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Given the number of references, I doubt there's much in here that's not redundant or shouldn't be included directly into the article. --Ronz (talk) 19:14, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Traffic Cops Of The Net (BusinessWeek article)
 * Akamai: In the Broadband Internet Sweet Spot (article)
 * The Motley Fool's analysis of Akamai
 * The Akamai Story: From Theory to Practice
 * Yahoo! Finance "Akamai Technologies, Inc." Company Profile
 * Washington Post profile of the company
 * Akamai & The CDN Price Wars
 * Globally Distributed Content Delivery

Internet speed in iran
Hi, please add iran to the Q3 2015 ranking the download speed is 12mb/s Rocketboy98 (talk) 07:01, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

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Proposed Akamai Technologies Edits - Feedback Welcome!
All changes proposed were implemented Implemented: 3 October 2014

My name is Jamie Pappas and I manage marketing communications and social media strategy for Akamai. I am working on a project to update our Wikipedia page with factual and relevant information to make it more useful for visitors who may wish to learn more. I am keen to observe the Wikipedia guidelines and etiquette standards of factual, neutral information on our page.

I am going to be proposing changes over the course of the months of September and October 2014 and welcome your feedback on the proposed changes.

JamiePappas (talk) 20:58, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Proposed Introduction: Implemented: 3 October 2014

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a cloud services provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Akamai's content delivery network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15 and 30 percent of all web traffic. The company operates a network of servers around the world and rents capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster by distributing content from locations close to the user. Over the years their customers have included Facebook, Bing, Twitter and healthcare.gov. When a user navigates to the URL of an Akamai customer, their browser is redirected to one of Akamai’s copies of this website, almost entirely invisible to the vast majority of its users. As of 2009, secure connections (designed to highlight hidden intermediaries) posed a problem to Akamai, and attempts to connect to a popular website over HTTPS might reveal the Akamai backend. More recently, however, enhanced security offerings such as Kona Site Defender (Web Application Firewall) have become a major selling point, and in 2013 were the leading driver of revenue growth for the company. The company was founded in 1998 by Daniel M. Lewin (then a graduate student at MIT) and MIT applied mathematics professor Tom Leighton, together with Jonathan Seelig, Preetish Nijhawanand Randall Kaplan. Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Leighton currently serves as Akamai's CEO. Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning “intelligent” or “witty.”

JamiePappas (talk)

Forthcoming Proposed Sections & Edits:


 * History


 * Products & Services


 * Acquisitions


 * Partners


 * Corporate Responsibility


 * Recognition & Awards

Proposed History Section: Implemented: 3 October 2014

History
Accepting a challenge posed by Dr. Tim Berners-Lee, Dr. Tom Leighton, a professor of applied mathematics, began working with his colleagues to create a better way to deliver content over the Internet. Co-Founder Daniel M. Lewin, a graduate student of Leighton’s, devised key algorithms that would become an essential part of improving content delivery. In 1997, Leighton and Lewin entered the annual MIT $50K competition with a business proposition based on their research, and their proposal was selected as one of the finalists. By August 1998 they had developed a working prototype, and with the help of Jonathan Seelig, Preetish Nijhawan, and Randall Kaplan, they began taking steps to incorporate the company. In late 1998 and early 1999, a group of business professionals joined the founding team. Most notably, Paul Sagan, former president of New Media for Time Inc. and George Conrades, former chairman and chief executive officer of BBN Corp. and senior vice president of U.S. operations for IBM. Sagan became Akamai’s chief operating officer, and eventually president, while Conrades became chief executive officer. The company launched commercial service in April 1999 and was added to the NASDAQ Stock Market on October 29, 1999. In 2001, co-founder Daniel M. Lewin died in the September 11th attacks at the age of 31. Lewin was aboard American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center. Effective July 1, 2001, Akamai was added to the Russell 3000 Index and Russell 2000 Index. In 2005, Paul Sagan was named chief executive officer of Akamai. Sagan worked to differentiate Akamai from its competitors by expanding the company's breadth of services. Under his leadership the company grew to $1.37 billion in revenues. Sagan served as chief executive officer until co-founder and current CEO, Tom Leighton, was elected to the position in 2013.

Proposed Products & Services Section: Implemented: 3 October 2014

Akamai Intelligent Platform
The Akamai Intelligent Platform is a distributed cloud computing platform that operates worldwide. It is a network of over 100,000 servers deployed in more than 90 countries. These servers reside in more than 1,000 of the world's networks gathering real time information about traffic, congestion, and trouble spots. Each Akamai server is equipped with proprietary software that uses complex algorithms to process requests from nearby users, and then serve the requested content.

Content Delivery Process
The content delivery process begins with a user submitting a request to a browser. When a user enters a URL, a DNS request is triggered and an IP address is retrieved. With the IP address, the browser can then contact a web server directly for subsequent requests. In a content delivery network structure, the domain name of the URL is translated by the mapping system into the IP address of an edge server to serve the content to the user.

Akamai delivers web content over its Intelligent Platform by transparently mirroring elements such as HTML, CSS, software downloads, and media objects from customers’ servers. The Akamai server is automatically picked depending on the type of content, and the user's network location. Receiving content from an Akamai server close to the user allows for faster download-times and less vulnerability to network congestion. Akamai claims to provide better scalability by delivering the content over the last-mile from servers close to end-users, avoiding the middle-mile bottleneck of the Internet.

Peer-to-Peer Networking
In addition to using Akamai's own servers, Akamai delivers content from other end-users' computers, in a form of peer-to-peer networking. When users request a download of some large files served by this system, it prompts them to download and install “Akamai NetSession Interface,” a download manager used to reduce download time and to increase quality. However, this software operates not merely as a download manager (delivering content from the Internet to the user's computer) but also as a peer-to-peer server, delivering content cached on the user's computer to other users' computers.

Network Operations Command Center
Akamai’s Network Operations Command Center (NOCC) is used for proactive monitoring and troubleshooting of all servers in the global Akamai network. The NOCC provides real time statistics of Akamai’s web traffic. The traffic metrics update automatically and provide a view of the Internet traffic conditions on Akamai’s servers and customer websites.

State of the Internet
The State of the Internet report is a quarterly report Akamai releases based on data gathered from its Intelligent Platform. The report provides global Internet statistics such as connection speed, broadband adoption,  attack traffic, network connectivity, and  mobile connectivity.

Visualizing the Internet
Akamai’s data visualization tools display how data is moving across the Internet in real-time. Viewers are able to see global web conditions, malicious attack traffic, and Internet connectivity. In addition, the net usage indices monitor global news consumption, industry specific traffic, and mobile trends. Akamai also offers the Internet Visualization application, which allows users to view real-time data their mobile device.

OPEN Initiative
On October 9, 2013 Akamai announced it’s Open Initiative at the 2013 Akamai Edge Conference. OPEN allows customers and partners to develop and customize the way they interact with the Akamai Intelligent Platform. Key components of OPEN include system and development operations integration, real-time big data integration, and a single-point user interface.

Proposed Acquisitions Section: Implemented: 3 October 2014

Acquisitions

 * On February. 10, 2000, Akamai acquired Network24 Communications for an aggregate purchase price of $203,600,000.


 * On Apr. 20, 2000, Akamai acquired InterVU Inc. for an aggregate purchase price of $2,800,000,000.


 * In July. 25, 2000, Akamai acquired CallTheShots, Inc., for an aggregate purchase price of $3,700,000.


 * On June 10, 2005, Akamai acquired Speedera Networks, Inc. for an aggregate purchase price of $142,200,000.


 * In Dec. 13, 2006, Akamai acquired Nine Systems, Inc., for an aggregate purchase price of $157,500,000.


 * On Mar. 13, 2007, Akamai acquired Netli Inc. (Netli), for an aggregate purchase price of $154,400,000.


 * On Apr. 12, 2007, Akamai acquired Red Swoosh Inc. for an aggregate purchase price of $18,700,000.


 * On Nov. 3, 2008, Akamai acquired aCerno Inc., for an aggregate purchase price of $90,800,000.


 * On June 10, 2010, Akamai acquired Velocitude LLC., for an aggregate purchase price of $12,000,000.
 * On Feb. 7, 2012, Akamai acquired Blaze Software, Inc., for an aggregate purchase price of $19,300,000.
 * On Mar. 6, 2012, Akamai acquired Cotendo, Inc., for an aggregate purchase price of $278,900,000.


 * On Sept. 13, 2012, Akamai acquired FastSoft, Inc., for an aggregate purchase price of $14,400,000.


 * On Dec. 4, 2012, Akamai acquired Verivue, Inc., for an aggregate purchase price of $30,900,000.


 * On Nov. 8, 2013, Akamai acquired Velocius Networks for an aggregate purchase price of $4,300,000.
 * In February 2014, Akamai acquired cyber security provider, Prolexic Technologies for an aggregate purchase price of $390,000,000.

JamiePappas (talk) 20:58, 25 September 2014 (UTC)