December 2007
CAMBRIDGE, MA — Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, announced the introduction of the Akamai Protocol.
As a core component of Akamai's distributed computing platform, the Akamai Protocol combines the high-performance application acceleration technology developed from the company's March 2007 acquisition of Netli, Inc. with Akamai's worldwide network of servers and SureRouteSM technology.
The highly differentiated Akamai Protocol comprises both transport-layer optimizations that address challenges such as packet loss and congestion, as well as application-layer optimizations that facilitate caching, intelligent prefetching, and compression.
As the leading managed services provider to accelerate dynamic applications across the Internet, Akamai enables its enterprise customers to increase user adoption of applications for increased productivity and revenue and improve the conversion rates for rich, dynamic retail environments.
The Akamai Protocol is a transparent technology component of Akamai services that support dynamic application acceleration, such as Dynamic Site Accelerator and Web Application Accelerator.
"Our strategy from day one of the Netli acquisition was to bring the best technologies from both companies together," said Chris Schoettle, executive vice president of Technology and Networks, Akamai.
"The Akamai Protocol is embedded in the fabric of our EdgePlatformSM Internet overlay infrastructure, creating a one-of-a-kind application delivery network for the optimized acceleration and availability of dynamic business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) applications."
As dynamic applications and content become increasingly prevalent, IT departments are challenged to solve the latency and availability problems that detrimentally affect applications delivered over the Internet.
Dynamic enterprise applications require acceleration techniques aside from caching and include supply chain management, extranet portals, machine-to-machine web services and software-as-a-service delivery models.
Affected commerce applications include rich internet applications such as AJAX-enabled Web sites. These applications typically require acceleration techniques that are more sophisticated than caching.
"When the core protocols of the Internet were created more than 30 years ago no one could have reasonably imagined the role they would play in today's world, and they certainly weren't designed to meet modern requirements" said Peter Christy, Principal Analyst of Internet Research Group.
"Over the last decade Akamai has done a remarkable job of finding innovative means of adding capabilities on top of the Internet that make up for the deficiencies of the original protocols. The Akamai Protocol is the latest contribution to that toolkit."
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