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Overview: Akamai is the leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability, and manageability.

Akamai's services and world-class customer care give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media and application delivery comprises more than 12,600 servers in more than 1,000 networks in 66 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services to companies worldwide.

Did you know?

- The Akamai network handles billions of hits per day.

- Akamai management and employees formed The Akamai Foundation in September 2000 to foster excellence in math learning and proficiency for an Internet-centric world.

- Akamai's world-class customer service delivery organization, acclaimed by the Help Desk Institute and STI Knowledge, operates three globally distributed service centers, the innovative I.AM.AKAMAI customer portal, and provides 24x7 customer care for Web-enabled enterprises around the world.

- Akamai has delivered some of the biggest events in Web history, including 2000 Presidential Election coverage for CNN.com and MSNBC.com, and New Line Cinemas' The Lord of the Rings movie trailer, which prompted 6.6 million downloads in one week.

- Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.

- Akamai's network is "fault-tolerant" or self-correcting in the event of failure. When individual servers, data centers or even entire backbones fail, Akamai continues to deliver content for its customers around the clock.

- Akamai has changed the Internet forever.

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Akamai Application Performance Services for the Manufacturing Industry by Akamai Technologies
Manufacturing web sites serve a dual role. Extranets keep suppliers and dealers productive and also provide media-rich B2C sites with personalized, engaging content and applications for brand-building and self service. To succeed, manufacturers like Audi, Toyota, and Nissan rely on Akamai.

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Akamai Application Performance Services for the Travel Industry by Akamai Technologies
Akamai's Application Performance Services improve reliability, performance and consistency of enterprise applications across the web. They have provided quick returns, increased bookings and enhanced customer experiences for leading players in the Travel Industry.

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Akamai Digital Asset Solutions for the Media and Entertainment Industry by Akamai Technologies
If you provide anytime-anywhere online media, you have to overcome irregular traffic, large file sizes, and unpredictable Internet conditions to deliver your media assets quickly and effectively. Akamai Digital Asset Solutions help companies such as CBS, Viacom, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Starz Entertainment Group overcome these challenges.

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Akamai Dynamic Site Solution for the CPG Industry by Akamai Technologies
Akamai Dynamic Site Solutions ensure high performance and reliability of dynamically-rendered, personalized Web sites within the CPG Industry. The solutions provide a optimized user experience encouraging consumers to browse and buy.

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Akamai Dynamic Site Solution for the Hotel and Travel Industry by Akamai Technologies
Akamai Dynamic Site Solutions offer the Hotel and Travel Industry a full product line for their Websites ensuring that today's new dynamically-rendered content is delivered with the highest levels of performance and reliability for even the most personalized online transactions.

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Akamai Dynamic Site Solution for the Retail Industry by Akamai Technologies
Providing a personalized user experience that encourages consumers to browse and buy requires richer content and applications that are assembled dynamically. Akamai's Dynamic Site Accelerator enables these interactive Web sites by providing performance that is up to five times faster than a Web site's original infrastructure.

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Akamai Services for the High Tech Industry by Akamai Technologies
Akamai solutions for high tech companies provide a high-quality user experience that improves the success of your online activities. Whether your goal is to increase downloading of electronic software or to drive greater adoption of your B2B portal, Akamai can deliver to your customers faster software and page download times across the globe.

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