Fastly Doubles Down on Serving Global Market With Expanded Australia Presence
July 31 2019 - 7:08PM
Business Wire
With points-of-presence on both Australian
coasts, Fastly’s edge cloud platform gears up to better serve
content on a global scale
Fastly, Inc., a provider of an edge cloud platform, today
announced its global expansion in Australia. The move comes with
Fastly points-of-presence (POPs) on both coasts of the continent,
furthering the company’s mission to power faster, more secure, and
more reliable digital experiences for its global customer base. In
tandem, Fastly has recruited a growing in-region team, which
includes Mark Nottingham, the co-chair of working groups HTTP and
QUIC within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and Andrew
McGregor, 20+-year industry veteran leading performance measurement
in Fastly’s Australian market.
Fastly’s edge cloud platform maximizes efficiency with 64
powerful, strategically located POPs (as of June 30, 2019) that
deliver content as close to end-users around the world as possible.
Having placed four of these POPs covering both coasts of Australia,
Fastly helps Asia-Pacific (APAC)-based customers such as Seven West
Media, Kogan.com, Network 10, and NRL deliver fast and highly
personalized online experiences to their users.
“At Fastly, we’re building a better internet on a global scale.
That means faster, more reliable digital content no matter where
you’re located,” explained Fastly President Joshua Bixby. “With our
expanded Australia team, we’re doubling down on our commitment to
helping digital businesses keep pace with high consumer
expectations and a competitive marketplace, worldwide.”
This development will enable more connectivity for companies
looking to make a bigger digital impact in Australia and will
benefit existing global customers looking to serve content more
effectively to the APAC region.
Network 10’s general manager, digital Liz Baldwin said: “As
Fastly’s foundation partner here in Australia, it’s really exciting
to see the team set up shop locally. They’ve made the publishing
process easier for news publishers like 10 Daily which specializes
in delivering breaking, up to date news. Fastly allows us to
identify publishing trends and problems quickly, speeding up the
publishing process and delivering a smoother and more seamless user
experience.”
“The 7plus team welcomes more innovation in the Australian CDN
market and has been impressed with trials of the Fastly platform
for Image Optimization and media delivery,” said Darren Kerry
Director of Digital, Product and Technology at Seven West
Media.
To help guide Fastly’s efforts in Australia, Fastly has hired
co-chair of the HTTP and QUIC working groups at the IETF Mark
Nottingham as Principal Engineer. Having chaired the HTTP Working
Group since 2007 and the QUIC Working Group since 2016, Nottingham
is a veteran in internet architecture and operations who has been
involved in the Australian Internet since working at connect.com.au
in the mid-90's. Andrew McGregor also joins the helm of the
Australia team as Performance Measurement Lead. McGregor helped
build Google’s SRE, previously chaired IETF’s CORE working group,
and has been administering networks since before the web was
invented.
To learn more about how Fastly is building a better internet
around the globe, visit https://www.fastly.com/.
About Fastly
Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they
love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create
great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by
processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as
close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the internet.
The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet,
to be programmable, and to support agile software development.
Fastly’s customers’ use our edge cloud platform to ensure
concertgoers can buy tickets to the live events they love,
travelers can book flights seamlessly and embark on their next
great adventure, and sports fans can stream events in real time,
across devices. They include many of the world’s most prominent
companies, including Spotify, Alaska Airlines, Hulu, The New York
Times, and Ticketmaster.
This press release contains “forward-looking” statements that
are based on our beliefs and assumptions and on information
currently available to us on the date of this press release.
Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results,
performance, or achievements to be materially different from those
expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These
statements include, but are not limited to, the capability and
efficiency of our POPs, the benefits of such POPs to our customers
in the APAC region and globally, and our global expansion. Except
as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these
forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons
actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in
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available in the future. Important factors that could cause our
actual results to differ materially are detailed from time to time
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Commission (SEC), including our prospectus filed with the SEC
pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4) dated May 16, 2019. Copies of reports
filed with the SEC are posted on Fastly’s website and are available
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