) and more than 250 Tbps of capacity, ensuring fast and reliable content delivery worldwide.

Peering: Edgio Delivery has an extensive peering infrastructure with over 7,000 global interconnections to last-mile networks, optimizing content delivery through efficient routes.

Performance: Edgio Delivery is globally recognized for its fast response times, making it one of the top CDNs for streaming video and file downloads.

Storage: Edgio Delivery supports industry-standard file transfer protocols and web services for data replication, movement, and storage, ensuring optimal delivery performance and content availability.

Control: Edgio Delivery offers customizable content delivery options through various interfaces such as Terraform, APIs, UI, and SDKs, giving users full control over their content delivery.

Edge Control: Edgio's Edge Control feature enables next-gen configuration management, allowing developers to combine all delivery features into a single JSON configuration file that can be rapidly propagated to the edge in less than 2 minutes. It supports versioning, full API support, and integration with CLI and Terraform.

Rules Engine: Edgio's intuitive interface simplifies content delivery configurations, providing users with more control. The Rules Engine feature allows for the creation of custom rules based on "if-then" logic, optimizing content delivery based on specific requirements.

Terraform: Edgio Delivery offers a Terraform Provider, allowing users to manage CDN accounts using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools. It facilitates the management of users, account settings, delivery configurations, and Rules Engine policies.

Real-time Log Delivery: Edgio Delivery provides real-time log delivery, ensuring instant access to data for managing web applications and infrastructure. Logs are delivered within 60 seconds, enabling integration with SIEM for threat intelligence.

Edge Insights: Edgio Delivery offers real-time, interactive analytics through its Edge Insights feature. With multidimensional filtering across CDN and security data, users can access critical information in a unified dashboard, gaining insights into user behavior and content performance.

Categories & Use Cases

Uplynk helps my business quickly clip video from broadcast

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work at a television station and we use Uplynk to clip video from our broadcasts for use on the website and on our YouTube channel. The produce is useful for allowing us to quickly get content from television online in a mostly seamless fashion so we can get additional views for our web audience.

Pros

  • Video clipping
  • Video playback
  • Archiving video content

Cons

  • Streaming video issues
  • Poor top image selection
  • Easier to use timeline for clip navigation

Return on Investment

  • Allows us to gain video views on our website
  • Allows for video to be clipped from broadcast to YouTube
  • Video archiving from television to digital

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Braze

Best Support and Attitude on the Front Lines

Pros

  • We used Limelight Networks (LLNW) for content storage and reporting. They continued to update and improve the platform. Their customer communication approach had evolved over the years to become very good.
  • We webcast live events throughout North America and abroad from multiple locations for multiple clients, simultaneously.
  • We built applications on top of LLNW infrastructure.

Cons

  • We found the LLNW business model and therefore workflow is not set up for multiple live webcasts. It can be done but it is not cost-effective as compared to competitors.
  • While their contracts evolve to be more competitive, those original customers/supporters are trapped in old un-competitive contracts and sales blames the lawyers for their inability to make changes.

Return on Investment

  • We built our live and archived webcasting part of our business around the LLNW platform. We built a successful business with the assistance of their tools and network. Management is really working hard to ensure clients are happy and are being assisted by the organization.

Alternatives Considered

Akamai, Brightcove Zencoder, Vimeo Live, IBM Cloud Video and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)