The Akamai Difference for Social Networking

Akamai delivers a platform for expansion, innovation and exploration, enabling the world's leading social media companies to succeed. Because of the unique nature of the content they make available, social networking sites face a number of challenges that standard content delivery networks (CDNs) may not address. Many CDNs, including those with limited geographic distribution, serve web pages directly from a customer's origin server, and serve objects from the same centralized server network, reducing performance and reliability improvement opportunities.

In contrast, Akamai's unique EdgePlatform network outperforms the competition by providing on-demand scalability, mission critical reliability, and a superior customer experience by configuring to handle all types of content intelligently - whether infrequently viewed, popular, or even dynamic.
In addition, through Dynamic Site Accelerator (DSA), Akamai offers unique social media site acceleration technologies that increase the speed and reliability of uncacheable content. Akamai’s unique user intelligence capabilities also enable companies to fight bots and malusers more easily and effectively than ever before. Akamai doesn’t just deliver bits; it delivers a full solution to help social networking companies monetize the immense latent value of their social communities.