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Accelerating Innovation in a Hyperconnected World

Tom Leighton, Chief Executive Officer, Akamai Technologies

©2013 AKAMAI | FASTER FORWARDTM

• Web servers• Local load balancers• Application servers• SSL and authentication servers• Video streaming infrastructure• Managing third party content• Compression & connection

management servers• IDS & IPS servers• DNSSec & IPv6 support• Mobile app infrastructure• Redundant data centers & failover

Managing a State of the Art Web Presence


End-Users

Internet

The Web: Simple on the Outside…


X

(Cloud) Datacenters

End-Users

12,000 networks connected by peering points

X

…but Problematic on the Inside

AT&T

Level 3

Cogent


(Cloud) Datacenters

X

X

End-Users

AkamaiServer

The Akamai Solution

AT&T

Level 3

Cogent


Evolution from Theory to Practice

1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 20122011

Fall 1997 – Spring 1998: $50K Competition

1995 – 1998: Academic Research at MIT

Fall 1998: Incorporation

Spring 1999: Akamai Goes Live

1999 – 2001: Bubble Mania

2001 – 2003: The Bubble Burst

2004 Onward: Growing a Profitable Company

2010:$1B Milestone

1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2013+

Road to $5BInnovation &

Global Expansion


The Akamai Cloud Today

Accelerating Daily Traffic of:• 10+ terabits per second • 20+ million hits per second• 1.5+ trillion deliveries/day• 50+ petabytes/day• 10+ million concurrent streams

15–30+% of Web Traffic

Delivering 250,000+ Domains

• All top 60 eCommerce sites• All top 30 M&E companies • 9 of the top 10 banks• All branches of the U.S. military

• 130,000+ Servers• 1,100+ Networks• 650+ Cities• 86 Countries

A Global Platform:


Let’s see it live!


Media over IPOver 90% of IP traffic will be video by 20151

Cloud AdoptionNearly 2/3 of application

workloads will be cloud-based by 20161

Megatrends Driving the Market

The Challenge:Quality at Scale

Sources: 1-Cisco, 2-Ericsson 3-McAfee

The Challenge:Performance & Cost

Mobile50 Billion connected

devices by 20202

The Challenge:Performance & Capacity

Cyber AttacksCyber attacks

have increased >50X since 20093

The Challenge:Availability & Data Integrity


You Can Start a Successful Company

• Don’t be afraid to make mistakes…but correct them quickly!

• Expect to work 18 x 7 x 365 x years

• You’ve got to move fast…operate with a sense of urgency!

• Be “tenacious as Hell”


Q&A