Akamai Edge Cloud Platform

Akamai Technologies is a global content delivery network (CDN), cybersecurity, and cloud computing company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1998 by MIT professor Tom Leighton (CEO since 2013), graduate student Daniel Lewin (who was killed on American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11, 2001), and Jonathan Seelig, Akamai pioneered the CDN industry. The name comes from the Hawaiian word for intelligent or clever. Akamai serves between 15% and 30% of all web traffic and operates one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms with over 4,200 points of presence (PoPs) across 134 countries. Key products: CDN: delivers web content, video streaming, software downloads, and applications from edge servers located near end users. Features include dynamic site acceleration, image optimization, adaptive media delivery, and large file delivery. The Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform routes user requests to the optimal edge server based on real-time network conditions. Security: Akmai's web security portfolio includes Kona Site Defender (DDoS protection and WAF), Bot Manager (detect and mitigate automated threats), API security, Zero Trust access (Enterprise Application Access), and certificate management. Cloud Computing: Akamai Cloud Computing (formerly Linode, acquired in 2022 for $900 million) provides virtual machines, Kubernetes, object storage, and GPU computing across global data centers. Media: adaptive bitrate streaming delivery for OTT video, live event streaming, and game delivery. EdgeWorker: run JavaScript at the edge for personalized content and dynamic routing. Enterprise Threat Protector: DNS-based security filtering. The company serves over 50 of the Fortune 100 companies. Publicly traded (NASDAQ: AKAM). Proprietary.