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Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), pronounced [ɑkɑmɑɪ][2], is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, whose headquarters are in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel Lewin, along with MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton and MIT Sloan School of Management students Jonathan Seelig and Preetish Nijhawan. Leighton still serves as Akamai's Chief Scientist, while Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines flight 11 which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning smart or intelligent.
[edit] Content delivery to a user  Akamai transparently mirrors content—sometimes all site content including HTML, CSS, and software downloads, and sometimes just media objects such as audio, graphics, animation, and video—from customer servers. Though the domain name (but not subdomain) is the same, the IP address points to an Akamai server rather than the customer's server. The Akamai server is automatically picked depending on the type of content and the user's network location. The benefit is that users can receive content from whichever Akamai server is close to them or has a good connection, leading to faster download times and less vulnerability to network congestion or outages. In addition to image caching, Akamai provides services which accelerate dynamic and personalized content, J2EE-compliant applications, and streaming media to the extent that such services frame a localized perspective. [edit] Primary domainsAkamai Technologies owns about 60 other domains, but the primary domains it uses are:
[edit] CustomersAkamai's customers include many large internet, media and computer companies, as well as many other non-tech companies with online media distribution requirements. On July 21, 1999, at Macworld Expo New York, Apple and Akamai announced a strategic partnership to build Apple's new media network, QuickTime TV (QTV), based on QuickTime Streaming Server.[3] Both companies later announced that Apple had made a $12.5 million investment in the company the previous month.[4] Apple continues to use Akamai as their primary content delivery network[5] for a wide range of applications including software downloads from Apple's website, QuickTime Movie Trailers, and the iTunes Store.[6] In September of 1999 Microsoft and Akamai formed a strategic relationship to incorporate Windows Media technology in Akamai's FreeFlow service, as well as to facilitate the porting of the FreeFlow product to the Windows platform.[7] This relationship also still exists to this day. Other customers include Amazon.com, Adobe Systems, J. C. Penney, and Yahoo![5] Arabic news network Al-Jazeera was a customer from March 28, 2003 until April 2, 2003, when Akamai decided to end the relationship.[8] The network's English-language managing editor claimed this was due to political pressure.[9] In June 2008, The NewsMarket teamed with Akamai to accelerate dynamic content and applications to global media ahead of the Beijing Olympics.[10] The BBC iPlayer uses Akamai to stream its recorded and live programmes, focussed through an XML Playlist. The official U.S. government website for the White House, http://www.whitehouse.gov/, uses Akamai Technologies for hosting video clips of President Barack Obama's web addresses on their own in-house servers, after having posted previous addresses as embedded YouTube clips on the site.[11] [edit] AcquisitionsIn March 2005, Akamai signed an agreement to acquire Speedera Networks for 12 million shares of Akamai common stock, valued at $130 million at that time.[12] Both companies also agreed to halt pending lawsuits involving trade secrets and patent infringement.[13] The acquisition was completed in June 2005.[14] In November 2006, Akamai acquired Nine Systems Corporation for roughly $164 million[15] using "approximately 2.7 million shares of our common stock, approximately $4.5 million in cash and the assumption of options to purchase approximately 400,000 shares of our common stock."[16] On April 12, 2007 Akamai acquired Red Swoosh in exchange for 350,000 shares of Akamai common stock.[17] The acquisition of Red Swoosh was valued at approximately $15 million, net of cash acquired. In late 2008, Akamai acquired acerno, a performance-based ad network, and launched a new division, Advertising Decision Solutions.[18] [edit] See also[edit] References
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