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Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies boasts the industry's largest bandwidth capacity and coverage, with roughly one-third of global internet traffic passing through its network. It's also the only SaaS platform to guarantee a 100% SLA, and is trusted by half of the Fortune 500, including well-known brands like eBay, PayPal, Visa, Zappos, and Best Buy. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai specializes in content delivery network (CDN), cloud security, and edge computing services. Its core technology helps enterprises accelerate the delivery of web and application content, reduce latency, and strengthen network availability and security.
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Netron Information Technology | Akamai Service Coverage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Accelerates the delivery of both static and dynamic content through a globally distributed server network, optimizing the user experience.
Network Security
Includes Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS protection, API security, and threat protection, safeguarding applications and data against a wide range of cyberattacks.
Edge Computing
Moves computing and data processing power closer to end users at the edge, improving application efficiency and responsiveness.
Performance Optimization
Provides optimization techniques for web and mobile applications, reducing latency and boosting overall speed.
Netron Information Technology | Akamai's Key Advantages
Akamai Technologies is renowned for its outstanding performance, reliability, and innovation.
Global Coverage
Akamai Technologies operates the world's largest server network, spanning more than 130 countries and over 3,000 locations.
Efficient Dynamic Content Optimization
Akamai delivers more than just static content. It also optimizes and accelerates dynamic content, including dynamic web pages, API requests, and multimedia streaming.
Security
Akamai integrates robust security features into its CDN service, including DDoS attack protection, network threat detection, and a Web Application Firewall, helping protect customer content and users from a wide range of online threats.
Highly Customizable
Akamai's CDN service is highly customizable, allowing customers to configure and manage content delivery strategies based on their specific needs and use cases. This gives businesses fine-grained control to achieve optimal performance and cost efficiency tailored to their requirements.
Real-Time Analytics and Monitoring
Akamai provides powerful real-time analytics and monitoring tools, giving customers deep insight into content delivery performance, the ability to track user behavior, optimize delivery strategies, and respond to performance issues in real time.
Green and Sustainable
Akamai is committed to environmental responsibility and sustainability. Its CDN service is designed with energy-efficient and carbon-neutral initiatives, helping reduce data center energy consumption and lower carbon footprint.
Netron Information Technology | What Is CDN?
Content Delivery Network
A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a widely used technology in global network architecture, designed to optimize the speed and performance of content delivery for websites and applications. The goal of this architecture is to reduce the latency of resource requests, delivering a faster, more reliable, and efficient user experience. A CDN works by storing a website’s or application’s static and dynamic content across a distributed network of servers, typically located in different regions around the world, and using intelligent routing to direct user requests to the nearest available server.
The benefits of a CDN include:
High-Speed Delivery
CDN delivers content from servers located closer to the user, reducing transmission latency. This results in faster load times for websites and applications, contributing to a more responsive user experience.
Load Distribution
CDN distributes website traffic across multiple servers, reducing the load on any single server. This helps ease server strain, prevent crashes or overload, and ensures sustained availability.
Global Availability
By storing content across locations worldwide, a CDN lets users access content quickly no matter where they are, a critical advantage for websites and applications serving an international audience.
Security
CDN offers built-in security features such as firewalls, DDoS attack protection, and SSL certificate management, helping safeguard websites and applications from malicious attacks.
Reduced Bandwidth Costs
Since a CDN can serve content locally, it reduces the load on origin servers and network bandwidth, lowering overall operating costs.
Analytics and Monitoring
CDN provides detailed performance statistics and monitoring tools, helping website and application administrators understand user behavior and optimize their content delivery strategies.
Netron Information Technology | Akamai Solutions
Bot Manager
Akamai's Bot Manager identifies and manages automated traffic on your website. It distinguishes between good and bad bots, blocking malicious bot activity such as web scraping, account takeover, and cart hoarding, while allowing legitimate automated operations to proceed, ensuring website performance and user experience remain uninterrupted.
Prolexic
Prolexic is Akamai's DDoS protection solution, purpose-built to defend against large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Through a globally distributed protection platform, it rapidly absorbs and filters abnormal traffic, shielding websites, applications, and infrastructure from the impact of DDoS attacks.
Web Application Protector (WAP)
Web Application Protector is a cloud-based Web Application Firewall (WAF) that automatically defends against common web attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), protecting websites and APIs from exploitation.
Kona Site Defender
Kona Site Defender combines WAF and DDoS protection to deliver comprehensive website and application security. It detects and defends against attacks targeting web applications while simultaneously mitigating high-volume DDoS attacks, ensuring website availability and security.
Edge DNS
Akamai's Edge DNS is a high-performance DNS service that speeds up domain name resolution while protecting against DNS attacks through a distributed architecture. It ensures enterprise websites and applications remain fast and reliably accessible worldwide.
Fast DNS
Fast DNS is a high-availability DNS solution designed to deliver 99.999% uptime. It strengthens the security of your DNS infrastructure and improves resolution speed, ensuring your online business runs reliably.
Image & Video Manager
This is a service dedicated to optimizing and automating image and video processing. It dynamically adjusts the format, size, and compression of images and videos based on each user's device and network conditions, improving content load times while maintaining a high-quality visual experience.
Global Traffic Management (GTM)
GTM (Global Traffic Management) is a DNS-based traffic management service that directs user traffic to the optimal server based on real-time conditions, such as server load or geographic location. This service helps improve application availability and performance, particularly for enterprises operating globally.
Enterprise Application Access (EAA)
EAA (Enterprise Application Access) is a zero-trust architecture solution that uses identity-based security controls to let employees and partners securely access internal applications and data without needing a VPN, reducing the network's attack surface while improving both security and ease of access.
Page Integrity Manager
Page Integrity Manager is designed to protect a website's front-end assets from third-party code injection attacks (such as Magecart). It detects and blocks any attempt to inject malicious code into web pages, safeguarding your site's data security.
Akamai Cloud Security Solutions
This is a comprehensive cloud security solution covering web application protection, API security, and identity and access management, delivering full-spectrum protection for cloud applications and data, well-suited to the security needs of multi-cloud environments.
Netron Information Technology | Akamai Zero Trust Solutions
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
A new approach to remote access, delivering secure, fast access to internal applications.
Device and Web Security Protection
Blocks connections to malicious websites, C&C servers, and phishing sites, along with cloud application control, antivirus, and cloud sandboxing.
FIDO2-Supported Multi-Factor Authentication
The most secure form of multi-factor authentication, enabling passwordless login and protection against SMS code phishing.
Solving the Security Challenges of the New Hybrid Workplace with “Zero Trust”
- Strengthen identity verification and application permission management to secure remote connections
- Ensure the security of endpoint devices
- Prevent malware from spreading laterally across the network
Netron Information Technology | Recognized by Numerous International Organizations
Gartner WAAP Magic Quadrant – Market Leader
Akamai has held the Leader position for five consecutive years, offering capabilities unmatched by competing products. Facing an ever-evolving threat landscape, Akamai’s edge platform delivers exceptional visibility, providing accurate, predictive protection for websites, apps, and APIs.
Forrester Wave Recognition
Bot Management — Leader
Akamai was named a Leader in 2022 for its Bot Management capabilities, which improve visibility and control over bot traffic, helping safeguard your business’s online trust. Its ability to prevent malicious bots and its continued evolution in protecting user journeys have both been recognized.
Microsegmentation — Leader
Akamai’s newest offering, Guardicore, earned it a Leader position in this Forrester Wave category in 2022. It delivers a flexible security tool that goes beyond microsegmentation, isolating and protecting critical information and systems to prevent or mitigate the damage caused by ransomware.
Netron Information Technology | The World's Largest, Most Trusted Edge Computing Platform
Akamai Global Node Distribution (Orange: CDN Nodes / Purple: CDN + NetStorage)
Netron Information Technology | The Preferred Akamai Reseller
As Akamai's authorized partner, Netron Information Technology not only brings enterprises Akamai's powerful CDN services, but also combines Netron's own deep cybersecurity expertise and cloud consulting experience to deliver tailor-made solutions. Choosing to implement Akamai CDN through Netron Information Technology means gaining access to world-class technology, backed by Netron's 24/7 multilingual professional operations support.
Advantage 1
Netron isn't just an authorized Akamai partner. The company also brings deep cybersecurity expertise and cloud consulting experience, delivering security-enhanced CDN solutions tailored to the specific needs of broader Asia-Pacific region.
Advantage 2
We provide round-the-clock, 24/7 multilingual professional operations support. Whenever an issue arises, you can reach Netron Information Technology's technical experts directly.
Advantage 3
Approaching every engagement from a cloud consulting perspective, we recommend the optimal Akamai product mix and architecture adjustments based on your business characteristics, traffic patterns, and cost considerations, ensuring your technology investment delivers maximum return.
