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Obama swearing in sees Akamai streams peak!

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BANGALORE, iNDIA: Akamai Technologies, Inc. the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced online traffic statistics associated with live coverage of the Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of The United States.

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As the largest day ever for the delivery of concurrent live streaming over the Akamai EdgePlatform, the Company reported it delivered a peak of over 7 million active simultaneous streams (the majority being live streams) at approximately 12:15 p.m. ET today. A real-time view of streaming on the Akamai EdgePlatform can be seen at: http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz3.html.

“In addition to the historic nature of the Inauguration, it is now clear that this event has driven unprecedented demand from a global online audience,” said Robert Hughes, executive vice president of Global Sales, Services, and Marketing at Akamai. “With the Inauguration occurring during work-day hours in the US, we witnessed record numbers of live streams served in support of many leading news businesses.

"For an event of this scale, Akamai’s globally-distributed EdgePlatform is unique in its ability to bypass congestion points on the Internet, and to ensure a reliable, high-quality experience for our customers. While this event was supported flawlessly for our broadcast customers, it is also important to point out that Akamai continued to deliver perfect quality of service for the remainder of our 2,800 enterprise customers. This is just the beginning of what is possible when broadcasting live to audiences around the world.”

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Today also represented a single-day peak on the Akamai EdgePlatform for concurrent live streams utilizing Adobe Flash technology, serving over 800 Gbps of Flash streaming.

“It is an honor to provide the underlying media technology required for leading broadcasters and media organizations, as they delivered live online coverage of this momentous event,” said Jim Guerard, vice president and general manager of Dynamic Media at Adobe. “With so many viewers eager to see the ceremonies and hear the first words of our 44th President, we knew the combination of Adobe Flash technology and Akamai would bring this inauguration to the broadest possible online audience.”

Total traffic on the Akamai network surpassed a rate of more than 2 terabits per second at approximately 12:15 p.m. ET. Akamai also delivered over 12,000,000 requests per second at the same time.

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