SP//
FOR GAMING

Give your games and players the ultimate power-up.

Better Player Experiences

Exceptional Control & Scalability

Simplified Security & Protection

Lower Total Cost of Operations

Developing and delivering Internet-enabled games is not rated E for everyone. As games get faster, richer, and more interactive, players get less patient with lag, downloads, down-rezzing, and device incompatibility.

StackPath is a complete edge-computing platform, giving you a full range of options for solving these challenges by placing game workloads and applications closer to players than ever before. See how. Game on.

StackPath knows the needs of game developers and publishers, which aligns their knowledge with our needs very well. StackPath gives us advanced analytics, control with an easily accessible API and console, and a great team that works closely with us to make sure our content is always performing its best.”

Deepak Thakral • VP, Product & Engineering, Chartboost

Case Study

Industry-leading studios, publishers, and game technology providers find StackPath wins for:

Application protection

Protect applications including websites, online games, APIs and SaaS products, with little to no additional performance overhead or impact to legitimate traffic

Content protection

Control access to and protect the value of the content you sell or deliver, such as photography, video streams and files, audio streams and software packages

DDoS attack mitigation

Block and resolve application-layer DDoS attacks of any size, with unique and comprehensive identification technologies and techniques.

Virtual patching

Quickly and easily protect newly identified application vulnerabilities that have not yet been patched in your application source code.

Advantages

Our platform literally gives gaming workloads an edge. Actually, make that “edges,” plural. Here’re a few examples.

Fast and Reliable Global Downloads

Our advanced delivery technologies include segmented file downloads for any file size and exceptional cache depth to make downloads fast, efficient and dependable.

3x Faster End-user to IaaS Connections

Our virtual machines and containers are closer end users, giving your workloads lower latency.

Better Multiplayer, Mobile and XR Experiences

Placing workloads at the edge provides the low latency that the most demanding game technologies require.

Easy Content Customization

A wide range of dynamic delivery features makes it easy to customize content on the fly, including in-game ads, to provide personalized player experiences.

Global private network backbone

All StackPath solutions leverage our edge network with a private backbone between our locations for faster, secure, intelligent data transfer.

Markets

43

EDGE Locations

73

Egress Capacity

100+Tbps

Empower game workloads with industry-leading edge compute and applications running on our global edge platform.

Edge Compute

Deploy game servers, applications, micro-services, and more on your terms, with virtual machines or containers in our edge locations worldwide.

Up to 3x faster connections

Auto-scaling

Anycast IP Addresses

Network Policy Controls

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Edge Delivery

Accelerate, customize, and control delivery of game downloads, in-game content, APIs and more with intelligent CDN or robust Edge Delivery, with powerful features, including:

Direct Connect

Edge Security

Protect game servers, APIs, and services with a powerful cloud firewall that provides enterprise-grade protection with little-to-no setup and configuration required.

Extensive standard security policies

OWASP threat protection

Device-level fingerprinting

Bot protection

Layer-7 DDoS attack mitigation

A simple illustration showing ease of use for StackPath WAF

Ready to take your game to the edge?

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Learn more about the SP// platform

Powering all of StackPath is a high-performance, fully automated, and completely secure global platform that seamlessly integrates best-in-class orchestration, hardware infrastructure, and network architecture.

Edge locations

73 edge locations strategically deployed where customers’ end-users are most densely concentrated. Unlike legacy providers’, each location is a complete deployment of our computing, networking, and orchestration stack.

EdgeEngine™

Our orchestration engine provisions and manages all aspects of SP// edge IaaS, edge applications, and accounts, and puts the whole StackPath platform at customers’ fingertips via an easy to use customer portal and comprehensive APIs.

Edge network

Our multi-dimensional network provides high-speed throughput (with up to 95% of all traffic handed directly to last-mile networks) and exceptional total egress capacity (100+Tbps). Also, it keeps data off the public internet as long as possible.