Also see content
delivery.
For a Web
site, to akamaize (pronounced AHK-uh-myez) is to accelerate the delivery
of Web files by placing copies on servers closer to the user than the server that delivers the main
file for a Web page. To akamaize, a Web site uses the FreeFlow product from Akamai, a company that
has managed to persuade a number of its clients and other Web users to adopt the term. Essentially,
the FreeFlow process lets a Web site use Akamai's network of dispersed servers as a cache for
multimedia and other files that ordinarily slow down the time it takes to download the complete Web
page to a user. FreeFlow manages balancing traffic among different servers and identifying the
server that should be used for any specific request. Akamaizing is one particular company's
approach to what the industry calls content delivery.
This was last updated in September 1999
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