| Akamai Technologies offers a distributed architecture for e-business applications that leverages network intelligence and economies of scale to deliver the type of reliability, scalability, performance, and availability required for mission-critical e-business systems. As of October, 2001, Akamai's network consists of approximately 13,000 servers in 1,000 leading carriers in more than 63 countries. These include hosting, backbones, broadband, satellite, and subscriber/access networks. This highly proven network platform is already the workhorse of the mission-critical infrastructures of 1,200 of the world's leading e-businesses and supports average traffic levels of multiple gigabits per second.
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