IO River lets you mix and match CDNs without the hassle

IO River, a company that builds a layer on top of content delivery networks (CDNs) to simplify switching between them, has emerged from stealth with a $5.4 million seed funding round led by S Capital. The company was founded by industry veterans Edward Tsinovoi and Michael Hakimi, who previously worked together at Akamai. IO River's platform offers core services such as traffic splitting between providers for optimal uptime, performance, and cost, as well as a unified management console. It also provides application services like a web application firewall, rate limiting, and origin load balancing.

The platform allows users to run the same code on different platforms without modifications and offers a unified edge computing service. Users can import their existing CDN provider’s settings and add new providers as needed. IO River also provides analytics to help users determine which network to use in a given location and set up automatic rules for network switching. The enterprise platform supports several CDN providers, and there is also a free version with limited features.

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IO River, a company that simplifies switching between Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), has launched with a $5.4 million seed funding round led by S Capital.
The company was founded by industry veterans Edward Tsinovoi and Michael Hakimi, who previously worked together at Akamai’s Tel Aviv office.
IO River provides core services such as splitting traffic between providers for optimal uptime, performance, and cost, and a unified management console. It also offers its own application services and a unified edge computing platform.
The service currently supports Akamai, Cachefly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront, Edgio, EdgeNext, CDNetworks, Fastly and GCore, and offers a free version with limited features.

IO River lets you mix and match CDNs without the hassle | TechCrunch

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