Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a global content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services company founded in 1998 by MIT researchers including Tom Leighton and Daniel Lewin. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai operates a large distributed edge platform that caches and delivers web content, media, and software updates from thousands of servers around the world. Over the years it has expanded beyond traditional CDN services into edge computing, performance optimization, and a broad suite of security offerings.

Akamai’s product portfolio includes web and media delivery, application and API acceleration, edge computing (EdgeWorkers), and cloud security services such as DDoS protection, web application firewalls, and bot management. The company has grown both organically and through strategic acquisitions (for example Prolexic for DDoS mitigation and Linode to expand compute capabilities), and it serves enterprises, media companies, and large-scale online services that need rel...