Key Topics

One CDN Outage Is All It Takes

Gaming platforms operate under zero tolerance for downtime.

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A live match. A tournament final. A peak traffic moment. These are the exact windows when your infrastructure gets tested.

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Most gaming platforms today run 100% of their traffic through a single CDN. It works. Until it doesn't.

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When your CDN goes down, every platform with no backup goes dark. Not for minutes. For the full duration of the outage. Revenue stops. Players leave. Trust erodes.

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IO River prevents that from happening.

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IO River runs your traffic across multiple CDN providers simultaneously in an Active/Active architecture. There is no primary and no backup. Every provider is live, every request is steered to the best-performing path in real time. When one provider degrades or goes offline, traffic shifts automatically to the others. No manual intervention. No visible impact to the player. Your platform stays up.

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The industry knows the risk is real. More gaming operators and iGaming platforms are now actively looking to replace their single CDN or build a live redundancy layer that eliminates the single point of failure.

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IO River is that layer.

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What We Solve

At iGB L!VE London, the IO River team will meet with gaming operators, studios, and iGaming platforms to show how the industry can move beyond single-CDN dependency.

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Gaming platforms need infrastructure that stays live no matter what. IO River's Multi-CDN platform routes traffic dynamically across multiple edge providers in real time. When one provider degrades or goes down, traffic moves automatically. No manual intervention. No visible impact to the player.

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Your platform stays live even when your CDN goes down, with no manual failover and no player impact
You gain an active backup architecture without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining it yourself
Traffic is steered in real time based on live performance signals, so degradation never reaches the player
You reduce delivery costs without trading off resilience or regional coverage
IO River operates on a regional level, detecting downtime, degradation, and performance issues per region and automatically steering traffic to the best-performing CDN in that region

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IO River - Continuous Uptime for Live Games and Events

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What IO River delivers:

Active/Active architecture across multiple CDN providers: no single point of failure
Automatic failover: zero-downtime switching when any provider degrades or goes offline
Centralized management of hundreds of TLS certificates across all CDN providers from a single interface
Built-in geo-blocking support, giving gaming operators the tools to meet regional compliance requirements without touching each CDN separately
Advanced configurations across multiple CDNs managed from one place, so your team spends less time context-switching between vendor dashboards
99.999% availability guaranteed

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Who Is at Risk

Any gaming platform running 100% of its traffic through a single provider is one outage away from going dark.

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This is not a theoretical risk. It has happened. It will happen again.

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The platforms that stay live during industry-wide disruptions are the ones that built redundancy before they needed it.

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IO River for Gaming

IO River gives gaming platforms the Multi-CDN infrastructure they could not realistically build themselves.

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Unified control across multiple edge providers. Real-time steering based on live performance signals. Consistent player experience across every region, even under peak demand.

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Learn more: IO River for Gaming

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