Akaima Case STYDY
1. Why does Akamai need to geographically disperse its servers to deliver its customers’ Web Content?
a. This is because of the purpose of Akamai, which is to solve the congestion on the Internet crowed. Therefore, Akamai’s current products are using this technique that a cloud platform made up of over 150,000 servers within over 1,000 networks in 78 countries around the world. These servers allow the platform to identify and block security threats and instant device-level detections, etc. So that the local server will first receive the load then provide to local users. This will reduce the 15% up to 30% of web traffic and Latency (delay). The last but not the least, this has data verification and acknowledgement to make sure the information is safe.
2. If you wanted to deliver software content over the internet, would you sign up for Akamai’s service? What alternatives exist?
a. Yes, I would. First of all, the case is to deliver software content over the internet, which means this product will in a certain size and will be download by users from different areas, even different countries. What is more, even we assume that there is likelihood that the software would not as big as a HD movie, but as the information and technology flows, there will be more likely update my software in the future. Therefore, software such as Akamai would be very necessary. So that use Akamai software would guarantee the data is reliable, scalable, transmit in a fast speed, flawless, and secured with report feedback. To be more realistic, when a employee search for “Faster internet delivery software”, Akamai comes at one of the Tops link on Google. Plus, many good feedback remarks.
b. There are Blue Coat, Limelight, Savvis, and Mirror Image Internet (In the book).
3. What advantages does an advertiser derive from using Akamai’s service? What kinds of products might benefit from this kind of service?
a. First of all, Akamai provide more accurate and comprehensive knowledge with
a. This is because of the purpose of Akamai, which is to solve the congestion on the Internet crowed. Therefore, Akamai’s current products are using this technique that a cloud platform made up of over 150,000 servers within over 1,000 networks in 78 countries around the world. These servers allow the platform to identify and block security threats and instant device-level detections, etc. So that the local server will first receive the load then provide to local users. This will reduce the 15% up to 30% of web traffic and Latency (delay). The last but not the least, this has data verification and acknowledgement to make sure the information is safe.
2. If you wanted to deliver software content over the internet, would you sign up for Akamai’s service? What alternatives exist?
a. Yes, I would. First of all, the case is to deliver software content over the internet, which means this product will in a certain size and will be download by users from different areas, even different countries. What is more, even we assume that there is likelihood that the software would not as big as a HD movie, but as the information and technology flows, there will be more likely update my software in the future. Therefore, software such as Akamai would be very necessary. So that use Akamai software would guarantee the data is reliable, scalable, transmit in a fast speed, flawless, and secured with report feedback. To be more realistic, when a employee search for “Faster internet delivery software”, Akamai comes at one of the Tops link on Google. Plus, many good feedback remarks.
b. There are Blue Coat, Limelight, Savvis, and Mirror Image Internet (In the book).
3. What advantages does an advertiser derive from using Akamai’s service? What kinds of products might benefit from this kind of service?
a. First of all, Akamai provide more accurate and comprehensive knowledge with