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Akamai Drives New Standards and Enhances Authoritative DNS and Load Balancing Services

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For more than 20 years, Akamai’s customers have trusted our global edge platform to deliver their content, secure their web applications, and accelerate end-user experiences. As the basis for our mapping functions, Akamai DNS has always been essential to the reliability and performance of our platform and our services, and our popular authoritative DNS services — Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management (GTM) — are a direct result of the significant investments made by Akamai in our DNS infrastructure. Continue reading Akamai Drives New Standards and Enhances Authoritative DNS and Load Balancing Services→

All Resolvers Aren’t Equal – Don’t Worry, GTM is Aware

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Global Traffic Management, or GTM, is a DNS-based load balancing service that offers application owners a level of flexibility and insight that is unmatched by traditional on-prem solutions. Highly scalable and fault-resilient, GTM offers customers a l… Continue reading All Resolvers Aren’t Equal – Don’t Worry, GTM is Aware→

All Resolvers Aren’t Equal – Don’t Worry, GTM is Aware

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Global Traffic Management, or GTM, is a DNS-based load balancing service that offers application owners a level of flexibility and insight that is unmatched by traditional on-prem solutions. Highly scalable and fault-resilient, GTM offers customers a layer of abstraction between endpoints, so traffic can be easily shifted between targets. However, the platform is not limited to weighted load distribution: GTM can execute intelligent routing decisions based on end-user location, network conditions, and even origin server availability. These features are possible thanks to Akamai’s unrivaled visibility into the Internet, which fuels the platform’s dynamic, data-based route optimization engine. Continue reading All Resolvers Aren’t Equal – Don’t Worry, GTM is Aware→