2. Akamai is a Hawaiian word
meaning smart or intelligent with association
of insightful or wise or skilful.
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3. Akamai's beginnings lie in a challenge posed
by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) in early 1995.
The father of the Web foresaw the
congestion of network, and he challenged
colleagues at MIT to invent a fundamentally
new and better way to deliver Internet
content.
Exposing such an academic problem would
ultimately result in a service that is
revolutionizing the Internet.
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4. MIT Professor of Applied Mathematics ―Tom
Leighton‖, who had an office down the hall from
Dr. Berners-Lee, was intrigued by the challenge.
Dr. Leighton, a renowned expert on parallel
algorithms and architecture, has served as head
of the Algorithms Group at MIT's Laboratory for
Computer Science since its inception in 1996.
Dr. Leighton recognized that a solution to Web
congestion could be found in applied
mathematics and algorithms.
He solicited the help of graduate student Danny
Lewin, and several other top researchers, to
tackle the problem.
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5. Dr. Leighton and Mr. Lewin were joined by
other scientists with expertise in computer
science and data networking to develop the
mathematical algorithms necessary to handle
the dynamic routing of content and solve
what was, by then, a frustrating problem for
Internet users.
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6. Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM).
Akamai is a company that provides a distributed
computing platform for global internet content
and application delivery.
The company was founded in 1998 by
MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom
Leighton,
MIT graduate student Deniel Lewin, along with
MIT Sloan School of Management students
Jonathan Seelig and Preetish Nijhawan.
Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines flight
11 which crashed in the September 11 attacks of
2001.
Leighton still serves as Akamai's Chief Scientist.
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7. SET AN ALGORITHMS:-These world-class
scientists developed a set of breakthrough
algorithms for intelligently routing and
replicating content over a large network of
distributed servers — without relying on
centralized servers typically used by Web site
owners today.
MADE BUSINESS ORGANIZATION:-Jonathan
Seelig and Preetish Nijhawan then enrolled in
the MIT Sloan M.B.A. program, joined the
founding team, and they began building the
business plan that would lead to Akamai's
inception.
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8. Entrepreneurship Competition:- In 1998, the
group entered the esteemed annual MIT $50K
Entrepreneurship Competition, where the
company's business proposition was selected
as one of six finalists among 100 entries. The
distinction signaled that Internet content
delivery had serious market potential.
License :-Akamai obtained an exclusive
license to certain intellectual property from
MIT, and development efforts began in the
fall of 1998.
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9. Together, these computer scientists and
experienced Internet professionals founded
Akamai, a company dedicated to ending the
"World Wide Wait" through intelligent
Internet content delivery.
The company launched commercial service in
April 1999 and announced that one of the
world's most trafficked Web
properties, Yahoo!, was a charter customer.
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10. In late 1998 and early 1999, a group of
experienced Internet business professionals
began to join this founding team.
Paul Sagan who was a former President of Time
Inc. New Media, a founder of Road Runner cable
modem service and who helped launch NY 1
News, became chief operating officer and
eventually president of Akamai Technologies.
George Conrades, former chairman and chief
executive officer of BBN Corp. and senior vice
president of U.S. Operations for IBM, assumed
the helm as chief executive officer a few months
later.
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11. Akamai provides products and services that enable the
world’s leading enterprises and government agencies to
extend and control their e-business infrastructure.
Having deployed the world’s largest, globally-distributed
computing platform,
Akamai ensures the highest levels of
availability, reliability, security, and performance of
networked information and
applications delivery between the origin and the
destination of any e-business process.
Akamai’s industry-leading products and services,matched
with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of
successful enterprises, government entities, and
Web businesses around the globe.
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12. Security:- More than 2,000 enterprises trust
Akamai to make the Internet a safe,
Reliability:-Reliable place to do business. As a
consumer you’ve probably used our technology
without even knowing it.
Easy Use:- If you’ve ever checked sports
scores, booked a hotel, tracked an order, or
watched a movie trailer online.
Chances of Improvement:-professional looking
to improve the performance and reliability of
your Website, content, and applications, you’ll
find yourself in very good company when you
work with Akamai.
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13. Media & Entertainment:-Serves content for 5 of the
top 6 online music sites, 29 of the top 30 media/entertainment
companies
Business Services:-Leaders in information services like
Thomson Reuters, and comScore rely on Akamai to provide
customers with reliable access.
Financial Services:-Protects and enables transactions for
Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Easy-Forex and other top institutions.
Gaming:-Enables delivery of gaming content for next-
generation consoles from Nintendo, and helps many other
companies to meet gamers.
Hotel & Travel:-Handles online bookings for world’s largest
hotel firm & big brands like Expedia, Marriott, & Travelocity.
Insurance:-Six of the top ten US insurance companies rely on
Akamai.
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14. Health Care & Life SciencesLeading life sciences
companies like Merck, Phase Forward and Medidata
rely on Akamai to reach clinicians and patients
worldwide.
Manufacturing & AutomotiveTrusted by all of the
top auto makers – Toyota, GM, Audi, BMW, and more.
Public SectorEnables online operations for 10 of the
world’s governments, all branches of the US
Military, and many other agencies
Enables $100 billion in annual e-commerce revenue;
used by over 85% of the top online retailers.
Software and TechnologyUsed by all of the top 5
anti-virus companies to distribute software online.
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15. Logitech Implements Akamai
EdgeComputingSM
for Java to Extend Marketing-
Driven, Promotional Contest.
Akamai routinely delivers between fifteen
and thirty percent of all Web
traffic, reaching more than 4 Terabits per
second.
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16. Logitech wanted to ensure a positive user
experience during the entire promotional
event. This meant that all of our affected
sites had to be available and work as
promised during peak loads.
Extending their infrastructure across
Akamai’s platform saved significant costs
that would have been necessary in
purchasing new equipment, re-negotiating
their ISP contract essentially upgrading their
entire infrastructure all to handle the
traffic, representing over 72 million page
views presented during the event.‖
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17. 18,000 Servers World-Wide
Akamai has over 18,000 servers world-wide that support edge
caching and computing.
AF utilizes a secure ―slice‖ of the Akamai network
~1,000 servers
1,100+ Networks
Situated on the Internet’s 1,100+ top networks and network
peering points
Transaction delivery latency <0.35 seconds
Unique ability to ―bridge‖ ISP back-bones when:
Networks go down
Network congestion occurs
Virus, Worm, Hacker, or other malicious activity is
detected
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Random scanning and worm
traffic blocked – sharply
reducing false positives at
the IDS
Legitimate traffic
served from the edge
(DNS, HTTP, SSL, Stre
aming)
Firewall will only allow
Akamai traffic into the
origin
Increased levels of
background attack
traffic reported in the
Akamai Portal
21. Future Uses:-Akamai’s growth prospects for
the long term.
Ease for customers:-Their approach to
helping customers solve the challenges of
cloud computing, HD entertainment, and
online advertising will make a valuable
organisation.
Online Business:-The next wave of growth
online. Their focus in 2013-14 will be to
continue to invest for the future to help
customers drive the success of their online
businesses.
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22. Preserve Environment:-As prepare for this
growth and the positive impact, it will have
on Akamai’s business, it is reflecting on, and
taking steps to ameliorate, the impact that
their business operations have on the
environment.
Global Co-operation:-This important
process, part of responsibility as a global
corporation, is why they initiated the Akamai
Sustainability Initiative to organize and
improve upon their earlier sustainability
efforts.
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