Atanar Technologies

What Atanar Technologies does

Atanar Technologies is a privately-held French IT services firm headquartered in Malakoff, a suburb of Paris. Founded in 2007 by CDN expert Damien Wetzel, the company operates as a distributor, integrator, and consultant for content delivery, web security, and DNS solutions. Its service portfolio spans CDN caching, Web Application Firewall and Anti-DDoS protection, intelligent DNS routing, CDN audits and front-end optimization, video streaming (live and VOD), and a proprietary sovereign cloud hosting environment built on open-source technologies.

The firm does not operate its own global CDN network; instead it resells and configures third-party platforms from a multi-vendor portfolio that includes Akamai, Fastly, CDNetworks, Imperva (Thales), and IBM NS1 for DNS routing. Its proprietary technology stack consists of a CDN cache-optimization visualization tool that analyzes log data to improve cache hit rates, and a sovereign cloud hosting environment developed over a four-year period (two years of testing, two years of production hardening with live clients). The company emphasizes multi-CDN routing to avoid vendor lock-in, French-language single-point-of-contact technical support, and the ability to negotiate preferential reseller rates on behalf of clients with high-volume traffic (tens of TBs monthly).

Commercially, Atanar generates revenue through a mix of subscription-based resale of CDN/WAF/DNS vendor services (with a markup), professional consulting and integration fees, and managed-services revenue from its sovereign cloud hosting offering. Its go-to-market is enterprise field sales, primarily via direct outreach and the company website, targeting French and European organizations with large-scale web properties. Named customers include the European Space Agency (since 2010), Le Monde Interactif (since 2011), Airbus (since 2014), ASO (Tour de France organizer), Philharmonie de Paris, Mediapart, and Editis.

Name

Atanar Technologies

Legal name

Atanar Technologies

Website

https://atanar.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Atanar Technologies is a French CDN, WAF, and DNS reseller and integrator serving high-traffic enterprise websites. It combines multi-vendor architecture (Akamai, Fastly, CDNetworks, Imperva, IBM NS1) with proprietary optimization tools and sovereign cloud hosting.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Content Delivery Network Services

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) (561621)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) & SSE (HDADABAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Edge Networking & SD-WAN Integration (SASE/SD-WAN Edge On-ramps) (HDABAGAJ)

Keywords

• CDN distribution
• Web performance optimization
• WAF protection
• DNS routing services
• Content delivery networks

Headquarters

HQ city

Malakoff

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. CDN/WAF/DNS Resale and Integration: As a distributor and integrator of CDN, WAF, and DNS solutions, Atanar Technologies resells services from major providers (Akamai, Fastly, CDNetworks, Imperva, NS1) combined with their technical expertise and support. Revenue is generated through markup on vendor services plus professional consulting fees.
2. Technical Consulting and Support: Technical consulting services including CDN audit, architecture design, implementation support, and ongoing technical support. The company provides single-point-of-contact French-language support.
3. Custom Hosting Services: Custom sovereign cloud hosting services built on open-source technologies for clients requiring specialized hosting solutions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Atanar Technologies is a French distributor, integrator, and consultant for Content Delivery Network (CDN), Web Application Firewall (WAF), and DNS solutions, reselling services from leading providers (Akamai, Fastly, CDNetworks, Imperva, IBM NS1). It augments these with proprietary CDN cache optimization software, Front-End Optimization audits, and a self-built sovereign cloud hosting environment for customers with high-volume (tens of TBs monthly) traffic and security needs.

Product overview

Atanar Technologies offers a unified portfolio of CDN/WAF and DNS solutions for content delivery acceleration and website protection. The core offerings include CDN Cache for content distribution, WAF/Anti-DDoS for security, and DNS Routing powered by IBM NS1. Additional services include CDN Audit for optimization, Video Streaming for live and VOD delivery, and custom Hosting built on open source technologies. The company serves as a distributor, integrator, and consultant connecting clients with major CDN providers (Fastly, Akamai, CDNetworks, Imperva) and offers multi-CDN configurations for resilience and performance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cache CDN CDN caching service that caches websites and subdomains for immediate display and scalability without sizing origin architecture, providing network DDoS protection — delivered as a distributed solution from leading providers such as Akamai, Fastly, and CDNetworks.
• WAF / Anti-DDoS Web Application Firewall and Anti-DDoS protection service that reliably secures websites from application-layer and volumetric attacks, distributed from Imperva (Thales Group) and integrated for enterprise clients.
• Routage DNS (DNS Routing) DNS routing solution built on IBM NS1 intelligent DNS technology, enabling multi-CDN routing based on real-time performance for optimal delivery performance, quality of service, and high availability.
• Audit CDN (incl. Front-End Optimization) Optimization service for existing CDN configurations, combining CDN log analysis, cache-hit-rate improvement, browser cache header tuning, CSS/JS/favicon loading optimization, page-weight reduction via gzip and image optimization, and Dynamic Content Optimization analysis.
• Streaming Vidéo (Video Streaming) High-performance live and Video-on-Demand streaming delivery service for clients requiring large-audience media distribution over the CDN infrastructure — used in deployments such as the European Space Agency's live video streaming.
• Hébergement / Stockage (Sovereign Cloud Hosting) Custom sovereign cloud hosting and storage service built with open-source technologies, designed to address common production-environment problems encountered in high-volume web deployments.
• CDN Configuration Optimization Tool Proprietary software that visually explores what is or isn't well cached on a customer's website to optimize CDN configuration and improve caching efficiency, by analyzing CDN logs and producing optimization recommendations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80% of end-user response time is spent on frontend after HTML generation, making FEO critical for performance
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Imperva (Thales Group)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2014Imperva (now part of Thales Group) provides WAF and security solutions. Atanar Technologies uses Imperva to protect client websites, specifically mentioning Airbus Group as a customer served through this partnership.
• FastlycoreTechnology or IntegrationFastly is a top-tier global CDN provider based on Varnish technology with real-time logs and flushes, integrated with Terraform. Atanar Technologies works with Fastly as a key CDN partner for delivering high-performance content globally.
• NS1 (IBM)coreTechnology or IntegrationNS1 is an intelligent DNS solution from IBM enabling multi-CDN routing based on real-time performance. Atanar Technologies offers NS1 as the preferred DNS routing solution for optimal delivery performance, quality of service, and high availability.
• CDNetworkscoreTechnology or IntegrationCDNetworks is the CDN provider used for content delivery in China, with excellent coverage across Asia. Atanar Technologies leverages CDNetworks to serve clients with China and Asia-Pacific content delivery requirements.
• AkamaicoreTechnology or IntegrationAkamai is one of the world's largest and most established CDN providers. Atanar Technologies distributes Akamai's CDN services as part of their multi-vendor approach to content delivery.
• CedexissupportingTechnology or IntegrationCedexis is mentioned as a solution for multi-CDN configuration and routing, particularly for origin server configurations in multi-CDN environments to maximize performance and resilience.
• Orange (AS3215)supportingTechnology or IntegrationOrange (France Telecom) is listed as a CDN provider for AS3215, which Atanar Technologies distributes as part of their CDN portfolio for specific network coverage needs.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• CDNetworks: CDNetworks is a global CDN with particularly strong Asia/China coverage and is a core partner of Atanar for Asia-Pacific content delivery. CDNetworks also sells direct to enterprise and carrier customers across EMEA, partially overlapping with Atanar's addressable market.
• Imperva (Thales): Imperva, now part of Thales, provides WAF and anti-DDoS solutions that Atanar resells and integrates (e.g., the Airbus relationship is delivered through Imperva). Imperva/Thales sells directly into the same French and European enterprise market, competing with Atanar's managed WAF service.
• Edgio: Edgio (the combined Limelight and Verizon Media Platform edge business) is a global CDN, WAF, and edge delivery provider with comparable multi-CDN and security positioning. Edgio sells direct to large media and enterprise customers that overlap with Atanar's media and event-driven customer base.
• Akamai Technologies: Akamai is Atanar's primary CDN partner and the global incumbent in content delivery and edge security (including through its Guardicore and Linode acquisitions). Akamai also sells direct to the same European enterprise and public-sector buyers Atanar serves, making the relationship both partnership and competitive.
• Gcore: Gcore is a Luxembourg-based CDN, edge cloud, and security provider with a similar multi-CDN and sovereign European positioning to Atanar. It targets the same French and European enterprise and public-sector buyers and bundles CDN, WAF, DDoS, and hosting in a directly comparable offering.
• Fastly: Fastly is a top-tier global CDN and edge compute platform and a core technology partner of Atanar. Fastly's Compute@Edge, WAF, and DDoS products overlap directly with Atanar's CDN, WAF/Anti-DDoS, and DNS routing services, and Fastly increasingly pursues enterprise direct sales in EMEA.
• Cloudflare: Cloudflare sells CDN, WAF/Anti-DDoS, and intelligent DNS (and increasingly zero-trust/SSE) directly to enterprises and competes head-to-head with Atanar's integrated offering. Atanar's value proposition — multi-vendor integration, sovereign cloud, French-language support — is essentially a curated alternative to going direct to Cloudflare.

Regional players

• OVHcloud: OVHcloud is a French/European hyperscale cloud and hosting provider with its own CDN, DDoS protection, and DNS services. It is a natural regional alternative to Atanar's sovereign cloud + CDN bundle for French SMB and mid-market customers that want a single French provider.

Broad incumbents

• F5: F5 (including the NGINX and Distributed Cloud portfolio) is a broad incumbent in application delivery, WAF, and API security. While F5 operates at a much larger scale and broader portfolio than Atanar, it competes for the same enterprise web application security and DNS-layer spend.

Emerging players

• StackPath: StackPath offers CDN, edge compute, and security services aimed at media, gaming, and SaaS customers — a use-case footprint close to Atanar's high-traffic website segment. It is a smaller, focused competitor in the same niche of edge delivery and WAF.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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