Benefits

Akamai Services can help your business:

Control costs:

• Lower information technology (IT) hardware costs by outsourcing IT infrastructure
• Go to market faster for new initiatives
• Reduce customer service calls resulting from a poor online user experience
• Scale easily, without additional investment in hardware, software or staff

Improve performance:

• Enhance the customer experience by making sites fast and reliable
• Deliver improved digital media experiences
• Increase download completion rates
• Improve the performance of “frame-heavy” business-to-business pages

Bypass bottlenecks:

• Adjust to fluctuating site requests
• Handle peak traffic loads
• Secure operations
• Add a layer of server infrastructure protection for business continuity
• Route traffic around potential security issues

Features

Application Performance Solutions

Web Application Accelerator:

• Speeds performance of dynamic, interactive Web applications without requiring additional infrastructure
• Gives users a fast, reliable application experience by applying the acceleration and route optimization technologies of the Akamai platform

IP Application Accelerator:

• Resembles the Web Application Accelerator in functionality, but is designed specifically for customer premises equipment (CPE).
• Addresses core Internet weaknesses to improve the performance, availability and real-time sensitivity associated with Internet protocol (IP)-enabled applications delivered over protocols such as secure sockets layer (SSL), IP security (IPSec), Citrix® independent computing architecture (ICA), user datagram protocol (UDP) and file transfer protocol (FTP)

Dynamic Site Solutions

Dynamic Site Delivery:

• Maintains high performance and reliability of dynamically rendered, personalized Web sites
• Increases scale, reach and performance rapidly without added infrastructure

Dynamic Site Accelerator (DSA):

• Provides on-demand scalability, mission-critical reliability and an improved customer experience by configuring intelligently to handle all types of content — whether infrequently viewed, popular or even dynamic
• Securely enables acceleration of dynamic, highly interactive Web sites
• Gives users performance that is up to five times faster than original Web infrastructure
• Makes the Internet a reliable and effective channel for conducting business

Digital Asset Solutions

Akamai Media Delivery:

• Offloads the burden of supporting peak traffic and large media files from company servers
• Helps deliver an improved online experience to all end users, regardless of where they are, what formats they need or what devices they are using

Akamai Stream OS:

• Provides a powerful Web-based suite of configurable tools
• Enables easy publishing of rich media to the Web, detailed usage reports and rights management
• Makes it easy to manage and deliver rich media — including Windows Media®, RealMedia™, QuickTime®, Flash® and MP3 files — as well as software downloads and electronic documents

Electronic Software Delivery:

• Enables companies to distribute more software faster, without geographic limitations
• Uses the global Akamai platform to scale on demand to handle widely varying traffic, for even the largest software images
• Builds in optimization and security techniques to provide complete, quick downloads around the world, as well as tools to report on them
• Satisfies the demand from consumers and businesses to download large software files at will, quickly and without hassle
• Supports multiple users downloading a file simultaneously without performance impacts

Service Options

Akamai Services are available as a comprehensive Internet solution from Verizon, or as a stand-alone offering for customers that host in their own data center or even with another provider.

Application Performance Solutions:

Improve the performance of Web-based applications using:

• Web Application Accelerator
• IP Application Accelerator
• Dynamic Site Solutions

Help increase response times and accelerate the performance of highly interactive, content-rich Web sites with:

• Dynamic Site Delivery
• Dynamic Site Accelerator
• Dynamic Site Accelerator Secure

Digital Asset Solutions:

Meet the growing demand for hassle-free access to large software files.

Deliver media assets quickly and effectively through:

• Akamai Media Delivery
• Akamai Stream OS
• Electronic Software Delivery