The Akamai network: a platform for high-performance internet applications
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Comprising more than 61,000 servers located across nearly 1,000 networks in 70 countries worldwide, the Akamai platform delivers hundreds of billions of Internet interactions daily, helping thousands of enterprises boost the performance and reliability of their Internet applications. In this paper, we give an overview of the components and capabilities of this large-scale distributed computing platform, and offer some insight into its architecture, design principles, operation, and management.
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OTTP services utilizing Akamai CDNs deliver content based on flat organization where cache misses is avoided by fetching content directly from original server.
“On the other hand, the OTTP services utilizing Akamai CDNs deliver the content based on the flat organization where cache misses is avoided by fetching the content directly from the original server [119].”
From QoE Management of Multimedia Streaming Services in Future Networks: A Tutorial and Survey (2020) · cites this paper as [119]
Server and network-based optimization strategies include bandwidth reservation, bitrate guidance, video stream prioritization, CDN orchestration and caching optimization, and server-assisted delivery.
“Server and Network-Based Optimization | Bandwidth reservation [107], [196], [200] or bitrate guidance [7], [197], [108], [245] video stream prioritization [246], CDN or- chestration and caching optimization [247], server-assisted delivery [110]”
From QoE Management of Multimedia Streaming Services in Future Networks: A Tutorial and Survey (2020) · cites this paper as [200]
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- Authors
- Nygren, E., Sitaraman, R. K., & Sun, J.
- Affiliations
- Akamai (United States) (US)
- Venue
- ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
- Published
- 2010-08-17
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 2-19
- ISSN
- 0163-5980 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1976986662
- Cited by
- 726
- References
- 28
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- FWCI
- 52.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Caching and Content Delivery
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cloud Computing and Resource Management
- Keywords
- Akamai, content delivery networks, distributed computing platform, network architecture, network reliability, platform management
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