The Akamai network

2010/08/17 by Erik Nygren, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Jennifer Sun +1 · 4 citations
Computer Science · #Architecture #Caching and Content Delivery #Computer network #Computer science #Computer security #Distributed computing #Distributed systems and fault tolerance #Operating system #Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies #Reliability (semiconductor) #Scale (ratio) #Server #The Internet

paper · doi:10.1145/1842733.1842736

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Abstract

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.

Citations

• Congestion control for high bandwidth-delay product networks
• Web caching with consistent hashing

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