20 Facts About Akamai

Akamai Technologies, Inc is an American content delivery network, cybersecurity, and cloud service company, providing web and Internet security services.

Akamai operates a network of servers worldwide and rents capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster by distributing content from locations near the user.

Akamai's mapping system assigns each user to a proximal edge server using sophisticated algorithms such as stable matching and consistent hashing, enabling more reliable and faster web downloads.

Akamai Technologies entered the 1998 MIT $50K competition with a business proposition based on their research on consistent hashing, and were selected as one of the finalists.

Akamai re-established the role of chief technology officer and that Robert Blumofe would serve in that role.

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Akamai started in Technology Square and later expanded to multiple buildings in Cambridge Center.

Akamai Intelligent Platform is a distributed cloud computing platform that operates worldwide.

Each Akamai server is equipped with proprietary software that uses complex algorithms to process requests from nearby users, then serve the requested content.

Akamai delivers web content over its Intelligent Platform by transparently mirroring elements such as HTML, CSS, software downloads, and media objects from customers' servers.

The Akamai server is automatically chosen depending on the type of content and the user's network location.

State of the Internet report is a quarterly report Akamai releases based on data gathered from its Intelligent Platform, which provides global Internet statistics such as connection speed, broadband adoption, attack traffic, network connectivity, and mobile connectivity.

Akamai offers the Internet Visualization application, which allows users to view real-time data on their mobile device.

Akamai Technologies owns about 60 other domains, but the primary domains it uses include:.

In September 1999, Microsoft and Akamai formed a strategic relationship to incorporate Windows Media technology in Akamai's FreeFlow service, as well as to facilitate the porting of the FreeFlow product to the Windows platform; this relationship exists to this day.

In June 2008, The NewsMarket teamed with Akamai to accelerate dynamic content and applications to global media ahead of the Beijing Olympics.

Akamai provided streaming services to ESPN Star during the course of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.

One of Akamai's patents covers delivering electronic data using a CDN.

Internet Web site proprietors contract with Akamai to deliver their Web sites' content to individual Internet users.

Under the interpretation of patent law, when Akamai decided to sue Limelight for patent infringement, a method patent could be infringed upon only when a single actor performed all the steps.

Akamai initially lost the case, even taking it to the Supreme Court.