Spring‚ Management Information Systems CH03_NBA Case (Laudon&Laudon‚ 2013) NBA: Competing on Global Delivery with Akamai OS Streaming [SUMMARY] The NBA uses Akamai’s global streaming video service to reach customers and strategic partners in Asia‚ Europe‚ the Middle East‚ Africa and North America with high quality video streams of NBA rich media content and problems. [URL] http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/testimonials/nba.html [NOTE] The Akamai video is a high-quality video that requires
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Akamai Technologies: The Web’s Content Distributor What does Akamai need to geographically disperse its servers to deliver its customers’ Web content? Necesita dispersar los servidores para acercar los datos a las personas que se encuentran lejos de la fuente principal‚ es decir que hace copias del archivo original y lo guarda en servidores alrededor del mundo para que cuando alguien lo necesite‚ la transferencia sea mas rápida ya que se redireccionara la fuente del archivo al servidor mas cercano
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1. Who are major competitor(s) to Akamai? Focus on one major competitor. Do some research and outline key differences between Akamai and its competitor in terms of services‚ pricing‚ technology‚ target customer etc. Provide some numbers if possible. 1. The three major competitors to Akamai are : a. Limelight networks b. Mirror Image c. Level 3 communications Difference between Akamai and Limelight networks in terms of: Limelight’s market share was 10% while Akamai’s was 66% for the Fiscal
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MIS 6204-0I1: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & MIS FUNDAMENTALS SPRING 2013 AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES DATE DUE: MARCH 30‚ 2013 Note: Students will work together in assigned groups and prepare one solution per group. Any member of a group can submit the solution; please do not submit multiple copies. 1. Identify the key decisions faced by Akamai as it evaluates its edge computing strategy‚ and make suitable recommendations. Your recommendations should account for (i) how edge computing differs from content
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Akamai’s edge servers will add complexity to both set-up and maintenance.” (Xanedu Courspack‚ PG 88). Two of the strategic questions that Akamai faces are as follows. First‚ should it keep the status quo of working with all web server platforms‚ or should it align with one partner? Second‚ going forward with the more involved EdgeSuite product‚ should Akamai increase its in-house sales force‚ rely totally on resellers‚ i.e. system integrators‚ hosting firms‚ and network carriers‚ or some combination
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Akamai Case Digest 1. Why did Akamai charge content providers and subsidize ISPs? Akamai Technology operated the content delivery network. Its first service‚ FreeFlow‚ facilitated the delivery of bandwidth-intensive page elements. A content provider could tag the object that it wanted to serve over the Akamai network. After tagging‚ websites could be over 10 times faster and be protected against sudden traffic bursts. FreeFlow could reduce the content providers’ payments to ISPs for bandwidth
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barriers to entry‚ there is a new wave of competitors entering the market. Akamai has created a unique advantage by differentiating themselves by operating a decentralized network that allows the company to operate on the “edge” of the internet‚ providing their clients a superior product. IP’s have also been patented to protect them from imitation and direct competition. At the same time‚ the decentralized network is putting Akamai at a cost disadvantage due to the high costs associated with the maintenance
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Case Report Akamai Technologies 6/20/2010 Problems: In 2001‚ Akamai Technologies was faced with decreasing revenue and an economic recession. In order to grow and remain a strategic asset to its partners‚ Akamai has been challenged with the expansion of the internet as well as a choice to move away from a content delivery network (CDN). Problems Akamai is faced with over internet performance include fast technical growth such as file sharing and streaming media‚ reliability of services
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Why does akamai need to geographically disperse its servers to deliver its costumers’ web content? Akamai allows its costumers to move their web-based products closer to their end users (local). Meaning that an Akamai website can deliver from 4 to 10 times faster as non-Akamai website‚ due to the 73.000 servers around the world. 2. If you wanted to deliver software content over the Internet‚ would you sign up for Akamai’s service? Why or why not? Yes we would sign up for the Akamai service due
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1. Why does Akamai need to geographically disperse its servers to deliver its costumers’ web content? Akamai allows its costumers to move their web-based products closer to their end users. Meaning that an Akamai website can deliver from 4 to 10 times faster as non-Akamai website‚ due to the 73.000 servers around the world. 2. If you wanted to deliver software content over the Internet‚ would you sign up for Akamai’s service? Why or why not? Yes I would sign up for the Akamai service due to the
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