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Akamai Technologies last week announced it is expanding its Web application-acceleration services to include any IP-based application, including VoIP
Akamai, a content-delivery network service provider based in Cambridge, Mass., has been delivering Web application-acceleration services since 2005. However, the company's new IP Application Accelerator is its first product that covers every enterprise application delivered over IPNeil Cohen,Akamai's product line manager, says the new service will let companies speed up all their IP applications, reduce their operating expenditures and boost their productivity
The accelerator works through a program called SureRoute, which continually scours the Web for the fastest and most reliable path to an origin server, much like a traffic helicopter that reports on which roads are clogged and which are open during rush hour. Cohen says this method of routing Internet traffic to the fastest path...