Local delivery was reserved for the largest platforms
The large platforms localized their own content years ago with embedded cache programs: they ship their own appliances into networks, and their traffic stays close to the people requesting it. Everyone else, broadcasters, news organizations, software publishers, and public institutions, has no practical way to do the same without building and operating a CDN of their own. OpenCache closes that gap with one neutral, shared cache layer that any content provider can use and any ISP can host.
One shared cache layer, operated end to end
Identical nodes, central control
Identical cache nodes carry the data plane at internet exchanges and inside ISP networks. A central control plane, operated by P Foundation, holds configuration, traffic policies, telemetry, and observability for every node.
Network-aware nodes
Each node holds a BGP session with its host network and works out which prefixes are genuinely local, so it serves the host ISP's subscribers or the networks peering at the exchange. Health-aware steering shifts traffic away from a draining or saturated node before users notice.
Always-on behaviors
Request collapsing sends one request to the origin when a popular object expires instead of thousands. Stale serving keeps responses flowing while a node revalidates or an origin errors. Origins fail over with health-aware retries, and every response carries diagnostic headers.
Neutrality by architecture
Hosting a node grants no control over it. TLS terminates inside the foundation-operated node, and the same policies are enforced across the whole fleet, so a host network cannot alter or degrade the content its node serves.
Open to providers and the networks that host them
Any content provider
Broadcasters, news organizations, software publishers, and public institutions can apply and start serving. There is no requirement to operate your own CDN: you keep your origin and your authority over your content, and OpenCache localizes the delivery.
Any ISP that wants a local node
The ISP provides rack space, power, an uplink, and a BGP session. The foundation provides and remotely operates the node: deployment, configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle are all handled centrally.
Apply for OpenCache
Apply as a content provider or request a local node for your network, and we will take it from there.
Apply for OpenCache