CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK'S PIONEERING LEADER- A CASE STUDY ON AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. a content delivery network company founded by Dr. Leighton and Mr. Lewin on August 20, 1998. Akamai’s headquarter is situated in Cambridge city of Massachusetts state in the United States. In 20 years of inception Akamai has grown as a pioneering leader in CDN field and also started providing solutions pertaining to Web Performance, Media Delivery, Network Operator and Security field. Applications, Software and Content Delivery over the internet, enterprise professional services etc. are some of the services rendered by Akamai Technologies. The cause for inception of Akamai Technologies was from an academic research that hatched the algorithms which could route and reproduce web content intelligently over the distributed server network. With Dr. Leighton and Mr. Lewin, Randall Kaplan and Jonathan Seelig teamed up to incorporate Akamai. Dr. Leighton was serving as a head of the Algorithms Group of Computer Science Laboratory at MIT. The content delivery network of Akamai is one among the few biggest distributed computing platforms in the world. Akamai CDN serves15-30% of all Internet traffic. The business runs a global networked servers and resources on these servers are rented to clients who are looking for significant improvement in the performance of their website. Performance gain will be achieved by distributing user’s web content from nearby places. Akamai has a worldwide presence with around 7,500+ staff with annual revenue of $2.7 billion. As of July 31, 2019, the Company has deployed globally-spread content delivery network (CDN) comprising of 2, 39,000 servers approximately in almost 139 countries and closely 1,600 networks all around the world. Akamai ranked number 1 in the 2019 Boston Business Journal for the second year in a row as the Massachusetts Largest Cyber Security Company. The goal of Akamai is to ensure faster Internet experience without compromising security and reliability. In this paper, we analyze Akamai Technologies business and operational strategies along with services and products strategy, new product development strategies sustainability strategy and CSR strategy. Some recommendations are also provided based on the SWOC analysis to accelerate sustainable development