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Deliver customized content quickly and reliably

Today's Web sites are growing in complexity and demand, driving a need for more processing to authorize, personalize, assemble, and deliver appropriate content to end users. While the demand for fresh and dynamic content grows, site owners typically use dynamic content sparingly, as it tends to slow page downloads and can even result in site abandonment.

A new collection of edge processing capabilities from Akamai gives enterprises the best of both worlds - the ability to deliver fresh and dynamically rendered pages without scalability or performance penalties. EdgeSuite Edge Processing extends and accelerates enterpises' e-business applications by performing authorization, assemblu, and transformation processing at optimal locations within the massive, globally distributed Akamai network.

EdgeSuite Edge Processing also scales up dynamically as demand for a Web site grows, eliminating the need to overprovision for peaks and improving site scalability.

Finally, EdgeSuite Edge Processing provides conditional page assembly based on a range of variables, includinf geographic prigin, time zone, device type, connection speed, cookie information, and query strings. This approach dramatically changes the way enterprises reach audiences, and ultimately improves user acquisition and retention.

How EdgeSuite Edge Processing Works

EdgeSuite Edge Processing integrates industry-standard Web development technologies such as ASP, JSP, and XSLT with the Akamai Platform...

Improved Performance

EdgeSuite Edge Processing does what was previously impossible-it caches dynamic pages. This capability requires retransmis-sion of fewer decisions and bytes from the origin site, boosting performance, and ultimately improving end-user experience.

Reduced Ownership Cost

EdgeSuite Edge Processing offloads Web, application, and database servers, freeing valuable computing resources and management time required to maintain a high-performing Web site. This future-proof solution enables companies to benefit from the newest edge computing technologies without carrying the burden of constant upgrades.

Optimized Server Utilization

The globally distributed Akamai Platform provides Edge Processing features that reduce load on application servers and databases, allowing existing infrastructure to be tuned for core business prpcessing and extending the capacity of existing origin servers.

Improved Reach and Reliability

Centralized infrastructure introduces performance and reliability constraints for global businesses trying to maintain an Internet presence. The Akamai network puts content and applications close to requesting users around the world.

Customization

EdgeSuite Edge Processing allows for a high degree of customization without incurring a performance hit by offloading personalization capabilities to the network edge. Edge Assembly allows content to be generated with browser-based user variables in addition to the geographic and network variables available only from Akamai's expansive, intelligent network. Edge Transformations using XSLT allow content to be custom rendered and delivered from the edge of the network to ensure quality of experience.

Access to New Technologies

Akamai continues to enhance Edge Processing capabilities to offer enterprises the benefits of edge processing using today's most popular technologies. Edge Transformations using XSLT are an example of new technologies which are now accessible from the Internet edge, and which allow EdgeSuite customers to separate content from presentation pro-cessing for a better end-user experience. With Edge Processing content providers can maintain a single store of XML content and using XSLT, render that content based on varying devices or even different user profiles.