Akamai Technologies, Inc. ("“Akamai"” is meant "“intelligently"” or "“refined"” a Hawaiian word and) one is the solution offerer for the distribution and acceleration of on-line contents, leading world-wide, for example the distribution of load of www contents.

Akamai cooperates over 15.000 servers in more than 69 countries. To over 1.100 customers the Akamais among other things Yahoo! belong, Airbus, BMW, Microsoft, Ebay, the WDR, Apple and white Haus.Der international company headquarters from Akamai are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the USA, while the seat of the German address is in Munich.

History and development

Akamai was created in April 1999 by the mathematician Tom Leighton and the computer scientist Danny Lewin, both by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (WITH); they were supported among other things by Jonathan Seelig, Paul Sagan and George Conrades.

In August 1999 Akamai could supplement its capital: Apple invested 12.5 million US Dollar, while Cisco acquired shares in the value of 49 million US Dollar.

At the beginning of of 2000 took over Akamai the Internet Broadcaster Network24. In February 2000 followed the offerer Intervu for a purchase price of approximately 2.8 billion US Dollar. From the union the world largest Internet Provider for Streaming Media and other wide-band applications resulted. The two offerers had together 3.000 servers in 100 networks, which were distributed over 40 countries.

On 11 September 2001 died Akamais joint founder Daniel M. Lewin, who had been on board one of the two airplanes, which were flown to the towers of the World trade of center.

In May 2004 it came to an almost complete loss of the Web services, so that many large Websites of the Akamai customers could not be achieved. At the beginning of assumed Akamai an Denial OF service attack, later communicated the enterprise, the problem would be because of a nose in the Akamai software, which after 90 minutes could be repaired.

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