Akamai
Basics
Basics
Akamai mainly sells its services to other companies, making it this type of business model.
What is B2B?
This term refers to when a website or online service suddenly receives much more traffic than normal, such as during Black Friday or a major streaming release.
What is a traffic spike?
CDN stands for this.
What is Content Delivery Network
One major service area for Akamai is protecting companies from cyberattacks, also called this.
What is cybersecurity?
This company is one of Akamai’s main competitors in CDN and security.
What is Cloudflare?
Akamai was founded by Tom Leighton and Daniel Lewin, who were connected to this university.
What is MIT?
Akamai’s case shows that even a few seconds of delay can cause users to abandon a website. About how many seconds is often considered the limit before users start leaving?
What is 3 seconds?
This type of network stores content closer to users so websites, apps, and videos load faster.
What is a Content Delivery Network / CDN?
Akamai’s security services help protect websites from attacks that try to overwhelm them with fake traffic.
What are DDoS attacks?
Amazon’s CDN service that competes with Akamai is called this.
What is CloudFront?
Akamai was officially launched in this year.
What is 1998?
Akamai redirects user requests to nearby servers instead of distant origin servers to improve this.
What is speed / load time?
Edge computing places computing and data storage closer to this group.
Who are end users?
Akamai’s competitive advantage comes partly from its long-term relationships with major companies that rely on Akamai for speed, reliability, and security.
What is enterprise trust?
Netflix building its own CDN is an example of this kind of threat to Akamai.
What is a substitute / in-house substitute?
Websites that are "_____" can be delivered anywhere from 4 to 10 times as quickly as non-"_____" content.
What is Akamized?
This term refers to a sudden increase in online traffic, such as during Black Friday, a viral event, or a major streaming release.
What is a traffic spike?
By serving content from nearby servers instead of distant origin servers, Akamai reduces this network delay.
What is latency?
Because traditional content delivery is becoming more competitive, Akamai is trying to grow more in cybersecurity and this area.
What is cloud computing / edge computing?
Name one Akamai customer from the case or slides.
Who is Airbnb, Coca-Cola, eBay, FedEx, Fidelity, Marriott, PayPal, Riot Games, Spotify, Warner Media, or The Washington Post?
Akamai was created after researchers realized that heavy Internet traffic could overload websites and create this type of bottleneck.
What is Internet congestion
During major traffic spikes, CDNs act as this for the Internet by reducing strain on the main network.
What is a safety valve?
Akamai’s edge network improves cloud computing by moving some processing and data storage away from remote cloud data centers and closer to users. This helps save bandwidth and improve this.
What is response time?
In business strategy, this term means the reason customers should choose one company over its competitors.
What is a value proposition?
Large companies like Netflix, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook reduced their reliance on Akamai by creating their own private content delivery systems.
What are in-house CDNs?