Key Impacts
- Monthly growth rate of between 30% and 40%
- Acceleration of Web site performance
- Uninterrupted 100% availability
- Flexible configuration
- Enhanced competitiveness with regard to future Web technologies
- Real-time reporting improves responsiveness to Web trends
- No investment in additional hardware necessary
With its workforce of nearly 1,000 employees, ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion, a wholly owned subsidiary of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, is the largest division of this well-known German media group and provides mission critical technical services to the business's four key operational areas of Production, Creation, Broadcasting Services and Technology. The Technology division is responsible for the hosting of ProSiebenSat.1 Networld, the online service offering of the ProSiebenSat1 Group.
"Our primary objective was to provide online visitors to ProSiebenSat.1 Networld with perfectly presented, informative and highly entertaining Web content 24/7. After some intensive research we decided that only Akamai was able to satisfy all of our demands," said Torsten Gesang, Manager Team Security and Web-based Systems at ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion. By partnering with Akamai, ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion can keep up with the explosive growth of their Internet traffic, as the increase of data transfer volume from 44Terabytes (TB) in July 2006 to about 210 TB in September 2007 demonstrates. For ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion this means a monthly increase of 30% to 40% that the company cannot support on its own without loss of performance and additional infrastructure costs.
"Our primary objective was to provide online visitors to ProSiebenSat.1 Networld with perfectly presented, informative and highly entertaining Web content 24/7. After some intensive research we decided that only Akamai was able to satisfy all of our demands."
—Torsten Gesang, Manager Team Security & Web-based Systems, ProSiebenSat.1 Production
