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Akamai Technologies, Inc.
	Akamai headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts
النوع	Public
رمز التداول	NASDAQ: AKAM; NASDAQ-100 Component; S&P 500 Component
الصناعة	Internet
تأسست	1998; 22 years ago
المقر الرئيسي	150 Broadway; Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142; USA
أشخاص رئيسيون	George Conrades; (Chairman); F. Thomson Leighton; (Chief Scientist, CEO)
الدخل	▲ US$2٫3 billion (2016); ▲ US$1٫37 billion (2012);
ربح العمليات	▲ US$414 million (2013); ▲ US$314٫5 million (2012);
الدخل الصافي	▲ US$293٫5 million (2013); ▲ US$204 million (2012);
إجمالي الأصول	▲ US$2٫96 billion (2013); ▲ US$2٫6 billion (2012);
إجمالي الأنصبة	▲ US$2٫63 billion (2013); ▲ US$2٫35 billion (2012);
الموظفون	6,200 (December 2015)
المسقط الإلكتروني	akamai.com

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the الولايات المتحدة. Akamai's content delivery network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15% and 30% 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. When a user navigates to the URL of an Akamai customer, their browser is redirected to one of Akamai's copies of the website.

The company was founded in 1998 by Daniel M. Lewin (then a graduate student at MIT) and MIT applied mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Leighton currently serves as Akamai's CEO.

Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning "intelligent" or "clever".

History

Akamai Technologies entered the 1998 MIT $50K competition with a business proposition based on their research on consistent hashing, and were selected as one of the finalists. By August 1998 they had developed a working prototype, and with the help of Jonathan Seelig, Preetish Nijhawan, and Randall Kaplan, they began taking steps to incorporate the company.

التكنولوجيات

منصة أكاماي الذكية

عملية توصيل المحتوى

Akamai content delivery to a user

Peer-to-peer networking

Competitors

Amazon CloudFront
ChinaCache
Cloudflare
EdgeCast Networks
Incapsula
Instart Logic
Level ثلاثة Communications
Limelight Networks
Rackspace Cloud Files

انظر أيضاً

Akamai Techs., Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc.
Memcached

الهامش

^ December 17, 2012 - Akamai Announces CEO Succession. Akamai.com. Retrieved on August 14, 2013. Archived February 22, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
^ "AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES INC 2013 Annual Report Form (10-K)" (XBRL). United States Securities and Exchange Commission. March 3, 2014.
^ "AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES INC 2014 Q1 Quarterly Report Form (10-Q)" (XBRL). United States Securities and Exchange Commission. May 12, 2014.
^ "2011 Form 10-K, Akamai Technologies, Inc". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Archived from the original on May 7, 2013. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
^ "Strong dollar hurts Akamai's profit forecast, shares fall". Reuters. April 28, 2015.
^ "Two teams win top prize in MIT $50K contest". MIT News. May 13, 1998. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
^ "Akamai Technologies Inc". Reuters. Retrieved June 11, 2014.

المراجع

Erik Nygren, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, and Jennifer Sun. "The Akamai Network: A Platform for High-Performance Internet Applications". ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Vol. 44, No. 3, July 2010.