GAMING CDN

CDNetworks accelerates online gaming to keep gamers online and lag-free.

Why a CDN is Vital for Serious Gamers

Gamers are a notoriously impatient group of consumers, quick to anger and prone to action en masse if the services they demand are not up to scratch. Online gaming requires fast reactions and sometimes over a hundred mouse clicks each minute – a robust and fast gaming CDN is vital to maintain a good experience.

How Can a Content Delivery Network Improve Your Gaming Experience?

Optimizing downloads and applications

More complex games demand ever-larger files and more from the networks delivering these files. CDNetworks Content Acceleration allows large downloads to be optimized to ensure that game delivery is fast, and dynamic data is accelerated so the most up-to-date information is available.

Running gaming application seamlessly at the edge

Applications, including online gaming that require a real-time response or need to move large data payloads, can’t rely on cloud transfer rates they need to be at the distributive low latency edge.

Minimize latency around the globe for online gaming

Some markets are especially prone to delays and poor connectivity. CDNetworks minimizes lag time in every market and delivers the best experience possible to players around the world whether they want to enjoy the latest top-selling multiplayer release or watch video streaming channels from their favorite eSport stars .

Scaling without extra cost for game launches

Game Companies have busy seasons and slow seasons, a video game’s launch will likely be its busiest time, and they don’t want to have to build an environment for peak capacity and then have it sit idle the rest of the time. CDNetworks’ CDN360 can give customers the scalability and elasticity needed for the long-term growth of their business.

Load balancing for spikes in player numbers

Player numbers are unpredictable – massive spikes normally mean performance degradation and a victim of your business success. With CDNetworks content delivery policies based on real-time conditions and targets. High-performance, availability, and efficiency never need to be compromised.

Gaming DDoS Protection to maintain online continuity

eSports and the online gaming industry is becoming a popular target of DDoS attacks. To shield your online gaming server from DDoS attacks and preserve your gaming experience, learn more about how to protect your online games from these types of attacks and vulnerabilities.

CDN for eSports Businesses and Game Developers

Do you want to build and develop a successful online game? Are there too many competitors? Are gamers just not spending money? Is your site always being hacked and brought down by competitors and hackers? Do you never have enough capital to support and expand your site?

The problem with all these issues centers around a gaming solution that can coexist with your online gaming business. With fierce competition comes continuous change, technological improvements, faster Internet speed, stable connectivity, and superior performance to deliver better online gaming experiences.

Given these advances, hundreds of new games are launched every month. At the same time, hundreds of games are delisted or suspended. To succeed, gaming companies work hard to improve their user experience, address user preferences, identify demographics, manage big data, and use analytics to streamline and optimize their product life cycle.

Games and live streaming are extremely sensitive to latency. As a result, factors such as poor network connections and long delays when transmitting large amounts of data often dictate whether gamers will decide whether a game is worthy of subscription. Other factors come into consideration as well.

Let’s look at the top 5 challenges and trends of the online gaming industry and how a gaming CDN can help:

Latency

Latency is a serious issue for any online gaming company. High latency is an obstacle to online gamers. The ideal latency for online games ranges between 20ms and 40ms. To deliver a satisfying online or mobile gaming experience, low latency is essential. Gamers are likely to leave the game room if the latency exceeds 40ms.

Availability

Fast and reliable performance with 24×7 availability is essential. If a game goes down or “lags”, the support team is called upon to rectify the issue and resolve the problem to minimize downtime.

Infrastructure Costs

High volumes of hardware and software acquisitions, along with onsite manpower to manage it all, impose massive investment costs for online gaming. Cloud-based infrastructures and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) with local points-of-presence (PoPs) worldwide eliminate these costs, slashing a gaming company’s capital expenditures and management costs while delivering attractive returns on investment (ROIs).

Scalability

Local PoPs can be used with a global load balancer to distribute gaming assets effectively and efficiently to global end users. Together, they support smooth moves and plays, speedy data exchanges, monetary transactions, workloads, and real-time communications. Static content cached on local PoPs can be served quickly to multiple locations. Sufficient security must be in place to protect vulnerable gaming servers against hackers and cyberattacks.

Speed-to-Market

In today’s rapidly changing environments, gaming companies must be able to release their online games rapidly and securely to gain user loyalty. Many gaming companies lose revenue and gamers by failing to adapt to the rules of today’s new business challenges and gamer expectations.

In recent years, the number of mobile gamers have grown significantly. Many of them prefer to play games using their smartphones. CDN360 from CDNetworks offers robust ping and download speeds along with rich PoP resources that make it ideally suited for integration with cloud-based gaming infrastructures and platforms.

Online Gaming – Case Study 1

Company X is a small online gaming start-up in Malaysia that launched its first product in 2019.

CDN360’s Dynamic Web Acceleration and Download Acceleration features have accelerated this company’s online and mobile gaming assets to users worldwide with 100% availability via our global network of data centers.

Their global users can download bulky APK game files, stream and play, and conduct data transfer within the gaming environment without suffering any packet loss.

CDN360 also delivers a dependable and reliable foundation for delivering high-speed video, audio, hi-res graphics, and push game content to Internet and mobile users alike, with the same compelling high-quality, low-latency experience.

Best of all, Company X can use CDN360 to support online game updates and game downloads without any interruption to users. This ensures a positive gaming experience for all. One year later, Company X has grown into a medium-sized company, with an increase of more than 35% return-on-investment and achieved a significant rise in subscription monetization from users in Southeast Asia.

Online Gaming – Case Study 2

Company Y is one of the leading online gaming service providers in Southeast Asia and Asia.

In early 2020, the company experienced a nearly 40% growth in users after investing in new technology that included the integration of CDN360 Content Acceleration into their gaming platform.

During this effort, CDNetworks crafted a vision that was aligned to the requirements defined by the company’s top management, and then assisted the company with translating that vision into action. The result was a drop in latency by roughly 10ms coupled with an increase in the number of gamer subscriptions.

During the COVID-19 outbreak, with most Southeast Asia and East Asia countries locked down and people working from home, the total number of users/gamers has grown more than 100%. Company Y is now poised to launch its new online and mobile games.

Weighing Customer Demand Against Securities

The online gaming industry is one of the most highly competitive businesses, with subscribers clamoring for more and better games to play, as well as an overall improvement in gameplay. But as history has shown, the more well-known a company is, the greater the potential risk for attracting malicious threats.

Risk management is one of the major concerns for gaming companies to consider in order to sustain and protect their business and minimize the risk of financial loss and the leakage of sensitive personal data.

CDN360’s always-on cloud-based DDoS protection and Flood Shield can detect and mitigate today’s virulent flood attacks while preventing the loss of customer data, maintaining privacy, securing financial information, and complying with legal and branding requirements.

Flood Shield can secure all layers of UDP, HTTP, SYN, and ACK Flood, without sacrificing the performance of gaming platforms and their integration with CDN360. CDN360 also offers self-managing and monitoring features, with views of real-time traffic and bandwidth in the user portal and logs.

CDNetworks’ online gaming solution provides a low total cost of ownership (TCO), with security, high availability, and scalability performance delivery. This comprehensive solution is offered without requiring costly investments and amortizations in unmanaged hardware and software.

This approach empowers gaming companies to reduce their capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenses (OPEX), while delivering the highest quality of safe and secure gaming experience.