Akamai invented the edge 22 years ago. The edge is where users connect, where clouds, devices, and immense streams of data come together.

Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realise competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power of their multi-cloud world. The Akamai globally distributed intelligent edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the cloud, so customers and their businesses can be fast, smart, and secure. Akamai keeps decisions, apps, and experiences closer to users than anyone — and attacks and threats far away. Akamai’s portfolio of edge security, web and mobile performance, and OTT solutions is supported by unmatched customer service and 24/7/365 monitoring.

At Akamai, we see a world of unimagined potential, all enabled through the unique power of the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform.

Akamai is recognised for its market reach, capabilities and innovation, and historically in the areas of web performance, media delivery, cloud security and network operations across its highly distributed global CDN infrastructure of over 250,000 servers worldwide. With points of presence (POPs) in every major city and region in the world where people populate. However Akamai even have network at the North and South poles !

Akamai provides its content delivery services to a vast number of global enterprises and has comprehensive solutions and services offerings for web performance, media delivery, cloud security, and network operator solutions.

Akamai is regarded as the leader in the CDN market for its established position and largest footprint in the market, as well as several differentiators.

Specifically:-

• Capacity, performance and reliability assurance: Akamai’s network capacity is over 300 TBps. Akamai delivers average daily web traffic of more than 40 TBps, and peak traffic recently exceeded 100 TBps in October 2019.

• Security: Akamai has had a robust edge security offering for over 10 years (historically Akamai protected the WhiteHouse Website from a DDOS attack over two decades ago) and has positioned itself to double turnover from its cloud security services offerings. Akamai has extensive threat intelligence and insights, interacting with 130TB of data, over 1 billion devices and 100+ million IP addresses daily. No other network on the planet sees as much data on a daily basis.

• Media Delivery: Akamai has a comprehensive media delivery suite of services, which it continues to enhance in key areas such as live event streaming delivery, managed services, performance and latency improvements. Historically media providers and carriers worked hand in hand with Akamai to help each other spread their respective networks. Akamai was able to land in most of the world’s datacenters.

• Innovation: Akamai continues to expand its services and capabilities beyond CDN and leverages innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to address new areas like Bot Management, IoT, DevOps and blockchain.

• Services teams: Underpinned by worldwide follow the sun highly qualified services teams and its reach into many verticals, (most of the world’s banks and most of the world’s airlines) Akamai is very well capable in guiding its clients on how to deploy and leverage its CDN and Edge Services to reach its full potential and proven business benefits.