Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a content
delivery network (CDN) and cloud services provider headquartered
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Akamai's content
delivery network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms,
responsible for serving between 15 and 30 percent of all web traffic. The
company operates a network of servers around the world and rents
capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster
by distributing content from locations close to the user.
