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Akamai(Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA, www.akamai.com) The largest content delivery network (CDN) with more than 30,000 servers around the world. Founded in 1998, Akamai licensed algorithms developed by MIT scientists to develop a high-performance network that could route traffic to the most expedient Web server depending on the source of the request and traffic conditions. Akamai, pronounced "ah-ka-my") is Hawaiian for intelligent, or "cool." How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Akamai Allows VideoEgg to Quickly Scale and Easily Add Customers,
Content and Capabilities
For example, during the initial week following the earthquake,
tests1 show that Web transactions handled by online businesses not
leveraging Akamai were either unavailable, or took as long as 1-2
minutes to complete. Akamai will provide LTG with a
highly-scalable and cost-effective platform to leverage for its
customers' electronic software distribution needs. |
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