Global Traffic Management

Optimize app performance and avoid outages with intelligent load balancing.

“Akamai enabled us to manage global traffic more efficiently without having to deploy additional infrastructure.”
Yoon Dae-chul, IT Infrastructure Team Manager

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Drive consistent performance of apps, APIs, and content

Gain greater control over the user experience

Fine-tune traffic allocation. Set up sites and apps without disrupting current traffic.

Improve workflows with powerful APIs and DevOps

Manage load balancing configurations and diagnose problems with real-time data.

Forecast budgets accurately with no usage limits

Gain budgetary efficiency and predictability with no penalties for usage fluctuations.

Scalable, intelligent, policy-based load balancing

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Dynamic failover

Directs requests to alternate location upon failure at primary site, even across providers.

Policy based

Intelligently routes traffic according to geography, server status, and IP header information.

Load-based feedback

Enables best outcomes by routing based on real-time communication with data centers.

Optimal configurations

Manages load balancing configurations, with feedback and reports from real-time load data.

User-aware allocation

Leverages the EDNS standard to precisely, dynamically map end users to nearest data centers.

Fine-grained controls

Combines failover, policy-based intelligence, and weighted load balancing to allocate traffic.

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