Akamai Speeds Web Content Delivery at the UO

Over the summer, distributed content delivery from Akamai, the foremost provider of global, high-performance services for delivering Internet content, was set up on the Oregon Internet Exchange (OIX), which is located at the University of Oregon.

This delivery service from Akamai (Hawaiian for "intelligent, clever, and cool") improves web site speed and reliability by delivering rich web content from its network of more than 4250 servers around the globe. By routing and replicating content over a large network of distributed servers, Akamai ensures that users get web content delivered from the server closest to them. This system avoids congestion as well as the risk of failure from a single, centralized point.

With the deployment of Akamai servers on OIX, UO users and OIX partners are assured of rapid, reliable access to a wide range of popular web content, while conserving use of wide area bandwidth. A recent bandwidth study found Akamai to be the source of more traffic to Oregon Wide Area Network (OWEN) and NERO (Network for Education and Research in Oregon) users than any other single autonomous system, making its location at OIX particularly useful to OWEN/NERO customers as well as the UO itself.

Major Akamai customers include Yahoo!, CBS, CNN Interactive, Brittanica.com, and NASDAQ.com.

For more facts about Akamai, see

http://www.akamai.com/
http://www.wirednews.com/wired/archive/7.08/akamai.html
http://www.cookreport.com/09.03.shtml