CDN company StackPath expands its presence in Latin America
StackPath now has POPs (Points-of-Presence) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Santiago, Chile; Bogota Colombia; and Lima, Peru. With the latest additions, StackPath now has more than 50 POPs in 35 countries on five continents.
In the right place
Mexico and Latin America have become hot spots for service providers, content providers and cloud providers as more companies accelerate their digital transformations due to the Covid 19 pandemic and increased demand for cloud services.
"We are focused on having a robust presence in the right places, not necessarily in the most places," said Will Charnock, CTO of StackPath, who was formerly co-founder and CEO of PacketFabric, in a statement. "We only build where we have the connectivity, logistics and local conditions necessary to deliver the performance, scalability and security our customers need for their most rigorous, mission-critical workloads. Definitely quality over quantity. "
StackPath, founded six years ago as a traffic analytics security provider, is a cloud-independent alternative to major public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Project and Microsoft Azure.
Last March, Dallas, Texas-based StackPath closed a $216 million Series B funding round led by Juniper Networks and Cox Communications to bring its total to $396 million.
StackPath is pursuing a two-pronged strategy to take on the major public cloud providers while enabling vendors and service providers to offer new edge-related services. Service providers like Cox could use StackPath to offer third-party application developers "edge infrastructure-as-a-service," allowing the service providers to capture all service revenue while the app developers generate their own revenue by offering their apps through a marketplace.
Juniper, working with StackPath and service providers to integrate its Contrail cloud platform with StackPath, could offer, manage, operate and generate revenue from an edge computing platform. By working with StackPath, service providers won't have to give up revenue opportunities to large cloud providers or increase the cost of building their own edge computing capabilities.
StackPath combines content network delivery (CDN) capabilities with its edge compute portfolio, virtual machines (VMs), containers and its serverless computing platform, as well as edge services web application firewalls (WAFs), managed DNS, service monitoring and DDoS protection. SackPath separates the control and data plans by using its intellectual property and software to run workloads in CDNs at the edge in a dynamic or software-defined manner.
With the relocation of workloads, Data and applications to the cloud, accelerated by the Covid 19 pandemic, service providers such as AT & T and Telefónica are forming edge cloud partnerships with AWS, Azure and Google to build their edge computing networks, including 5G services and IoT applications.
StackPath has announced that it could provide the same applications and services as these cloud providers, but with additional edge CDNs.
