If you’re a scientist or engineer, you’re probably familiar with NI — the world’s premier vendor of automated testing and measurement tools. The company’s lineup of software and modular hardware is used for everything from circuit design to biomedical research. With so many customers that work in mission-critical environments, NI needs an online presence that instills trust and confidence.
NI is no stranger to complexity, but one of its chief difficulties stemmed from a relatively straightforward task: file downloads.
As with many modern software distributors, NI gives customers a way to download applications directly from its website, with predictably large file sizes. But few cache operators can properly handle downloads this large, and the vendor NI had been using was regularly aging out these files from its cache.
结果,NI 的许多下载流量被路由到其位于德克萨斯州奥斯汀市、为全球客户提供服务的源站,结果并不理想。关于下载速度过慢的报告涌入 NI 的客服部门。即使是位于公司区域办事处的员工也留意到速度下降。
是时候寻找其他解决方案了。
As a global company with over a billion dollars in annual revenue, switching CDN providers isn’t something NI took lightly. NI’s infrastructure team deployed monitoring points around the globe to benchmark five competitive services, with special attention given to their ability to handle large file sizes. After a rigorous process — spanning everything from customer support to performance to price — Cloudflare came out on top.
• NI struggled to deliver large file downloads to its customers, despite having a CDN.
•通过迁移到 Cloudflare,NI 得以提高下载速度(包括在中国)。
•使用 Cloudflare Workers,NI 得以自定义设置并快速迭代新的改进。
•Argo Smart Routing 进一步提高了 NI 的性 能。
“在我们的测试中,Cloudflare 提供了最快的全球性能,并与我们共同努力,确保我们的大文件能够尽快传输。”
Robert Cope
Infrastructure Architect, NI