Collaborate Disseminate
With 35 medals at stake, the last full day of competition during the games in Tokyo generated the highest video streaming traffic for 30-plus customers on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform. Continue reading Tokyo Streaming Traffic Runs Rings Around Rio
Since the onset of the pandemic, home entertainment has never been more important. Millions of users across the globe have turned to over-the-top (OTT) streaming and live TV to bring much-needed diversion and exciting content into their lives. MwareTV … Continue reading World-Class OTT Streaming from MwareTV with Akamai
Since the onset of the pandemic, home entertainment has never been more important. Millions of users across the globe have turned to over-the-top (OTT) streaming and live TV to bring much-needed diversion and exciting content into their lives. MwareTV provides content delivery solutions designed for the TV platforms of today and tomorrow — a web brimming with rich media and millions of users that demand high-quality content in an instant. MwareTV partnered with Akamai to provide state-of-the-art technology that enables the efficient performance of streaming content to entertain, connect, and empower global viewers. Continue reading World-Class OTT Streaming from MwareTV with Akamai
Near the end of March 2020, G2A.COM saw its traffic virtually double overnight. The pandemic had just begun, and people were looking for ways to stay entertained and connected under lockdown. Not surprisingly, a lot of people turned to video games, and G2A.COM was one of the first places they went to for affordable game keys and activation codes. Continue reading G2A’s Journey to Global Growth, Part 1: Keeping Gamers and Geeks Playing During a Pandemic
I’ve spent my entire career in technology and can still recall the time when a desktop PC was the only way to work. (Truth be told, I’m also old enough to remember dumb terminals.) I also remember my first company laptop — a beast of a thing with a mo… Continue reading Location- and Device-agnostic Security for the Mobile Workforce
I’ve spent my entire career in technology and can still recall the time when a desktop PC was the only way to work. (Truth be told, I’m also old enough to remember dumb terminals.) I also remember my first company laptop — a beast of a thing with a monochrome display so thick it came with an integrated 2.5" floppy drive and a battery life that made it barely usable. My first mobile phone was a Motorola Timeport, the first tri-band mobile phone that could work in Europe and North America. Continue reading Location- and Device-agnostic Security for the Mobile Workforce
The video streaming traffic that Akamai delivered for more than 30 rights-holding customers during the July 11 Italy-England football (soccer) final as part of the delayed-to-2021European soccer tournament peaked at 34.9 Tbps on the Akamai edge platform. Continue reading Streaming Numbers Jump for European Football Tournament Delivered by Akamai
Every year, Q-dance (part of the ID&T group), a Dutch electronic music experience company, delights its die-hard fans (or their "tribe") at the world’s largest hardstyle festival, Defqon.1. Helicopters, simulated earthquakes, special moments like Power Hour, and amazing shows make up the unique experience. Continue reading Akamai Helps Q-dance Bring Its Tribe to Defqon.1 at Home — a Global Virtual Festival Experience
You may have seen the announcements over the past two weeks — the IETF QUIC RFCs have been published! That leads to a lot of questions, depending on how closely you’ve followed this space. You might be wondering what this means to you, or you might th… Continue reading HTTP/3 and QUIC: Past, Present, and Future
You may have seen the announcements over the past two weeks — the IETF QUIC RFCs have been published! That leads to a lot of questions, depending on how closely you’ve followed this space. You might be wondering what this means to you, or you might think QUIC has been an established thing for years now. And how does HTTP/3 fit into this? Is HTTP/3 another name for QUIC? Continue reading HTTP/3 and QUIC: Past, Present, and Future