--- header: Fastly's Legacy Media Shield lang: en last_updated: '2019-09-12' url: https://docs.fastly.com/products/fastlys-legacy-media-shield --- > **IMPORTANT:** These terms apply to Subscribers who purchased Media Shield on or before September 12, 2019. For more information about our current Media Shield product, contact . ![a visual representation of how Fastly's media shield reduces multiple CDN traffic to a single "shield" CDN that send a single request back to a customer's origin server](/img/guides/media-shield.png) Fastly Media Shield offers customers the ability to decrease origin traffic by [reducing multiple CDN requests](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/guides/concepts/edge-state/cache/request-collapsing/) into a single request back to your origin. Media Shield works with your existing architecture by making Fastly the origin to all of your end-user-serving CDNs. To learn more about Fastly's Media Shield, contact your account manager or email [sales@fastly.com](mailto:sales@fastly.com) for more details. > **IMPORTANT:** This information is part of a limited availability release. For additional details, read our [product and feature lifecycle](https://docs.fastly.com/products/fastly-product-lifecycle#limited-availability) descriptions.