What is Akamai? Akamai Review, Features

Akamai is the world's largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, providing a fast, secure, scalable and reliable experience. It currently carries 15%-30% of the world's Internet web traffic.

About Akamai

• Akamai was founded in 1998 after inventing the CDN technology architecture. It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a CDN service provider. It was listed on NASDAQ in 1999. Its headquarters is located in Boston, USA.
• Akamai's huge network distribution capacity can reach 21Tbps at peak (2013). Akamai aims to eliminate Internet bottlenecks and improve Internet users' access experience, protect the speed of end users' access to websites and internal enterprise applications, and provide comprehensive cloud security services and acceleration of global high-definition streaming media.
• Currently, the company has deployed more than 150,000 servers worldwide, which are deployed in more than 2,500 nodes in more than 800 cities and more than 1,000 operators in more than 90 countries around the world.
• Akamai has more than 4,000 customers worldwide, and nearly 300 of the Fortune 500 companies trust Akamai.

Advantages

Akamai's intelligent edge platform is actually a cross-operator platform with global coverage capabilities, building a consistent and optimized edge network.

Corporate goals.

Optimize customer experience and be closer to customer needs.

Development History

-In 1997, Dr. Leighton and Mr. Lewin began exploring the commercial uses of CDN technology.

-In August 1998, Dr. Leighton and Mr. Lewin founded Akamai.

-In February 1999, it launched its first product for delivering real-time traffic information, the pixel buried deep under Disney.

- In March 1999, Akamai enabled the delivery of ESPN's "March Madness" event and "Entertainment Tonight's" "Star Wars" trailer.

-In April 1999, Akamai launched commercial services and announced Yahoo, one of the world's most visited websites, as its exclusive customer.

-In 2012, Akamai's revenue was $1.374 billion, accounting for more than half of the global CDN market.

-In 2013, Akamai delivered a total of 350 quintillion bytes worldwide and its servers received 593 trillion hits.