Today is another exciting day for Akamai and our Aura Network Solutions
team with the announcement of our strategic partnership with Türk Telekom. We have teamed up to build a high capacity Operator
Content Delivery Network (OCDN) for high-quality delivery of online content and
video. The OCDN will also optimize the network efficiency of Turkey's Internet
infrastructure.
The partnership will ensure a significant increase in speed and performance
for broadband and mobile users in Turkey, particularly when accessing social
media and popular online video sites. It will also allow Turkish media
companies to provide high quality content to their audiences outside of Turkey.
If you don't already know, Türk Telekom is Turkey's leading
communication and convergence technologies company with a modern network
infrastructure covering the whole country; they offer a wide range of services
to residential and commercial customers in fixed lines and broadband Internet. With this partnership, Türk Telekom joins a select group of
leading telecommunications companies - AT&T, KT and Swisscom (not too
shabby) - who have entered a strategic partnership with Akamai to serve global
and local customers on a joint technology and network platform.
I think it's always best said by our partners what a partnership with
Akamai means to them. At a press conference last Thursday in London, Türk Telekom
CEO Tahsin Yılmaz commented...
"Türk Telekom built the communication infrastructure in Turkey and
continues to invest in new technologies. Our collaboration with Akamai is one
of the key steps we have taken in this area. As the leader of the Turkish
telecommunication industry, we'll be offering
benefits in cost and accessibility to all players in the Internet sector, from
content providers and media organizations to the end users who access their
services. Akamai is one of the largest providers of content delivery and cloud
services in the world and by providing
faster access to popular rich media content within Turkey, both
companies will ensure a highly efficient and top performing user experience to
all of the stakeholders in the industry."
"We'll be contributing to the Turkish economy by exporting data to
foreign countries. This partnership will also significantly reduce our network costs associated with
traffic originating from content across the globe. Better yet, we will be
making a significant contribution to Turkey's economy, as data traffic and
services within Turkey will be accessed by users in other countries. In a
sense, we'll be exporting data to many international customers."
Together we are going to make a huge impact, it doesn't get more exciting
than this!
To read the press release, please visit our press page. To learn more about our Operator CDN solutions, please visit the Aura section of our site.
Tara Bartley is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Akamai