Akamai is a company that provides distibuted computing platform for Internet Content and application delivery aka CDN (Content Delivery Network/ Content Distribution Network).
Akamai transparently mirrors content—sometimes all content including HTML and CSS, and sometimes just media objects such as audio, graphics, animation, and video—from customer servers. Though the domain name (but not subdomain) is the same, the IP address points to an Akamai server rather than the customer's server. The Akamai server is automatically picked depending on the type of content and the user's network location.
The benefit is that users can receive content from whichever Akamai server is close to them or has a good connection, leading to faster download times and less vulnerability to network congestion or outages.
Akamai claims it delivers 20% of the Internet traffic !
On their website , you can see continually-updated visualizations that provides a picture of global Web traffic, viruses/attacks, the speed of data moving between major cities, and the volume of data and users on the Akamai platform.
Real time web monitor
Real Time web Monitor
Net Usage Index , which are updated every 5 minutes
Click here
You can get a Desktop widget too from here
Get it here
Here is a video of Jeff Richards , talking about CDN
Thursday, September 25, 2008
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