Global Infrastructure

Limelight Networks entered the CDN industry in 2001 with a vision to deliver brilliant Internet experiences to an emerging and voracious online audience. From the beginning, we never asked our customers to settle for less than what their users demanded: images, web pages, video, music, games, social media, software downloads—all delivered at lightning-fast speeds.

We designed our network architecture for exactly that: to maximize the user experience through high-performance and reliable delivery of every object, every time. No matter how challenging your delivery requirements—how large your files or how massive and eclectic your library—our infrastructure can support your business while it’s supporting all of our other customers. Here’s how.

Massively provisioned Compute Centers

Each Limelight Networks Compute Center houses thousands of servers that do the heavy lifting for your content delivery. Whether your deployment requires one server or two hundred, each distribution center has the capacity for your entire catalog. We don’t force you to choose a subset. And our global footprint means your user’s request can be fulfilled from a nearby center—since content is close at hand.

Direct connections to access networks

Limelight Networks boasts direct connections to 950+ last-mile access networks around the world. And since most of these connections are via superfast 10GigE technology, your content is delivered in the fastest way possible—in most cases, straight to the networks your audiences use every day and bypassing the often-congested public Internet.

Global fiber-optic interconnect

Our dedicated high-speed network spans the globe, interconnecting all of our regional data centers over a fiber-optic backbone. This allows Limelight Networks to deliver the most massive of files. And even the most obscure objects in your library can blast their way to your users at CDN speeds—just as fast as your most popular objects.

Technical advantages

For control of the entire delivery path—from origin to edge to end user—our network relies on an intelligent software layer, an open platform, and APIs that enable you to integrate management and reporting functions into your own applications. Advanced technologies, such as IPv6 and MPLS, ensure your content delivery operations are ready for the future of your business.