Learn how IP Accelerator improves performance of IP-based applications and securely optimizes data delivery.
Make IP-based applications fast — for any user, on any device, anywhere.
Accelerate business growth by improving the performance and security of your non-cacheable applications while avoiding the high capital expenditures associated with private WAN infrastructure.
Deliver IP applications to globally distributed users securely and reliably
How IP Accelerator works
Features
- Direct IP Accelerator clients to the edge server that can best service requests with real-time dynamic mapping
- Enable real-time decisions to direct user requests to the best-performing data center
- Fast IP Blocking (FIPB) helps mitigate attacks against origin servers by filtering traffic from prespecified sources
- Protect against packet loss by replicating packets and sending them along different network paths
- Seamlessly manage changes to Akamai server IP addresses with Client Access Control
- TCP optimization to reuse TCP connections and reduce overhead associated with setup and teardown of connections
- Rate limiting allows users to control the number of requests made to the server
- Network optimization features to establish optimum path between Akamai edge server and origin server
IP Accelerator Use Cases
Boost app performance
Optimize IP traffic routes
Superior gaming experience
Secure business-critical apps
Boost app performance
Boost performance of custom or nonstandard apps
Traditional performance optimization tools are often built around standard protocols like HTTP/S, making it difficult to find solutions that work effectively with nonstandard methods or custom-built applications.
IP Accelerator supports any TCP and UDP port, allowing customers to deliver traffic for a wide range of applications, including custom protocols and legacy apps that may not use standard ports. This offers greater versatility and compatibility with various network topologies and application types. It also helps mitigate customer challenges related to poor network performance, such as user abandonment, and helps to avoid the cost of private network build-outs
Optimize IP traffic routes
Optimize and scale virtual desktop infrastructure
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments require a stable and fast network connection to deliver a seamless user experience. Latency or bandwidth constraints can severely impact the responsiveness of virtual desktops, leading to user frustration and reduced productivity.
IP Accelerator optimizes IP traffic routes to minimize network latency, enabling organizations to deliver consistent, high-quality virtual desktop experiences for employees worldwide without the cost and complexity of additional IT build-out.
Superior gaming experience
Deliver a superior online gaming experience
A reliable network connection, without sudden drops or network fluctuations, is essential in delivering a consistent user experience, especially in games with persistent online worlds or sessions. It ensures that data is transferred smoothly, preventing game freezes, lag spikes, or disconnections.
IP Accelerator optimizes the path that data takes across communication networks, minimizing packet loss, ensuring that game state changes, interactions, and updates are transmitted without disruption.
Secure business-critical apps
Enhance performance and security of business-critical applications
Minimizing latency and ensuring reliable delivery are crucial for financial transactions while real-time information flow is essential for efficient supply chain operations.
By accelerating traffic over optimized routes, IP Accelerator reduces the time it takes for data to reach its destination, ensuring time-sensitive operations can be carried out without delays, increasing operational efficiency.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
IP Accelerator offers a variety of key benefits to help optimize and secure your traffic:
- Route optimization: IP Accelerator uses multipath routing for optimized data transmission.
- TCP and UDP support: Both TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) are supported, allowing flexibility in managing different types of traffic.
- Allowed ports: Customers have control over which ports can be used, giving more granular control over network access and security.
- Rate limiting Implement rate limiting to manage traffic flow and prevent server overload, enhancing performance and stability.
- No caching: There is no content caching, ensuring that dynamic and frequently changing content is served directly and without delay.
- No SSL termination or decryption: SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) termination and decryption are not handled by IP Accelerator, maintaining end-to-end encryption of your data.
- IPv6 support: Full support for IPv6 ensures compatibility with the latest internet protocols, preparing your infrastructure for the future.
- OAC and CAC functionality: Origin Access Control allows users to view and acknowledge changes in the Akamai server IP addresses published to the Akamai Control Center. Client Access Control provides a mechanism to disclose a list of IP addresses to which end users are authorized to connect when accessing an IP-based application.
- Visibility and control: IP Accelerator provides network management tools and performance metrics to monitor and control internet traffic, IP applications, and site content.
Yes, IP Accelerator integrates seamlessly with both cloud and hybrid infrastructures. Whether your applications are hosted on a single cloud provider, multiple clouds, or a hybrid environment, IP Accelerator ensures traffic between users and your infrastructure is optimized for performance, security, and reliability.
The exact acceleration depends on network factors such as the distance between the end user and your origin server, internet congestion, and network conditions. However, by leveraging Akamai’s distributed network, you can typically expect:
- Reduced latency as traffic is routed through the most efficient path
- Improved consistency by avoiding congested or suboptimal routes
- Faster response times due to optimized global internet routing
IP Accelerator comes loaded with a strong set of security features, including rate limiting, Fast IP Blocking (FIPB), Client and Origin Access Control, security policies, and no traffic inspection, ensuring the encrypted data stays encrypted throughout.
SureRoute for IP (SRIP) is a proprietary overlay network that enhances internet traffic performance and reliability. The SRIP algorithm ensures optimized routing across the public internet by selecting the most efficient and least congested paths between endpoints.
It addresses one of the major limitations of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which determines how traffic is routed across the internet. BGP routing protocols look for the shortest number of hops between endpoints to determine a route. However, it gives no consideration to performance, often sending data through heavily congested routes.
To address these limitations, SRIP leverages Akamai ’s global edge network and scale to identify alternate communication paths between the end user and the application server, and continually assesses the performance of these routes to ensure that traffic is sent along the fastest path.
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