Limelight Networks: Delivering exceptional digital experiences

The Silicon Review

In a digital world with no patience for slow or unreliable digital experiences, the processing and delivery of your digital assets has to be fast, reliable and secure. Limelight’s powerful edge services platform is uniquely able to deliver on these expectations by leveraging our global private IP network, intelligent software and world-class service and support. The company offers:

Fast, Reliable and Secure Private Global Network

Limelight has one of the world’s largest, private global networks, enabling you to bypass internet congestion and avoid many security potholes. Optimized for the highest performance, our infrastructure includes:

50+ Tbps egress capacity and 100GbE private fibre backbone connected to 1,000+ ISP and last-mile networks
~120 Points of Presence around the world, unlike other cloud solutions that restrict your presence to a handful of datacentres
Dense architecture with industry-leading 98% cache-hit efficiency
Industry’s highest performingorigin storage solution
Global edge processing capabilities that enable real-time applications and workflows

Free Access to World Class Service

If you encounter a problem, you should be able to talk to a human - and a competent one at that! At Limelight, every person is committed to delivering a better experience for you and your customer, which is just one reason its customer satisfaction scores continue to reach new highs year after year. Limelight services include:

Free, unrestricted access to live technical support
A 24/7/365 global Network Operations Center
An award-winning Professional Services team with extensive expertise solving complex integration challenges
Responsive service and support teams with proven experience helping customers successfully deliver some of the internet’s largest events

Products offered by Limelight Networks:

Content delivery

Limelight's network infrastructure spans the globe with a QoS (Quality of Service) enabled network of about 120 Points-of-Presence (PoPs) in more than 45 metropolitan locations. Each Limelight PoP has a high density of fast servers with SSDs (Solid State Disks) resulting in one of the highest cache efficiency ratios in the industry, which means greater origin offload, better performance and lower bandwidth costs for Limelight customers. Limelight's private fibre backbone enables content to bypass the congested public internet, resulting in faster, more reliable, and more secure content delivery. Limelight owns and operates one of the world's largest private networks, which results in a superior user experience in a more secure infrastructure with the capacity to support the most onerous digital traffic demands. Unlike traditional CDN vendors who rely on third-party technologies for key components of their content delivery infrastructure, Limelight’s ongoing technology investments in its comprehensive EdgePrism software stack have produced breakthrough delivery performance by controlling the entire content delivery process.

Edge Cloud

Unlike traditional cloud service providers who rely on the congested public internet to transfer your critical data, Limelight operates one of the world’s largest private networks with global scale and reach that minimizes latencies. Limelight’s edge cloud eliminates the cost and complexity of using traditional cloud computing environments for low-latency IoT and edge compute applications. Limelight’s global private networkoffers the scale and reach you need to minimize latencies associated with typical cloud infrastructures by reducing the distance between your sources of data and the network edge. Its global private network includes ~120 Points of Presence (PoPs) in more than 45 metropolitan locations covering every region of the world. By strategically locating PoPs across the globe and through peering connections to more than 1,000 ISPs and leading public cloud providers, Limelight eliminates the latencies associated with sending information to distant data centers and enables critical real-time data processing and analysis.

Cloud Security

Limelight's cloud security services offer a layered defence against malicious website attacks and unauthorized content access without impacting the performance of your web applications and content delivery. Limelight DDoS Attack Interceptor protects against denial of service attacks intended to overload online services with large volumes of malicious traffic. Limelight Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) protects your web sites and web applications against malicious HTTP application layer attacks that are intended to compromise your web site and steal data. TLS/SSL capabilities encrypt data so it cannot be intercepted in transit, and multiple content security methods are available so only authorized users have access to your valuable content. Limelight offers a scalable range of cloud security solutions that protect your infrastructure and your content without impacting performance.

Meet the CEO, Robert A. Lento

Bob Lento was named as Limelight’s Chief Executive Officer in January 2013 and has served on the board of directors since that time. He focuses the company on driving innovation and product excellence, improving the customer experience to create customers for life, driving profitable revenue and being an employer of choice. Previously, Bob was a senior executive at Convergys Corporation, a provider of customer management services, most recently as President of the Information Management Division. His experience spans roles such as President of LAN Systems for Donnelly Enterprise Solutions, Inc., and leadership positions at ENTEX Information Services, Inc. Bob received a B.S. in Management from the State University of New York.