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Hot content, served from inside Punjab.

A localised cache fabric across our Lahore, Islamabad and Faisalabad PoPs for content owners and OTT platforms. Lower upstream transit, faster eyeball delivery, and traffic that stops bouncing through Karachi or Frankfurt before reaching the user three kilometres away.

On-net cache OTT + software Anycast capable
N S W E AJK ISB Islamabad SKT Sialkot GUJ Gujranwala SGD Sargodha LHE Lahore FSD Faisalabad SAH Sahiwal MUL Multan DGK DG Khan BWP Bahawalpur RYK Rahim Yar Khan KHI Karachi VCLOUD · BACKBONE AS137492 · DWDM 100/400G NOC ONLINE · 24×7 CAPACITY · 1.6 TBPS UTILISATION · 48% CORE HUB CORE / AGG POP DWDM FIBRE 0 200 KM 400
OVERVIEW

The cache that lives where the eyeballs do.

The economics of streaming, software distribution and hot static assets in Pakistan are still dominated by submarine-cable transit. Every megabit served from a Singapore or Frankfurt origin shows up twice on the bill: once for the upstream fetch and once for the eyeball deliver. The fix is to keep the bytes inside the country — ideally inside the same metro as the user.

Our edge fabric is a set of cache nodes co-located with our PoPs in Lahore (two sites), Islamabad and Faisalabad. We host customer-managed caches (your image, your config) on our hardware or yours, with anycast-routed front-ends, RPKI-clean announcements, and a measured cache-fill path from origin. We also operate as a delivery partner for hyperscaler-fronted CDNs who want a Punjab footprint without buying real estate.

USE CASES

Workloads we already carry.

01

OTT video streaming

Local OTT platforms with Punjab-heavy viewership running our cache for the long tail of catalogue content while keeping new releases on origin.

02

Software and OS updates

Distributed software-update fleets: Linux package mirrors, mobile-OS deltas, browser updates. Hot bytes pinned in cache, cold ones fetched on demand.

03

Game launchers and patches

Game distribution platforms placing patch traffic on our nodes — typical 80%+ hit ratio during major release windows.

04

Image and video CDN for marketplaces

E-commerce and classified platforms delivering product imagery from edge instead of origin, cutting page load by 200–400 ms.

05

Live event ingest distribution

Single-origin ingest fanned out to multiple ABR profiles via our cache, then onward to viewer-side CDNs across Pakistan.

06

DNS and small-object acceleration

Anycast DNS / small-object front-end on our edge fabric, with health-checked origin fallback.

SPECIFICATION

What we publish on the design doc.

Edge footprint
Metric Target Notes
Edge sites 4 (LHE × 2, ISB, FSD) Aligned with our PoPs
Per-site capacity 200 – 800 Gbps Scales by 100G uplink
Compute profile 1U / 2U cache nodes Customer-supplied or VCloud
Storage tiers NVMe hot / SATA warm Sized to working set
Anycast Supported Customer prefix or shared front-end
TLS termination On-edge (optional) Customer-provided cert
Performance & SLA
Metric Target Notes
Eyeball RTT (intra-Punjab) ≤ 20 ms p95 From cache to typical eyeball
Cache hit ratio Customer-tuned We report; customer controls policy
Origin pull latency ≤ 200 ms intl. Via primary upstream
Availability 99.95% per site Anycast → 99.99% effective
Logging S3-compatible bucket Per-request, gzip, hourly
Purge API REST + signed URLs Sub-30s globally
DEPLOYMENT

From design call to production traffic.

  1. 01

    Workload profile

    Day 0 – 5. We map your traffic — object size mix, TTL, hot-set size — to a node count and storage tier.

  2. 02

    Hardware + IP

    Day 5 – 15. Node racking, anycast prefix coordination, BGP onto our edge.

  3. 03

    Origin + tuning

    Day 15 – 22. Origin pull tested, cache rules dialled, log shipping verified.

  4. 04

    Production

    Day 22 – 28. DNS cutover, hit-ratio ramp, monthly performance review scheduled.

FAQ

Pre-sales questions we get.

Are you a CDN or a colocation provider with a cache?
Both. For customers who want to bring their own cache image (a known CDN's appliance, or their own) we provide the rack, transit and BGP. For customers without an in-house caching stack we operate a managed cache that you configure with TTL and purge rules.
Do you front-end the TLS or do I?
Either. Customer-terminated TLS is preferred for content owners with strict key custody; on-edge termination is faster but requires you to either upload certs or hand us a private CA. We never escrow private keys without an explicit DPA.
How is billing structured?
Per-site monthly fee plus 95th-percentile egress on the customer port. There is no per-request fee. Storage is included up to the sized working set; beyond that it is billed per TB/month.
Can I see a real hit-ratio report before signing?
Yes. We typically run a two-week shadow test where we mirror a sample of your traffic to one of our edge nodes and produce a hit-ratio + latency report.
Does this work for live video?
For mid-pull live (segmented HLS / DASH) yes — we cache segments and serve them out. For sub-second live (LL-HLS, WebRTC) we run a different stack and quote it separately.
What about content compliance?
We comply with directed take-down and access-restriction orders from PTA at the edge. We do not perform deep packet inspection on customer traffic and we do not log payloads. See our compliance page for the full posture.

Bring us a traffic profile, we'll bring you a hit-ratio.

Share a sampled access log or a description of your delivery pattern. We'll come back with a node count, an expected hit ratio and a latency estimate to typical Punjab eyeballs.