Akamai Technologies

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Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)

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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.

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Akamai GPU

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Akamai's Cloud GPU service offers on-demand access to NVIDIA GPUs, enabling businesses to accelerate AI training, inference, high-performance computing (HPC), rendering, and media workloads. With predictable pricing, low egress costs, and rapid provisioning, Akamai provides a scalable and cost-effective solution for compute-intensive tasks. Key Features and Functionality: - Dedicated GPU Performance: Ensures consistent throughput for AI and HPC workloads by allocating dedicated GPU resources. - Low, Predictable Egress Costs: Offers egress pricing as low as $0.005 per GB in most regions, resulting in up to 90% savings compared to typical hyperscalers. - On-Demand Billing: Provides flexible billing with no long-term contracts, allowing easy scaling up or down based on workload requirements. - Proximity Deployment: Deploys workloads close to users and data sources to reduce latency and enhance real-time experiences. - Diverse GPU Options: - NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition: Equipped with 96 GB GDDR7 memory, designed for high-throughput inference and agentic AI applications. - NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation: Balances price and performance for machine learning inference, analytics, and media processing, featuring built-in media engines supporting AV1 encoding and decoding. - NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000: With 6,144 CUDA cores and dual encode/decode engines, it's ideal for transcoding, rendering, and visualization tasks. - Comprehensive Platform Capabilities: - Compute and Orchestration: Offers dedicated GPU virtual machines and integration with Akamai Kubernetes Engine (LKE) for scalable deployments. - Storage and Data Management: Provides block and object storage solutions with automated backups and snapshots. - Networking and Security: Includes private networking, load balancing, and cloud firewall features to secure and optimize data flow. - Developer Tools and Support: Supports provisioning via user interface, API, CLI, and Terraform, with full documentation and 24/7/365 support. Primary Value and User Solutions: Akamai's Cloud GPU service addresses the need for high-performance, scalable, and cost-effective GPU resources. By offering dedicated GPU instances with low egress costs and flexible billing, it enables businesses to efficiently handle compute-intensive workloads such as AI model training, real-time inference, HPC simulations, and media processing. The proximity of deployment reduces latency, enhancing the performance of real-time applications and interactive experiences. Additionally, the diverse GPU options and comprehensive platform capabilities provide tailored solutions to meet various computational requirements, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency.

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Akamai Broadcast Operations Control Center

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Broadcast Operations Control Center (BOCC) is designed to maintain and improve the quality, reliability and availability of your media streams. It is a managed solution for customers looking to offload (or supplement) proactive monitoring, alerting, live support and mitigation for their OTT video streams to Akamai media experts

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02/18/2026
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Fast, Reliable Video Delivery with High Performance

High-Performance Delivery: Ensures fast and reliable content delivery, reducing buffering for both live and on-demand video.
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Volker S.
Subject Matter Expert EAI & API TechnologiesEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
02/02/2026
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The Akamai API security suite perfectly complements our already existing security systems.

runtime anomality detection, detectin of shadow and zombie APIs, detection of potential vulnerabilities already during API designtime
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12/16/2025
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A Simple, Cost-Effective Cloud Platform with Strong Deployment and Billing Control

What I like most about Akamai Cloud Computing is its ease of use combined with transparent, competitive pricing. The marketplace and StackScripts are especially valuable, as they make it simple to deploy a wide range of ready-to-use machines and applications with minimal setup time. This significantly speeds up deployments, reduces operational overhead, and allows me to focus more on building and scaling solutions rather than managing infrastructure.

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What is Akamai Technologies?

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.

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Year Founded
1998
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NASDAQ:AKAM
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www.akamai.com