Tom Leighton, Co-Founder and CEO of Akamai Technologies, delivers a keynote speech at the MassChallenge 2013 launch event at MassChallenge in Boston, MA on February 13, 2013. Tom discusses the story of the founding of Akamai, and how Akamai wouldn't exist without accelerator programs like MassChallenge. Watch the video of Dr. Leighton's Keynote: http://masschallenge.org/video/view/tom-leighton-masschallenge-2013-launch Learn more about Dr. Tom Leighton: http://www.akamai.com/html/about/management_tl.html

1. Global Innovation
Tom Leighton, Chief Executive Officer, Akamai Technologies

2. Managing a State of the Art Web Presence
• Web servers
• Local load balancers
• Application servers
• SSL and authentication servers
• Video streaming infrastructure
• Managing third party content
• Compression & connection
management servers
• IDS & IPS servers
• DNSSec & IPv6 support
• Mobile app infrastructure
• Redundant data centers & failover
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3. The Web: Simple on the Outside…
End-Users
Internet
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4. …but Problematic on the Inside
12,000 networks
connected by
peering points
(Cloud)
AT&T
Datacenters
End-Users
X
Level 3
X
Cogent
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5. The Akamai Solution
(Cloud)
AT&T
Datacenters
End-Users
X
Level 3
Akamai
Server
X
Cogent
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6. Evolution from Theory to Practice
Winter 1998: Incorporation
1995 – 1998:
Academic 1999 – 2001: 2004 – 2011: $1B
Research Bubble Mania Growing a Profitable Company Milestone
at MIT
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013+
2001 – 2003: The Bubble Burst
Road to $5B
Platform Innovation
Spring 1999: Akamai Goes Live & Global Expansion
Fall 1997 – Spring 1998: $50K Competition
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7. The Akamai Cloud Today
A Global Platform: Delivering 250,000+ Domains
• 100,000+ Servers • All top 60 eCommerce sites
• 1,100+ Networks DT• All top 30 M&E companies
(Cloud)
Datacenters • 650+ Cities • 9 of the top 10 banks
• 81 Countries • All branches of the U.S. military
End-Users
Accelerating Daily Traffic of:
L3
• 10+ Tbps
• 20+ million hits per second
• 1.5 trillion deliveries/day
• 50+ petabytes/day
• 10+ million concurrent streams
TV1.eu
15–30+% of Web Traffic
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8. Thank you!
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