Akamai Technologies
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Akamai Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a corporation that provides, among other services, global Internet content caching.
Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning "intelligent" or "clever." Beyond the name, the company has no ties with Hawai‘i.
Their customers include Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, FedEx, Xerox, iVillage, Apple Computer and Music Television (MTV).
The company was founded by a then graduate student at MIT, Daniel Lewin (along with applied math professor Tom Leighton, who currently serves as Akamai's Chief Scientist). He died at the age of 31 as a passenger on one of the flights that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
External links
- Akamai home page (http://www.akamai.com/)
- Washington Post profile of the company (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59806-2004Sep29.html)
- Theory of how akamai works (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/ratul/akamai.html)de:Akamai