Akamai

Akamai Technologies is one of the world's largest and oldest content delivery network and cloud security companies, operating a massively distributed platform that powers a significant portion of global internet traffic. Founded in 1998 at MIT and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai serves thousands of enterprise customers worldwide, including major financial institutions, media companies, government agencies, and global retailers.

Akamai's Intelligent Edge Platform consists of more than 4,000 points of presence in over 1,000 cities across 135 countries, providing the infrastructure for content delivery, security, and cloud computing services. Akamai's distributed architecture processes exabytes of internet traffic daily, making it one of the highest-capacity networks in the world and a critical component of global internet infrastructure.

Akamai Delivery provides content delivery network services for web content, media streaming, and API acceleration, using Akamai's edge infrastructure to serve content from locations close to end users. Akamai's media delivery solutions support adaptive bitrate streaming for live and on-demand video at scale, serving some of the world's largest streaming events to global audiences.

Akamai Security provides a comprehensive portfolio of edge security services including DDoS mitigation (Akamai Prolexic), web application firewall (Kona Site Defender), bot management (Bot Manager), API security, and account takeover protection. Akamai's security products leverage the company's unique position in the network to detect and mitigate threats before they reach customer infrastructure, providing protection at a scale that individual organizations cannot replicate on their own.

Akamai's Guardicore acquisition has expanded the company's portfolio to include micro-segmentation and zero trust networking capabilities for on-premises and cloud data center environments. Akamai's cloud computing offering, Linode (now Akamai Cloud), provides virtual machine, object storage, Kubernetes, and managed database services globally, extending Akamai's infrastructure capabilities beyond the CDN and security domains.