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Akamai and Cisco working together to optimize application delivery over hybrid WAN

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications, today announced plans for future integration of Akamai Unified Performance technology into the Cisco ISR-AX series of routers.

Both companies intend to co-develop enterprise network offerings, aimed at delivering the world's first enterprise WAN and Internet optimization solution to provide a secure, high-quality end user experience for both public and private cloud applications to all remote offices.

The two companies intend to combine the power of Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN), which includes Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) and Application Visibility and Control (AVC), with Akamai Unified Performance to extend the corporate data center and the Akamai Intelligent Platform into the branch, specifically to offload existing network links and improve performance for web and business critical applications.