Akamai's route optimization technology improves the performance and reliability of dynamic applications and content delivered over the Internet. Akamai leverages several other techniques to improve application performance over the Internet, such as connection and protocol optimizations, caching, compression and prefetching.

This demo illustrates how Akamai identifies the fastest and most reliable path available between an Akamai edge server and an enterprise's origin data center to retrieve dynamic content. Select a pair of cities to compare Akamai versus the Public Internet.