Akamai

Delivering High-Performing User Experiences to Any Device, Anywhere

Akamai’s Media Delivery offers a complete solution for companies to build successful digital media businesses by helping media providers deliver and monetize media assets quickly and effectively. Our global streaming platform extends your reach instantly, enables you to bypass traditional server and bandwidth limitations, and handle peak traffic conditions and large file sizes with ease—all without requiring additional infrastructure. Akamai Media Delivery enables the secure delivery of innovative rich media experiences—from video sharing to high-definition video online—quickly and flawlessly.

The Akamai HD Network is a cloud based technology platform for live and on-demand streaming that has been proven to support the largest online events by managing millions of simultaneous streams in a single event, and deliver true 1080p on-demand premium content. The Akamai HD Network is a platform for the next generation of streaming that starts with solving the problems of the last generation by:

  • Simplifying live and on-demand streaming to multiple devices and runtimes
  • Delivering an interactive TV-like experience that complements traditional TV
  • Protecting content with powerful, responsive, and easy to provision security
  • Raising the bar on scale, performance, and reliability

Key Components of the Akamai HD Network

  • Akamai HD for the Adobe Flash Platform. Live and on-demand streaming to the ubiquitous Adobe Flash Platform runtime, enabling reach to a wide range of desktops and devices in Flash Player and on AIR.
  • Akamai HD for iPhone and iPad. Live and on-demand streaming with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) consumed by devices including the Apple iPhone®, iPad®, or iPod® Touch.
  • Akamai HD for Microsoft Silverlight. Live and on-demand streaming to the Microsoft Silverlight runtime, using Smooth Streaming.
  • Akamai SecureHD. Multi-layered security for live and on-demand streaming that can be used together or independently across each of the supported runtimes to protect against the most common threats to content.
  • Akamai NetStorage for high availability, replicated storage of digital assets including media for HTTP download and on-demand streaming.