Multimedia Technologies

With our Streaming, you can take advantage of a high-quality, extremely reliable streaming service to support your brand, e-business, and marketing investments.

Use the Web to deliver a superior user experience, reach worldwide audiences, and launch new communication initiatives.

Whether it's on demand product demos, corporate presentations, live news, sports, or entertainment events, music, or movies, Akamai streams content to Web visitors flawlessly — every time.

These days, if the video looks jerky or the audio drops out, customers just abandon the site. Instead of trusting this critical Web service to unproven technologies or unknown partners, you can use Akamai EdgeSuite Streaming to distribute on demand, live, and around-the-clock streaming media content from the edge of the Internet, delivering a rich experience for your end users. Akamai supports all four major encoding formats — Apple® QuickTime™, Microsoft® Windows Media™, RealSystem® G2, and MacroMedia® Flash Streaming — for both narrowband and broadband use.

Streaming On-Demand EdgeSuite™ Streaming downloads a stream from storage and transfers it reliably to the optimal Akamai streaming servers...	Streaming Live EdgeSuite™ Streaming sends multiple copies of the same stream over different routes from an Akamai Entry Point ...
Flash Streaming Akamai is uniquely qualified to deliver the engaging and rich Macromedia Flash content...	Streaming Authentication The Akamai Streaming Authentication solution allows content providers to authenticate requests for streaming content, both live and on demand ...