Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), pronounced [ɑkɑmɑɪ], is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, whose headquarters are in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel Lewin, along with MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton and MIT Sloan School of Management students Jonathan Seelig and Preetish Nijhawan. Leigh...
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), pronounced [ɑkɑmɑɪ], is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, whose headquarters are in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel Lewin, along with MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton and MIT Sloan School of Management students Jonathan Seelig and Preetish Nijhawan. Leighton still serves as Akamai's Chief Scientist, while Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines flight 11 which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning smart or intelligent.
Akamai transparently mirrors content — sometimes all content including HTML and CSS, and sometimes just media objects such as audio, graphics, animation, and video — from contractor servers. Though the domain name (but not subdomain) is the same, the IP address points to an Akamai server rather than the contractor's server. The Akamai...
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