Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited Partners with Cloudflare, Inc. to Improve Internet Response Time
January 01, 2019
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Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited announced partnership with Cloudflare Inc. to improve internet response time. To optimize network performance, PTCL has added Cloudflare's Content Delivery Network to its list of internationally renowned global CDNs, which include but are not limited to Google, Facebook and Netflix. The major implication of this new agreement is that these domains are to be hosted locally, meaning greater accessibility from all three regions North, South and Central of Pakistan. This move will ultimately result in an enhanced user experience for PTCL's valued customers. Numerically speaking, the latency to downstream customers is set to decrease from 150ms and above to close to 20ms-a 750% improvement. Barring improved latency, Cloudflare's new CDN also enables PTCL to access a better DNS. Since every internet related action is initiated with the aid of a DNS request, it is crucial for a company to access the fastest possible directory in order to optimize performance. PTCL is now connected to the world's fastest DNS (1.1.1.1), which will now be accessed, hosted and served locally. With the 1.1.1.1 directory being six times faster than the average Internet Service Provider, PTCL users can expect an instantaneous improvement in network accessibility. GPON customers will access 1.1.1.1 in close to 5ms and VDSL/DSL will access it within 25ms across Pakistan.
Cloudflare, Inc. is a connectivity cloud company. It is a global cloud services provider that delivers a range of services to businesses of all sizes and in all geographies. Its network serves as a scalable, unified control plane to deliver security, performance, and reliability across on-premise, hybrid, cloud and software-as-a-service applications. Its integrated suite of products consists of solutions for an organization's external-facing infrastructure, such as Websites, applications and application programming interfaces to deliver security and reliability; solutions to serve an organization's internal resources, such as internal networks and devices; developer-based solutions and consumer offerings. Its security products include Web Application Firewall, Bot Management, SSL/TLS Encryption and Secure Origin Connection. Its performance products include Content Delivery, Intelligent Routing, Content Optimization and Others. It also offers a zero trust infrastructure access platform.
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