Delivering a Great Online Video Experience:
What You Need to Know
With the increased popularity of online video content and the growth of broadband connections to the home, now is the time for publishers to experiment with online video as a new means of storytelling and offering an enhanced experience on their Web sites.
Whether your business streams, downloads or demands high definition (HD), Akamai delivers online video faster and more consistently without requiring companies to build or maintain any additional infrastructure. We also can simplify rich media management by offering flexible tools to control content, enforce business policies and protect your brand.
The Akamai EdgePlatform
| 25,000+ Servers |
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Typical daily traffic |
| 1,200 PoPs |
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170 + billion hits |
| 900+ Networks |
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100+ million streams |
| 650+ Cities |
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3,000+ terabytes delivered |
| 69 Countries |
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Akamai built the world's largest distributed computing platform - the Akamai EdgePlatform - using applied mathematics and algorithms to solve congestion and vulnerability problems on the Internet. Only Akamai reaches the edge of the Internet — where real capacity exists. We’re just 250 miles from any user in the world, and when you’re moving big video files, closer means faster.
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| Video Quality Matters |
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Read this report to learn the importance to your business of delivering a great online video experience.
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| MSN Live Earth 2007 |
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Akamai helped MSN deliver more than 65 million video streams around the world for the record-breaking Live Earth event in 2007.
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| NBA Gets More for its Media |
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Akamai's Stream OS tools allow the NBA to effectively manage more than 45,000 streaming assets, and provide access to online game highlight footage within minutes of production.
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