Comcast CorpComcast embeds Fastly's programmable edge software into its edge compute platform, an industry-first delivery partnership improving streaming latency and data delivery for Xfinity members.
Comcast and Fastly announced a next-generation content and application delivery partnership that embeds Fastly's programmable edge software into Comcast's edge compute platform, pushing live streaming content closer to customers' homes for millions of Xfinity members. The deployment creates an industry-first hyper-local service layer across Comcast's nationwide network, which includes more than 200 AI-powered, data-processing edge compute centers distributed across the country. Initial results have demonstrated substantial gains in data delivery and significant reductions in round-trip latency compared to traditional content delivery mechanisms, with the platform designed to handle massive live streaming traffic, real-time security, edge compute, and AI services. Elad Nafshi, Chief Network Officer at Comcast, said the stakes will never be higher than during the upcoming fall football season, when a single streaming game can drive record network traffic, and that integrating Fastly establishes a new approach for delivering the biggest moments in streaming. Kip Compton, Chief Executive Officer at Fastly, said extending Fastly's platform into Comcast's network brings more local performance and real-time traffic management to streaming, compute, and security applications while infusing intelligence into the network layer for the AI era.
Comcast CorpComcast embeds Fastly's programmable edge software into its edge compute platform, an industry-first delivery partnership improving streaming latency and data delivery for Xfinity members.
Fastly, Inc. Class A Common StockFastly's platform is being deployed across Comcast's nationwide network of 200+ edge compute centers, a concrete customer win extending its edge delivery services.