EdgeCast vs MetaCDN: What are the differences?

EdgeCast: The world's fastest and most reliable content delivery network. EdgeCast is a content delivery network (CDN) that helps companies accelerate and deliver static and dynamic content to end users around the world. Major customers include Yahoo!, Tumblr, Pinterest, Wordpress, and Imgur. The company has about 4,500 customers (as of June 2012) and carries about 5% of the world’s internet traffic; MetaCDN: Multi-CDN that combines existing CDN networks and directs individual users to the fastest CDN provider in their region. MetaCDN harnesses and combines existing CDN networks. We offer a truly global CDN network and our patent pending technology dynamically selects the CDN provider which will be fastest for individual users.

EdgeCast and MetaCDN can be categorized as "Content Delivery Network" tools.

Some of the features offered by EdgeCast are:

• Caching- From whole sites to mobile, our acceleration and delivery services will bring you to the world's digital doorstep.
• Application Delivery- Accelerate delivery of your web applications and non-static content.
• Streaming- Flash, Silverlight, or HTTP – live or on-demand, we'll deliver it better than anyone.

On the other hand, MetaCDN provides the following key features:

• Global network of 110+ PoPs. We combine multiple CDN providers into one global network. Our current suppliers are: EdgeCast, Amazon CloudFront, and Fastly.
• Content is served from the fastest provider for individual users.
• Extremely reliable. If one provider goes down, we will start serving content from the second fastest provider.