Overview
Singtel provides telecommunications and digital infrastructure. Its Digital InfraCo unit combines connectivity, data centers and orchestration rather than a single uniform CDN product.
- Paragon coordinates network, edge and cloud workloads.
- Nxera provides data-center infrastructure.
- Submarine and satellite services provide connectivity.
Ask which product or partner supplies caching and security, and who supports the delivery contract. Singtel announced an Akamai alliance in October 2016. Ask the service team about the current delivery offer.
Singapore Telecommunications Limited was incorporated in 1992, with predecessor heritage dating to 1879. It is headquartered in Singapore and listed on SGX as Z74. Those corporate dates are not the launch date of a CDN.
Network
Delivery coverage
Ask for cache locations and delivery measurements for the selected service. Telecom interconnection points, submarine connectivity and Nxera data centers are not interchangeable with HTTP cache nodes.
Workload placement
Paragon coordinates edge and cloud infrastructure. Available locations, residency and network quality depend on the chosen deployment. Ask the selected delivery supplier for its current serving locations.
Features
| Feature | Supported |
|---|---|
| Web application firewall | Not listed |
| Bot protection | Not listed |
| DDoS protection | Not listed |
| Rate limiting | Not listed |
| HTTP/3 (QUIC) | Not listed |
| TLS 1.3 | Not listed |
| Tiered caching | Not listed |
| Origin shield | Not listed |
| Instant cache purge | Not listed |
| Serve stale while refreshing | Not listed |
| Serve stale on origin errors | Not listed |
| Image optimization | Not listed |
| On-demand video | Not listed |
| Live video | Not listed |
| Digital rights management | Not listed |
| HLS / DASH packaging | Not listed |
| WebSockets | Not listed |
| Signed URLs | Not listed |
| Edge compute | ◐ Partial |
| Edge functions | Not listed |
| Key-value storage | Not listed |
| Configuration API | ◐ Partial |
| Real-time logs | Not listed |
| Log export | Not listed |
| Terraform provider | Not listed |
✓ Supported · Partial: limited or separate-product support · ✗ Not supported · Not listed: unconfirmed. Some features need a separate product or plan.
Paragon
Paragon offers network slicing, edge-application deployment and cloud orchestration. Its API library supports platform integration. For CDN configuration, ask for the API of the actual delivery service.
Content delivery
Confirm protocol support, purge timing, raw-log access and security options for the actual delivery service. Ask how quickly purges complete and which raw-log export options are available. A feature offered elsewhere in the group may not be included in your account.
Pricing
Request current rates for the delivery service your project will use. Request a product-specific quote and use the calculator with those USD delivery rates.
- Separate transfer, requests and minimum commitment.
- Add orchestration, compute, connectivity and security charges separately.
- Confirm regions, currency, support and contract length.
Paragon’s usage-based positioning alone does not provide enough units or rates for an automatic CDN estimate.
Developer tools
Use Paragon integration facilities for orchestration projects. Obtain the relevant technical documentation, credentials, API limits and deployment regions from the service team.
For a CDN contract, ask separately for cache configuration, log export and purge APIs. Ask which CDN APIs, SDKs and Terraform resources your delivery service supports. The Digital InfraCo overview is a product description rather than technical documentation.
When it fits
- Enterprises combining regional connectivity with edge/cloud workloads.
- Teams evaluating Paragon orchestration alongside a specified content-delivery service.
- Buyers able to obtain and compare an enterprise contract with clear product boundaries.
Before you choose
Sources
- www.singtel.com
- www.singtel.com/business/products-services/5g/paragon
- www.singtel.com/content/dam/singtel/investorRelations/fixed-income/2019/singtel-group-treasury-pte-ltd.pdf
- www.singtel.com/about-us/investor-relations/share-information
- www.singtel.com/digital-infraco
- www.singtel.com/about-us/media-centre/news-releases/singtel-and-akamai-strengthen-aliance-to-bost-web-security-capabilities-
- aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
- cloud.google.com/storage/pricing
