Case Studies

Real outcomes from edge acceleration, security and the AI gateway

Anonymized scenario cases across gaming, e-commerce, media, SaaS, downloads and AI — how teams used IXCDN for measurable latency, cost and security results.

Gaming

Accelerating Patch Delivery for a Global Game Publisher

Day-one patch downloads overwhelmed origin bandwidth; edge delivery plus Origin Shield cut origin load and sped up downloads.

Challenge: Day-one global concurrent downloads saturated origin bandwidth; overseas failure rates were high and slow, hurting first experience and support tickets.
Solution: Installers and patches ride IXCDN edge cache and chunked delivery; Origin Shield collapses origin fetches; cache and rate limits are set per region and carrier, with access logs to spot hotspots.

-90%

Origin load

99.9%

Day-one uptime

TB-scale

Stable delivery

E-Commerce

Faster Global Access for a Cross-Border E-Commerce Platform

Slow overseas product pages with high bounce; edge cache and image optimization cut load times and lifted conversion.

Challenge: Overseas users were far from origin; product pages and images loaded slowly — especially on mobile — driving high bounce and conversion pressure.
Solution: Static assets and product images are served from edge cache nearby with automatic WebP/AVIF and per-device crop/resize; dynamic APIs ride smart routing; payment and login run behind edge WAF and bot protection.

80%+

Faster overseas

91%

Cache hit

-60%

Origin bandwidth cost

Media & Streaming

Million-Concurrent Stable Delivery for a Live Platform

Extreme premiere concurrency and rebuffering; edge RAM cache and low-latency protocols cut first-frame and rebuffering.

Challenge: Premiere concurrency was extreme, straining origin and transcoding bandwidth; cross-network first-frame and rebuffering hurt retention; assets were hotlinked and scraped.
Solution: Live streams ride edge RAM cache and micro-segmented cache to cut latency; Secure Token, hotlink protection and rate limiting guard rights and bandwidth; HTTP/3 improves mobile viewing.

-38%

First-frame wait

Millions

Concurrent viewers

99.9%

Live uptime

SaaS

Global Speed-Up for a SaaS Console and APIs

High, unstable overseas latency for console and APIs; edge acceleration and front-line protection made responses faster and kept attacks off origin.

Challenge: Overseas console and API latency was high and unstable, hurting retention; public APIs faced DDoS, scraping and credential stuffing; availability and compliance demands were high.
Solution: Static frontend rides edge cache; dynamic APIs ride smart routing with origin optimization; the whole site sits behind edge WAF, DDoS, access control and rate limiting; unified logs simplify audit and troubleshooting.

-50%

API latency

99.9%

SLA uptime

99.9%+

Attack blocking

Downloads

Lower Cost and Faster Delivery for a Software Vendor

Update peaks strained origin bandwidth; edge delivery and Origin Shield cut origin cost and steadied downloads.

Challenge: Update peaks drove concentrated downloads, spiking origin bandwidth and cost; overseas and cross-network failure rates were high; distribution needed control by channel, version and region.
Solution: Installers ride edge prefetch + chunked cache + resumable transfer; Origin Shield collapses fetches; cache and rate limits are set per region, channel and version, with download-volume analytics.

-90%

Origin load

99.9%

Download success

-60%

Origin cost

AI Apps

Unified Model Ingress and Token-Stream Acceleration for an AI App

Scattered keys, choppy streaming and opaque cost; the edge AI gateway cut first-token time and made cost transparent.

Challenge: LLM latency was volatile with choppy streaming; multiple models and keys were scattered, with messy rate limiting and failover; token usage and cost were hard to reconcile per business; keys exposed to clients risked leakage.
Solution: AI traffic enters the IXCDN edge AI gateway: a unified OpenAI-compatible ingress, connection reuse and nearby ingress accelerate streaming; keys are centralized, isolated and rate-limited; tokens and requests are tracked by model/business/endpoint.

-38%

First-token wait

Zero change

to adopt major models

Transparent

token cost

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