Akamai also attempts to solve the problem of getting information to people fast. They have a huge network of servers across the world, and for a price will manage your content so that the important stuff is already as far along the pipeline to the requesting user as possible. Most large corporations, lots of media content providers, and probably some government agency buy services from akamai because, from what I know, they have the best, if not only, network and software of its kind. The software actually monitors your content to see what is most frequently requested and from where and moves the data to the right place to make downloading a web page (or streaming movie) as quick and painless as possible.
They stopped doing the ASP thing cause they make so much managing traffic. on 12/9/02 10:26 AM, Tyler Durden at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Akamai was one of the up-and-coming ASPs that went nearly busto during the > dot-bomb era. > > An ASP is an Application Service Provider--for a while it was thought that > certain expert applications would actually be adminstered and served > remotely from a company that knew this stuff better than you. This would > keep your company from having to staff 'experts' in each application. > > > > > > > > > > >> From: Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Akamai Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:52:21 -0600 >> >> Anyone know anything about Akamai (www.akamai.com, also >> akamaitechnologies.com)? I was getting about a zillion hits on my web >> server >> from them this morning. They seem to offer services to gov't agencies >> according >> to their website. >> >> >> -- >> Harmon Seaver >> CyberShamanix >> http://www.cybershamanix.com > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
