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Akamai's Content Delivery Network (CDN) solutions are designed to enhance the speed, reliability, and security of digital content delivery across the globe. By leveraging Akamai's extensive network of servers, businesses can ensure that their websites, applications, and media content are delivered swiftly and efficiently to users, regardless of their location. Key Features and Functionality: - App & API Performance: Akamai offers solutions like API Acceleration to improve the performance and reliability of APIs at scale, and Ion to deliver enhanced user experiences for websites dynamically and efficiently. - Media Delivery: Services such as Adaptive Media Delivery ensure consistent, high-quality online video streaming at massive scale, while Download Delivery provides flawless distribution of large files globally. - Edge Applications: Tools like EdgeWorkers enable developers to deploy custom code at the edge, closer to users, enhancing performance and reducing latency. - Security: Akamai integrates robust security measures, including web application firewalls and DDoS mitigation, to protect content and applications from evolving threats. Primary Value and User Solutions: Akamai's CDN solutions address critical challenges faced by businesses in delivering digital content. By distributing content across a vast network of edge servers, Akamai reduces latency, minimizes the risk of downtime, and ensures a seamless user experience. This is particularly vital for industries like media and entertainment, gaming, and e-commerce, where user engagement and satisfaction are directly tied to content delivery performance. Additionally, Akamai's integrated security features safeguard against cyber threats, providing businesses with a comprehensive solution for content delivery and protection.

Enterprise Application Access is a unique cloud architecture that closes all inbound firewall ports, while ensuring that only authorized users and devices have access to the internal applications they need, and not the entire network. No one can access applications directly because they are hidden from the Internet and public exposure. Enterprise Application Access integrates data path protection, single sign-on, identity access, application security, and management visibility and control into a single service.

Akamai Site Shield is a security solution designed to protect web applications by concealing origin servers from direct internet access. By routing all incoming traffic through Akamai's globally distributed network, Site Shield ensures that only legitimate requests reach the origin, effectively mitigating threats such as Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks and other malicious activities. Key Features and Functionality: - Origin Cloaking: Removes web applications from publicly accessible IP address space, preventing attackers from targeting the origin directly. - Traffic Routing: Ensures all client requests are directed through Akamai's Content Delivery Network , allowing for inspection and mitigation of potential threats before they reach the origin. - Stable CIDR Blocks: Utilizes a defined set of IP subnet ranges to route traffic, reducing the operational overhead associated with frequent firewall ACL updates. - Integration with Akamai Security Solutions: Works seamlessly with other Akamai cloud security technologies, such as Kona Site Defender, to provide a comprehensive defense strategy. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Site Shield enhances the security posture of organizations by preventing attackers from bypassing cloud-based defenses and directly targeting application origin servers. By cloaking the origin infrastructure and consolidating connections through Akamai's network, it reduces the risk of DDoS attacks and other malicious activities, ensuring uninterrupted service availability and improved performance for end-users.

We remove the complexities of technology so you can focus on driving your business faster forward enabling you to embrace trends like cloud, mobile and media, while overcoming the challenges presented by security threats and the need to reach users globally.

Automated acceleration to deliver the best website and mobile app experiences imaginable

CloudTest provides a comprehensive performance platform for quickly validating and optimizing web and mobile user experience.

Akamai's Aura Licensed Content Delivery Network (LCDN) is a comprehensive software solution that enables network operators and content providers to establish and manage their own high-performance content delivery networks. This platform is designed to deliver high-quality, low-latency viewing experiences for both live and on-demand video content, while also offering opportunities for revenue generation and operational cost reduction. Key Features and Functionality: - Multiformat Video Delivery: Supports the delivery of video in multiple formats, including unicast and multicast-assisted adaptive bitrate (M-ABR) streaming, ensuring compatibility across various devices and platforms. - Efficient Content Delivery: Utilizes a common HTTP caching infrastructure to efficiently deliver both proprietary and third-party content, enhancing viewer experience and reducing latency. - Flexible Deployment: Operates on commercial off-the-shelf hardware or within virtualized environments, allowing operators to allocate delivery resources dynamically based on demand. - Global Reach: Interconnects with the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, providing operators with the capability to extend their content delivery beyond their own network footprint through a single business agreement. - Enhanced Network Efficiency: Offers the option to configure a combination of unicast and multicast-assisted channels, improving overall network efficiency, quality, and reliability. Primary Value and User Solutions: Aura LCDN addresses the growing demand for high-quality video content by enabling network operators and content providers to: - Enhance Viewer Experience: Deliver consistent, high-quality video content with low latency, meeting subscriber expectations and increasing customer satisfaction. - Generate New Revenue Streams: Offer premium subscription content across multiple devices and create additional revenue opportunities by upgrading subscribers to higher-tier packages and bundles. - Optimize Network Resources: Reduce infrastructure costs by eliminating the need for expensive proprietary hardware and implementing reliable video delivery capabilities through a virtualized infrastructure. - Expand Content Reach: Leverage the integration with Akamai's global platform to extend content delivery beyond the operator's own network, reaching a wider audience without additional complexity. By implementing Aura LCDN, operators can effectively manage the increasing demand for video content, enhance service quality, and create new business opportunities in a competitive digital landscape.

Image Manager introduces a simple way to automate your image creation workflow and intelligently optimize and deliver the best image every time. Lighter pages, simplified operations, and less derivative images helps you drive higher revenue and engagement, reduce costs, and gain an advantage in mobile and responsive web design strategies. Improve customer experiences by automatically optimizing web images for both maximum visual quality and performance while reducing the cost and effort to transform images for faster time to market.



At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every day, billions of people around the world connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play the latest video games, log into mobile banking apps, learn remotely, share videos with friends, and so much more. They may not know it, but Akamai is there, powering and protecting life online. Over 0 years ago, we set out to solve the toughest challenge of the early internet: the “World Wide Wait.” And we’ve been solving the internet’s toughest challenges ever since, working toward our vision of a safer and more connected world.With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences.Our leading security, compute, and delivery solutions are helping global companies make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation.