Akamai

Definition of: Akamai

(Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA, www.akamai.com) A company that provides Internet content delivery with guaranteed performance using its own worldwide network. Founded in 1998 by a group of MIT scientists and Internet professionals, Akamai licensed routing algorithms developed at MIT to develop a high-performance network that could efficiently route traffic to the most expedient Web server depending on the source of the request and network conditions. Since most of the content of a Web page is graphics, a Web site customer might host the text itself and offload the graphics to Akamai. Akamai (pronounced "ah-ka-my") is Hawaiian for intelligent, or "cool."

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