What is RTT in CDN context?

RTT (Round-Trip Time) is the time it takes to send a request to a CDN server and receive a response. It is measured in milliseconds and indicates the network's response speed.

What is the difference between TTFB and RTT?

TTFB (Time To First Byte) measures the time from sending an HTTP request until receiving the first byte of the response. RTT measures the complete data exchange cycle at the network level. TTFB is usually greater than RTT because it includes the server's request processing time.

What Availability metric is considered good for CDN?

For professional CDN providers, an Availability (uptime) rate of 99.9% or higher is considered standard. Market leaders achieve 99.99% or even 99.999% availability.

Real-time download speed from EdgeCenter

EdgeCenter bandwidth by region

Все CDNvideo EdgeCenter Curator Megafon MWS CDN

RTT TTFB Throughput Availability

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EdgeCenter — a Russian CDN provider and cloud platform. In addition to content delivery, it offers DDoS protection, cloud hosting, and DNS services. The infrastructure is built on Anycast routing and is actively expanding across Russian regions and the CIS. Targeted at technology companies and projects with high fault-tolerance requirements. EdgeCenter is a dynamically growing provider that regularly increases its infrastructure capacity. The historical throughput chart for a number of regions shows a positive trend: average cached traffic speed grows over a multi-month horizon as new hardware is deployed and uplinks are expanded.

Dynamics of average download speed

Cities with low download speed

Providers with low download speed

What is Throughput and why measure it?

Throughput — the actual data transfer speed between a CDN node and the user. Measured in Mbps.
This metric is critical for:

video streaming and live broadcasts
websites with large images and files
software and game distribution

What do the Throughput charts show?

Average download speed trend chart (cached/notcached) — two key scenarios. Cached — the speed at which files are served from the CDN cache, reflecting real infrastructure performance. Notcached — the speed when fetching from your origin server. A large gap between the lines shows how important it is to configure caching correctly.
Cities with low speed — regions with congested uplinks or insufficient local node capacity. Critical for audiences in those specific locations.
Providers with low speed — a comparative bandwidth ranking. A provider with capacity headroom does not throttle speeds during peak load hours.