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Media companies and digital content owners in search of a solution to improve their media content
About Adaptive Media Delivery
Akamai’s Adaptive Media Delivery is optimized for Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) streaming to provide a high-quality, secure viewing experience across the broad variety of network types — fixed or mobile — at varying connection speeds. Built on the Akamai Intelligent Platform™, Adaptive Media Delivery provides superior scalability, reliability, availability, and reach. Serve your content 100% of the time, aligning your brand with service predictability. Enhance your audience’s video playback quality with performance optimizations at the edge. Protect content with encryption, watermarking, access revocation, and enhanced proxy detection. Intelligently cache content close to viewers, offloading traffic from the origin infrastructure. Enable development teams to take advantage of serverless computing capabilities at the edge. Gain insights into key performance indicators, uncovering useful trends and engagement levels.
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Akamai Technologies
Founded: 1998
United States
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