Akamai pivotal in CNN Election Day coverage

Cambridge, MA -- Akamai services were used to enable millions of users to stay informed throughout CNN's online coverage of Election Day.

CNN.com used Akamai's content and streaming delivery services to serve up-to-the-minute election coverage to a record-breaking audience with speed, performance and reliability.

CNN.com worked with Akamai to deliver election coverage, including live and on-demand audio and video feeds of the presidential contest and regular news updates on the presidential, congressional, gubernatorial and ballot contests. Throughout the multi-day election period, Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service and scalable network helped CNN.com provide quality, reliable streaming experiences to more than 65,000 concurrent viewers.

Akamai's FreeFlowSM service delivered non-streaming content with speed and performance, thus allowing CNN.com to handle spikes in traffic throughout the critical hours of the election. Akamai's Traffic Analyzer tool calculated the record-breaking data in real-time, monitoring all Internet traffic activity for CNN.com during Election Day.

"CNN is recognized as a worldwide leader in news and information delivery," said Paul Sagan, president of Akamai. "Having worked closely with CNN.com throughout several major media events, we see Election Day as a milestone for Akamai's ability to support and scale to meet the needs of our customers' most important and business-critical requirements."

Akamai's FreeFlow and FreeFlow Streaming services are built upon the Company's EdgeAdvantageSM platform that uses sophisticated algorithms to monitor the Internet on a real-time basis, understand the location of the requesting user, and make intelligent decisions about the best and most efficient Akamai edge server from which to deliver content to the end user.