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Your traffic

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Estimated monthly costs

USD per month, before tax. Load balancing and unpriced extras are excluded.

What’s included?

Estimates cover cacheable content. Origin and optional services are added only when you enter their rates. Plans differ in features and coverage; check their terms before buying.

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Split traffic between regions

Percentages must total 100%. The same split applies to bytes and requests. CloudFront charges by serving edge location; this is an approximation. Shared free allowances are allocated proportionally.

Origin and optional services

Paid tiers start with this workload; estimates do not include other account traffic. Enter your own effective rates after origin allowances. Reads use request misses; egress uses byte fill. Functions assume one invocation per viewer request. Zero leaves an extra out of the estimate; it does not mean your origin is free.

Compare a quote you received

This is your quote, not a published provider price. Use an effective rate for the selected traffic mix; tiers, included usage and commitments need to be reflected in your inputs. Sharing a scenario includes your quote details.

Presets are starting assumptions, not measured traffic. Video assumes one rendition and segment GETs; playlists, retries and extra audio tracks add requests. Fill is a byte ratio, not a request cache-hit rate. GB = 1 billion bytes; Google bills GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes; CloudFront estimates use binary GB as a billing assumption.

Overview

BT has documented Open Caching deployments with Qwilt and trials of software-based caches deeper in its network. The reported workloads include live TV, on-demand video and game downloads.

Distinguish caches inside a telecom network from a directly orderable self-service CDN product.

Network

BT’s trial report describes placing software caches deeper in its access network to reduce repeated traffic across the core. The report does not list current global cache locations. Mobile population coverage and broadband availability are different measures from CDN serving locations.

Features

FeatureSupported
Web application firewallNot listed
Bot protectionNot listed
DDoS protectionNot listed
Rate limitingNot listed
HTTP/3 (QUIC)Not listed
TLS 1.3Not listed
Tiered cachingNot listed
Origin shieldNot listed
Instant cache purgeNot listed
Serve stale while refreshingNot listed
Serve stale on origin errorsNot listed
Image optimizationNot listed
On-demand video◐ Partial
Live video◐ Partial
Digital rights managementNot listed
HLS / DASH packagingNot listed
WebSocketsNot listed
Signed URLsNot listed
Edge computeNot listed
Edge functionsNot listed
Key-value storageNot listed
Configuration APINot listed
Real-time logsNot listed
Log exportNot listed
Terraform providerNot listed

✓ Supported · Partial: limited or separate-product support · ✗ Not supported · Not listed: unconfirmed. Some features need a separate product or plan.

  • Caching: Software-based caches can be deployed deeper in the access network to reduce repeated traffic across the core.
  • Workloads: BT reports trials serving live TV, on-demand video and gaming downloads. Test the delivery path with your own audience and workload before planning capacity.
  • Integration scope: Confirm the publisher relationship and service interfaces for the intended offering. Ask which protocols, configuration APIs and request-log interfaces your service provides.

Pricing

Current public delivery rates are unconfirmed. Ask which service you can buy, how publishers connect to it and what delivery costs before calculating an estimate.

Developer tools

The documented deployment involves Qwilt’s caching platform. BT-specific self-service CDN APIs, Terraform support and request-log interfaces are unconfirmed. Ask for the interfaces available with your service.

Qwilt’s public Knowledge Base provides partner documentation. Confirm which instructions apply to the operator service and account; it is not a complete operator-specific CDN API contract.

When it fits

  • Publishers investigating delivery to BT-network audiences through the applicable caching relationship.
  • Teams evaluating in-network cache deployment with BT and its delivery partners, rather than assuming retail broadband coverage defines a global CDN.

Before you choose

BT’s reported deployments sit inside its telecom network. For a new project, ask which publisher service you can join, what it costs and which configuration APIs it provides.
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