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BUSINESS DESCRIPTION

Akamai Technologies (Akamai or "the company") provides content delivery and cloud infrastructure

services for accelerating and improving the delivery of content and applications over the internet.

Its solutions are designed to help companies, government agencies and other enterprises enhance

revenue streams and reduce costs by maximizing the consistency, performance and security of their

Internet-facing operations.

The company operates in one industry segment: providing services for accelerating and improving

delivery of content and applications over the internet. Its core solutions include application and cloud

performance services, video and software solutions, website optimization services, security and

protection solutions, network operator solutions, mobile device solutions, advertising decision solutions

and site intelligence offerings.

Akamai's application and cloud performance solutions are designed to improve the operation of

highly dynamic applications used by enterprises to connect with their employees, suppliers and

customers. The application and cloud performance solutions provided by the company include web

application accelerator and IP application accelerator. The web application accelerator service is

designed to improve the performance of web-based applications through a combination of dynamic

caching, routing and connection optimization, dynamic caching and compression of content. Akamai's

IP application accelerator solution is designed to optimize the performance, availability and real-time

sensitivity associated with IP-enabled applications delivered over Internet-related protocols such as

SSL, IPSec, UDP and FTP.

The company’s video and software solutions are designed to enable enterprises to execute their

large file management and distribution strategies by improving the end-user experience, enhancing

reliability and scalability and reducing the cost of Internet-related infrastructure. Akamai’s video...