Barriers to content production & distribution in AfricaAFPIF 2015 - MozambiqueChristian Kaufmann - Akamai Technologies

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Highly distributed, deeply deployed on-demand computing platform that serves any kind of web traffic and applications

The Akamai Intelligent Platform

Typical daily traffic:• More than 2 trillion requests served • Delivering over 33 Terabits/second • 15-30% of all daily web traffic

The Akamai Intelligent Platform:

200,000+Servers

2,000+Locations

130+Countries

1,300+Networks

1100+Cities

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ON-NET, IX or Transit?

Transit

Eyeball Network

Origin Server

IX

Content

CDN Servers

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Performance change after deploying a local cache

Before: 90% below 500 kpbs throughput

After: 50% of users increased throughput above 500 kbps and 5% in excess of 20 Mbps

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Traffic increase after deploying a local cache

As performance improved, usage doubled within three months

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Various flavors of transit…

- If you do not have a on-net cluster or peering with us, you get served via transit

- If you have an on-net cluster we have to fill the cache, this is aprox. 20% or less of your regular transit requirements for Akamai traffic.

- If we deploy at an IX - We need transit to fill the cache- Transit in Africa is quite expensive so it does often not make sense

economically- We need a transit “sponsor” to enable the cost savings and the performance

improvements for all IX members-> This is a win – win situation for all participants!!!

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Questions?

Email: ck@akamai.com