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Users far from our region see 200 ms of extra latency. When do CDN, Local Zones and Wavelength each become the answer?

Latency budgets decide architecture, and most teams buy edge compute before earning it with caching and protocol work. Know which rung of the ladder your problem actually needs.

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Latency budgets decide architecture, and most teams buy edge compute before earning it with caching and protocol work. Know which rung of the ladder your problem actually needs.

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