Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a global provider of content delivery network (CDN) and cloud infrastructure services.

The company’s solutions accelerate and improve the delivery of content over the Internet, enabling faster response to requests for web pages, streaming of video & audio, business applications, etc. Its offerings are intended to reduce the impact of traffic congestion, bandwidth constraints and capacity limitations on customers.

Moreover, Akamai’s solutions allow customers to operate their web transactions anywhere anytime with cost-effective outsourced infrastructure and carry out predictable, scalable and secure e-business at low cost.

These solutions are built on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, which is the technological platform for its business solutions and hosts some of the world’s best-known Internet brand names.

The company’s cloud optimization solutions help organizations to improve performance, increase availability and enhance the security of applications and key web assets delivered from data-centers to the end user.

Akamai’s platform comprises more than 350,000 servers located in over 1,300 networks around the world.

Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Akamai reported revenues of $3.81 billion in 2023.

The company has three operating segments: Security, Delivery and Compute. In 2023, Security and Delivery segment accounted for 46.3% and 40.5% of total revenues, respectively; while revenues from Compute accounted for 13.2%.

In 2023, Akamai generated 51.6% of total revenues from the U.S., while revenues from international footprint accounted for 48.4%.

Akamai markets and sells its services and solutions both domestically and internationally through direct sales and more than 100 active channel partners, including AT&T, Orange Business Services, IBM, Deutsche Telecom and Telefonica Group.