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Prolexic Platform Enhancements - New APJ Scrubbing C ...
by Don Ng and Greg Burns This October, Akamai is announcing the turn-up of two additional Prolexic DDoS mitigation scrubbing centers in Singapore and Osaka, building on the nine previous scrubbing centers turned up this year and adding to our existing APJ footprint in Sydney, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. The new regional centers add approximately 800 Gbps to the Prolexic platform's bandwidth to 7.8 Tbps of dedicated attack mitigation capacity.
Introducing the Bot Endpoint Protection Report
Todays comprehensive monitoring capabilities in Security Center provide great insight into bot activity and countermeasures applied across your valuable web properties. Filter options allow you to focus on almost any desired detail. However, understanding what is happening on specific protected endpoints requires an understanding of not only Web Security Analytics, but also how you should translate a specific question into a sequence of filters. This can be tedious for a
What's New In Security
It's that time of year again. Here at our global headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the days are getting shorter (at least in terms of sunrise and sunset). Gone are the 90 degree days of summer; 60 is the new normal. And as we are now in the midst of the final months of the year, Starbucks is bringing back its Pumpkin Spice Latte. Just kidding...that happened in August. Here in
Best Practices for Ultra-Low Latency Streaming Using ...
Over the last 15 years, live streaming services have grown from novelties & experiments in to profitable businesses serving an ever-growing cohort of cord-cutters and cord-nevers. Initial streaming implementations mimicked the workflows of the broadcast world, using custom servers to deliver streams via proprietary protocols. Here at Akamai traffic grew 22,000-fold from a 1 Gbps stream in 2001 (the first Victoria's Secret webcast) to 23 Tbps in June 2018 for
Drive Greater Efficiencies in Reaching a Distributed ...
The Challenge: Achieve Consistent Contribution while Maximizing Audience Reach Audiences are becoming increasingly distributed not only from a geographical perspective, but also in the channels viewers use when consuming live content. Content providers need a solution to efficiently and easily reach a distributed audience, while ensuring they are delivering an engaging experience to each of their viewers across across a variety of outlets.
Streamline OTT Delivery using Cloud Origins with Clo ...
By 2020, an estimated 92% of all workloads will be processed in cloud data centers. The emergence of public cloud providers has changed the way organizations build, deploy and manage their applications and workflows.
Tailor Video Experiences for Your End Viewers with M ...
While the number of online viewers continues to grow, content providers must be able to deliver high quality video streams, flawlessly at scale to meet the demands of these audiences. This is no small task as high volumes of requests often come from various locations, diverse device types and networks. When it comes to preparing content, some content providers opt for a one-size-fits-all approach, creating a similar bitrate ladder for
Ensure Highly Reliable First Mile Connectivity with ...
As linear OTT video services become mainstream, many broadcasters and online video distributors are increasingly looking for new ways to enhance service reliability. Many who manage their own origin infrastructures within a datacenter environment are seeking added assurance for ingest of their linear streams. Akamai sat down with several large online video distributors to better understand their requirements, and captured the following:
Go Live! Addressable, Ad-Supported, Live Video At Sc ...
Live streaming poses a unique set of challenges and online audiences can only be monetized to the extent that they remain engaged. From an advertising perspective, the viewing experience between your live content and the ads needs to not only be seamless, but also highly targeted in order to achieve meaningful returns. Prefetch is the name of the game.