Ekino, a FullSIX Group company, boosts the efficiency

Case Study
At a glance
Company: Ekino, a FullSIX Group
company
Headquarters: France
Industry: Communications
Website: www.groupe.fullsix.fr
Services provided by CDNetworks:
Content acceleration
Key results
Enhanced performance of websites
handling large data volumes
Ekino, a FullSIX Group company, boosts the efficiency of its
global communications thanks to CDNetworks
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“CDNetworks provides the ideal mix of robust performance, reasonable
cost, useful reporting, and high-quality service for web applications with
large data volumes.”
— Axel Pavageau, Head of the IT Systems, Networks & Hosting
Department at Ekino, a FullSIX Group company
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FullSIX is a group of communication agencies created to help businesses adapt their
operations to the digital age. The group has been at the forefront of innovation for
over 15 years, leveraging new technology to drive growth in France and across Europe.
Ekino is the group’s technology subsidiary; its 250 employees in France and Poland
develop leading-edge systems for web applications. The company mainly provides
system development, data analysis, and hosting services. Its customers include major
French multinationals—including a French car maker with global operations. Ekino, a
FullSIX Group company, hosts websites for this customer that must meet demanding
technical specifications, such as fast page load times for users anywhere in the world.
Savings on bandwidth
Savings on IT infrastructure to exceed
the 1 GB mark
Custom-configured CDN services
Figure 1. http://www.group.fullsix.com/en/who-we-are.aspx
The challenge
Some of Ekino’s customers have websites with large amounts of content, or have
servers that are located far from where users connect to their websites. To serve these
customers effectively, Ekino, a FullSIX Group company, relies on CDNetworks’ content
acceleration technology. CDNetworks’ technology can not only speed display times for
web applications, but also reduce the amount of data that must be transferred from
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the original servers. As a result, customers save money on their internet service
provider (ISP) costs and get greater capacity.
For example, the large French car maker had a website that needed to be easily
accessible from far-off countries like Brazil and Russia. Thanks to CDNetworks’
numerous sites around the world, the website’s content could be quickly and reliably
displayed to users in those countries—for a seamless user experience.
A long-standing collaboration
CDNetworks has been serving Ekino, a FullSIX Group company, since 2008, initially
through Panther Express which was subsequently acquired by CDNetworks. Even
today, the collaboration between the two technology businesses is still going strong
with tangible benefits for Ekino’s customers.
A high-performance, cost-effective solution
Thanks to CDNetworks’ global presence, Ekino, a FullSIX Group company, can deliver
the web performance that its customers need anywhere in the world, with fast load
times for their web pages and applications—regardless of the volume of content to be
displayed. And all that comes with substantial cost savings:
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Bandwidth through CDNetworks is significantly cheaper than the individual
rate that Ekino, FullSIX Group company, previously paid;
By going through CDNetworks, Ekino, a FullSIX Group company, can transfer
more than a Gigabit of data without needing to purchase additional IT
infrastructure.
Figure 2. Total traffic of transferred data has been slashed by 80%
“CDNetworks provides the ideal mix of robust performance, reasonable cost, useful
reporting, and high-quality service for web applications with large data volumes,” said
Axel Pavageau, Head of the IT Systems, Networks & Hosting Department at Ekino, a
FullSIX Group company.
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The staff at Ekino, a FullSIX Group company, especially appreciate being able to
configure some of CDNetworks’ services themselves through CDNetworks’ web portal.
That means they can customize the configuration to support responsive design, for
example—an essential tool for ensuring the same high-quality content display on
computers, smartphones, and tablets.
“Not all CDNs allow for customized configuration, which is one of CDNetworks’ clear
strengths,” Axel said.
About Ekino
Ekino—FullSIX Group’s digital technology and business agency—has been a pioneer in
actionable innovation for over ten years. With 200+ engineers, the agency boasts a
strong business culture and leverages high-level talent to make the digital
transformation a reality. Learn more at: www.ekino.com
About FullSIX Group
FullSIX Group is a leading independent European group of communication and
marketing consultancies. Founded in 1998, the group operates twenty agencies in
eleven countries on four continents, employing about a thousand people. FullSIX places
digital and data at the heart of its customers’ performance, for all advertisers' needs:
analytics, data & insights (FullSIX Data); branding and advertising (FullSIX Advertising);
strategy and media buying (FullSIX Media, FullSIX Search); relationship, digital and ecommerce (FullSIX); and traffic generation, in-store experience, and ROPO (FullSIX
Retail). FullSIX Group helps customers dramatically increase their performance by using
a digital- and data-centric strategy to systematically synchronize communications with
their customers. Learn more at: http://www.group.fullsix.com/
About CDNetworks
CDNetworks permet une accélération globale sur le Cloud. Notre mission consiste à faire
de l’Internet un réseau de diffusion d’applications à la fois sécurisé, fiable, évolutif et
extrêmement performant. En tant que seul CDN au monde à disposer d’une expertise et
d’une infrastructure en Chine, en Russie et dans d’autres marchés émergents,
CDNetworks jouit de la confiance de ses partenaires sur les marchés locaux, et applique
son expertise à faciliter leur extension vers les marchés mondiaux. En accélérant son
infrastructure mondiale comptant plus de 40 000 sites Internet et services en nuage
grâce à ses 140 points de présence (PoP), CDNetworks se met au service de sa clientèle
e-business dans tous les secteurs, en particulier la finance, le voyage, l’e-commerce,
l’apprentissage en ligne, les hautes technologies, la production manufacturière et les
médias. Au service de sa clientèle d’entreprises depuis plus de 13 ans, CDNetworks
dispose de bureaux aux États-Unis, en Corée, en Chine, au Japon et au Royaume-Uni.
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