Qwilt hits edge cloud milestone with 2,000+ nodes worldwide

Demonstrating its leadership in edge cloud that delivers proximity, speed and scale for edge compute and delivery, Qwilt has announced that it is now deploying 2,196 edge nodes across 38 countries on six continents.

Today, Qwilt partners with major service, content and application providers worldwide, including Airtel, BT, Comcast, Telefonica, Verizon, and Vodafone, demonstrating its strategic alignment with the future of the service provider edge. Its highly distributed architecture now forms the world’s largest true edge cloud, embedded directly within service provider access networks.

Alon Maor, CEO, Qwilt, said, “Through our Open Edge framework, we’ve unlocked access to the last mile of the network, igniting a global edge ecosystem capable of ultra-low latency compute and application delivery.

“Exceeding 2,000 edge nodes proves both the growing demand for hyper-local edge compute and the power of our platform to scale globally. Most importantly, this massive global infrastructure is now accessible through a single, programmatic API, making it easier than ever to build and deliver next-generation applications at the true edge.”

While traditional platforms often stop at metro data centres or Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), Qwilt embeds compute and caching directly within last-mile networks. This, says Qwilt, gives service providers and content publishers a radically more efficient, scalable, and performant alternative to legacy delivery and centralised cloud models.

Explaining why Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud is growing eight times faster than traditional platforms, Maor added, “First, our deep partnership model puts edge nodes and origin servers directly into service provider access networks — already enabling over 150 Tbps of last-mile capacity. 

“Second, we’ve made this massive global edge accessible via a single, standards-based API. That’s a game-changer for service providers and developers building the next wave of real-time applications.”