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Akamai Edge Caching Services

Ranjan Bhagirathan

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What is Akamai ?
 Provides a distributed operating environment on the web  Managed services for online content delivery, rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications

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History/Founding
 Founded in 1998  Incubated at MIT  Global presence, headquartered in Cambridge, MA  1600+ employees

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Clients


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Trivia
 One of the worlds largest distributed computing platforms  About 40,000 servers in 70 countries with nearly 950 networks  Delivers between 10-20% of all web traffic  Serves over 300 billion requests a day  85% of the worlds Internet users are within a single network hop of an Akamai server

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Akamai Edge Caching Solution


 With/Without Akamai  Akamai advantages The Edge Advantage (delivery from the Edge instead of central servers) Fast and complete delivery Optimised routes to avoid network congestion Reliability & Security  Akamai at Ericsson

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Questions ?

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Thank you !

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