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What Are the Differences Between IEC and Related Products?

Table 1 compares IEC with CloudPond and Content Delivery Network (CDN).

Table 1 Differences between IEC and related products

Product Name

IEC

CloudPond

CDN

Positioning

A distributed edge cloud service with wide coverage

A fully managed service that extends Huawei Cloud infrastructure to the on-premises facility

An intelligent virtual network constructed on existing Internet infrastructure

Capability

Provides multi-architecture computing to meet various requirements and allows you to deploy services nearby to reduce network latency and store data locally.

Extends the Huawei Cloud infrastructure and cloud services to your on-premises data center to allow you to enjoy ultra-low latency and faster access to applications on the cloud.

Speeds up site response and improves site availability, breaking through the bottlenecks caused by low bandwidth, heavy user access traffic, and uneven distribution of network nodes.

Application Scenario

Enterprise applications, live streaming, rendering acceleration, and cloud gaming

Innovative services, cloud migration, and local data storage

Content acceleration, such as website acceleration and download acceleration

Deployment Location

Huawei Cloud–leased data centers

On-premises data center

Carrier equipment room