Identify the geographic location and network characteristics of your users.
EdgeScape Standard provides an IP-based business intelligence within your infrastructure by running Akamai software, including a DB, a facilitator that handles DB auto-updates, and an API interface. This software allows your origin to quickly lookup geolocation, network, and security information from connected client IPs (including georegion, country_code, region_code, city, Designated Marketing Area, Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area, area code, county, fips, latitude, longitude, time zone, zip, continent, throughput, and AS number) in order to enhance your business logic. EdgeScape's content targeting capability allows you to apply business and geolocation rules to specific end users by using a subset of information to run logic at the Edge, or forwarding that information to the origin using an HTTP header.
Benefits
- Ability to apply download policies required in specific countries.
- Ability to provide different types of user experiences dynamically based on user's geolocation (ie. provide a localized version of a website for people in a given country like www.example.es for people in Spain or www.example.fr for people in France).
- Ability to provide different types of user experiences dynamically based on user's network connection (ie. cellular/non-cellular, low/high bandwidth, etc.).
- Pre-populate online forms with information relevant to end users (ie. list of phone area codes, ZIP codes, city, state, etc. based on the IP geolocation of the end user.
The business metrics that can be queried from a given IP address described in the tables below:
Example
X-Akamai-Edgescape: georegion=263,country_code=US,region_code=MA,city=CAMBRIDGE,dma=506,pmsa=1120,areacode=617,county=MIDDLESEX,fips=25017,lat=42.3933,long=-71.1333,timezone=EST,zip=02138-02142+02238-02239,continent=NA,throughput=vhigh,asnum=21399
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| Attribute = type | |
Geography |
Description |
| continent = string | The continent value is a two-letter code for the continent that the IP address maps to. |
| country_code = string | The country_code value is an ISO-3166, two-letter code for the country where the IP address maps to. |
| region_code = string | The region_code value is an ISO-3166, two-letter code for the state, province, or region where the IP address maps to. |
| *city = string | The city value is the city (within a 50-mile radius) that the IP address maps to. |
| *dma = string | The dma value is a number representing the DMA® that the IP address maps to. DMA® is a registered service mark of The Nielsen Company, all rights reserved. |
| *msa = string | The msa value is a number representing the Metropolitan Statistical Area that the IP address maps to. |
| *pmsa = string | The pmsa value is a number representing the Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area that the IP address maps to. |
| *areacode = string | The areacode value is the area code that the IP address maps to (multiple values possible). |
| *lat = string | The lat value is the latitude that the IP address maps to. |
| *long = string | The long value is the longitude that the IP address maps to. |
| *county = string | The county value is the county that the IP address maps to (multiple values possible). |
| *timezone = string | The timezone value is the time zone that the IP address maps to. |
| *zip = string | The zipcode value is the zipcode that the IP address maps to (multiple values possible). |
| network = string | The network value will be the network that the IP address belongs to (selected networks only -add link to list-) |
| network_type = string | The network type value will be the connection type that the IP address belongs to. |
| asnum = string | The asnum value will be the AS number or numbers that the IP belongs to (multiple values possible). |
| **throughput = string | The throughput is the actual connection speed that the IP address maps to. Note: This attribute will always be set to low for IPv6 addresses. |
| **bw = integer | Provides additional granularity to the ‘throughput’ field.
Note: This attribute will always be set to 1 for IPv6 addresses. |
| *proxy = string | This attribute indicates whether the IP is a proxy and what type of proxy it is (transparent or anonymous). |
| *company = string | The company value will be the company that the IP address belongs to. |
| *domain = string | The domain value will be the domain that the IP address belongs to. |
| tunnel = string | This attribute will only be available when querying for IPv6 addresses, and will indicate if the ip is a Teredo or 6to4 address. The possible values are “teredo” or “6to4”. |
*Only available in EdgeScape Pro
**The throughput and .bw fields will have values of “low” and “1” for all IPv6 addresses
EdgeScape Capabilities
Field name |
Description |
EdgeScape Standard |
EdgeScape Pro |
Content Targetting (with EdgeScape Pro) |
| areacode | The area code value is the area code that the IP address maps to (multiple values possible) | √ | √ | |
| asnum | Autonomous System number | √ | √ | √ |
| bw | Provides additional granularity to the ‘throughput’ field (value=1 for IPv6) | √ | √ | |
| city | The city value is the city (within a 50-mile radius) that the IP address maps to. | √ | √ | |
| continent | The continent value is a two-letter code for the continent that the IP address maps to. | √ | √ | √ |
| country_code | The country_code value is an ISO-3166, two-letter code for the country where the IP address maps to | √ | √ | √ |
| county | The county value is the county that the IP address maps to (USA only, multiple values possible) | √ | √ | |
| dma | Marketing Area. The dma value is a number representing the DMA that the IP address maps to. DMA is a registered service mark of The Nielsen Company, all rights reserved. | √ | √ | |
| fips | County numerical value (USA only) | √ | ||
| georegion | Geographical Region | √ | ||
| lat | The latitude that the IP address maps to (aproximated value) | √ | √ | |
| long | The longitude that the IP address maps to (aproximated value) | √ | √ | |
| msa | Number representing the Metropolitan Statistical Area that the IP address maps to. | √ | √ | |
| network | The name of the network/ISP that owns the IP address, including wireless carriers. Select networks only. | √ | √ | √ |
| network_type | The connection type seen in the end user’s request (e.g., dialup, cable, dsl, mobile) | √ | √ | √ |
| pmsa | Number representing the Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area that the IP address maps to. | √ | √ | |
| proxy | This attribute indicates whether the IP is a proxy and what type of proxy it is (transparent or anonymous). | √ | ||
| region_code | The region_code value is an ISO-3166, two-letter code for the state, province, or region where the IP address maps to (selected countries only) | √ | √ | √ |
| throughput | Actual Connection Speed the IP address maps to (value=low for IPv6) | √ | √ | |
| timezone | The timezone value is the time zone that the IP address maps to | √ | √ | |
| zip | The zipcode value is the zipcode that the IP address maps to (US and Canada only, multiple values possible) | √ | √ | |
| Device Type | √ | |||
| company | Company Name | √ | ||
| domain | Domain Name | √ | ||
| Distributed Sender Blackhole List | custom | custom | ||
| tunnel | This attribute will indicate if the ip is a Teredo or 6to4 address (IPv6 only) | √ |