Frost Radar™: Edge Distribution Platforms, 2026

Enterprises managing revenue-generating digital services face a structural tension at the core of the edge distribution platform (EDP) market: the architectures built to deliver static content are increasingly misaligned with the performance, security, and resilience demands of modern applications. Fragmented tooling across delivery, security, and compute creates governance complexity, inconsistent policy enforcement, and origin exposure that attackers actively exploit. Legacy technical debt compounds the problem, limiting the agility required to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, meet data residency requirements, and sustain service continuity under real-world traffic and threat conditions. EDPs are the infrastructure responsible for how digital content and application logic reach end users, encompassing content delivery, request-time compute, security enforcement, and—increasingly—AI inference execution. For technology buyers and the vendors competing for their spend, the performance, resilience, and security of this infrastructure are no longer purely operational concerns but competitive ones. The market response has centered on converging delivery, compute, and security in a single platform, redefining what enterprises should expect from infrastructure at this level. The EDP market is dynamic and intensely competitive, with Frost & Sullivan assessing more than 200 firms across the total addressable universe. The 16 companies selected for this Frost Radar™ stand out through their commitment to converging content delivery, programmable edge compute, and integrated security at scale, alongside demonstrated innovation investment and a visible global or multiregional customer base.

Frost & Sullivan analyzes numerous companies in an industry. Those selected for further analysis based on their leadership or other distinctions are benchmarked across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria to reveal their position on the Frost Radar™. The publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™ considering their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths. Show more