BenQ Corporation—headquartered in Taiwan—is a fast-paced and far-sighted global organization, with 2006 revenues exceeding $6.02 billion. As a technology leader in digital projectors, storage devices, wireless technologies, and electronic components, BenQ is one of the world's top producers of digital displays, mobile phones, scanners, and keyboards. Singled out as one of the world's top performing IT companies, BenQ has been featured in Business Week’s Infotech100. The company employs over 14,000 individuals worldwide. To ensure brand consistency, the company's branding department produces and disseminates marketing-related materials to BenQ's offices and distributors worldwide via BenQ's e-download system.
By offloading 70% of its content to Akamai, BenQ has greatly reduced the demands on its own infrastructure. Akamai boasts a worldwide network of 25,000 globally distributed Edge Servers, and its patented technology provides for the smooth distribution of content over the Internet. Whether simple HTML pages or extensive Web sites with high volumes of data, such as video or other rich media content, Akamai is able to optimize the delivery of this content—improving site performance for visitors across the world. Since BenQ implemented the Akamai solution at the beginning of 2007, it has seen consistent improvements in the performance of download. "We continue to be impressed by the fast download speeds," says Woo.
"Akamai offers a level of performance that we could not achieve on our own."
—Michael Woo, Vice President of IT Consulting, BenQ
