---
title: "Qwilt Products and Features"
slug: "qwilt-products-and-features"
updated: 2025-01-26T16:17:35Z
published: 2025-01-26T16:17:35Z
canonical: "docs.qwilt.com/qwilt-products-and-features"
stale: true
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.qwilt.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Qwilt Content Delivery Network (CDN) - Products and Features

Qwilt’s CDN services - through our deep relationships with Internet Service providers (ISPs) - offer better performance, relieve content bottlenecks, and ensure that your content is delivered in the quality it was originally imagined.

## CDN Products

Qwilt's extensive presence across service provider networks are federated into a single global CDN with centralized and easy to use interfaces, enabling any content publisher to easily and cost effectively leverage the benefits of a global ISP-embedded edge delivery platform.

Qwilt has a longstanding relationship with the Streaming Video Technology Alliance (SVTA) to help develop Open Caching specifications that promote a healthy and collaborative ecosystem for all members, and Qwilt’s CDN products are built on the SVTA Open Caching specifications.

Qwilt offers the following CDN products:

- **[Media Delivery](/v1/docs/media-delivery)** - A carrier-grade solution for in-ISP network delivery of both live and on-demand streaming media.
- **Site Delivery** - Instant, global reach distribution and acceleration of websites with comprehensive CDN features, operational and administrative controls, and security.

## CDN Features

Both Media Delivery and Site Delivery products include a comprehensive set of CDN capabilities, described below.

### Qwilt Cloud Services

All Qwilt products, features, and services are accessed via a centralized control plane called Qwilt Cloud (QC) Services, which provides both a graphical user interface as well as comprehensive APIs for programmatic access to all global Qwilt services.

### Configuration Management

- Service provisioning
- [Site creation](/v1/docs/create-a-media-delivery-site)
- TLS Certificate Management
- Service configuration changes, version control, and publishing

### Cache Management

[Easily configurable rules](/v1/docs/define-a-rule) enabling publishers to maximize their use of the Qwilt CDN, including:

- Cache key management
- Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
- Header manipulation
- Origin failover
- Error handling
- Content compression at the edge
- HTTP status code manipulation
- Request path manipulation
- Debug headers
- Traffic type optimizations

### Security/Routing

Flexible security features that enable a uniform security configuration across all CDN services:

- HTTP request method control
- Force HTTPS
- Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- HTTP version
- Bring Your Own Certificate
- TLS configuration
- Cipher Management
- Origin authentication
- Routing Methods: DNS/HTTP

### Content Management

Various [purging capabilities](/v1/docs/overview), including:

- Purge by URL
- Purge by prefix
- Purge whole site

### Observability and Analytics

- Performance Monitoring
- Usage
- Billing
- Errors
- Raw Logs