11 Facts About Speedera Networks

Speedera Networks, founded in 1999, was a content delivery network company that emerged in the late 1990s to advance technology applications for Internet communications and collaboration and became the first CDN to turn a profit.

Provider of distributed application hosting and content delivery services, Speedera Networks was founded by Ajit Gupta, Rich Day, and Eric Swildens.

Speedera Networks enabled companies to offer bandwidth-intensive content, graphics, and streaming media over the Web.

Speedera Networks built its network to more than 100 points-of-presence within ata centers in 20 countries.

Speedera Networks's services included streaming media, content delivery, failover, load balancing, security, visibility and management services, all based on its Global Traffic Management platform and patented technology.

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Speedera Networks hosted some of the largest trafficked events on the Internet in its time including NASA's twin Mars Rover mission, and China's annual Spring Festival.

Speedera Networks created SpeedRank, an Internet Performance Index that compared performance and availability of the world's best and least performing web sites, which included download summaries, details and errors.

Speedera Networks launched a number of technology firsts in the Content Delivery Network market category including: Site Analyzer, Whole Site Delivery, Secure Streaming, Secure Flash, Failover, Traffic Balancer, Origin Site Integration, SpeedEye Access Manager, Smart Storage Manager and SinoCDN.

In March 2005, Speedera Networks was acquired by Akamai for a stock transaction worth about $130 million.

Speedera Networks was a privately held company funded by leading Silicon Valley companies, venture capitalists, a world-class university and others including:.

In 2003, CEO Ajit Gupta established a "Giving Back" philanthropy program for Speedera Networks that provided free Internet infrastructure services to not-for-profit organizations, including Unicef.