CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Attendees of Mobile
World Congress 2015 will have the opportunity to experience
firsthand how new technologies being developed by Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) have the potential to externalize
mobile network assets to the cloud and allow Mobile Network
Operators (MNOs) to more easily develop new and smarter mobile CDN
services. The technology and solutions Akamai will be demonstrating
build on 15 years of making the Internet fast, reliable and secure,
and are intended to illustrate how the company is applying its
Internet expertise to the cellular network, all with the goal of
helping MNOs and others in the mobile ecosystem provide an
exemplary subscriber experience.
Throughout the event, Akamai (Hall 3 – Booth 3B30) will conduct
several live demonstrations of the technology and solutions being
developed by the company's Emerging Mobile Business Unit.
Demonstrations planned for Mobile World Congress 2015 include:
- Predictive Video over Cellular: A live
demonstration of the Predictive Video over Cellular application,
which is designed to make use of cellular load prediction and
mobile device storage to pre-position short-form videos to the
mobile subscriber's device using off-peak cellular capacity or a
Wi-Fi connection. The demonstration is intended to showcase a
superior video performance by providing an "Already here in HD"
video experience that launches immediately upon request with no
buffering, stalling, or slow playback to irritate the viewer.
- Mobile Performance Analytics: An interactive
demonstration showing performance of mobile networks from the
perspective of the real end-user designed to use actual Quality of
Experience (QoE) data points captured from users across all mobile
networks. The demonstration is intended to show network performance
as compared anonymously to other networks in a geographical
location. Attendees can generate a QoE score based on factors
such as; bit rate, frame rate, start-up time, number of rebuffers
and page load time.
- Akamai Mobile Edge: A live demonstration, in
conjunction with Cisco designed to showcase Network Aware Mobile
Video Performance capabilities enabled by the Akamai Mobile Edge
platform. The demonstration is intended to highlight how network
awareness can be used to deliver an optimized experience for video
content.
In addition, Will Law, chief
architect, Media Engineering, Akamai will participate as a featured
panelist for the conference session, Content Evolution for the
Multi Form Factor Future. Taking place Tuesday, March 3, 2015 from 14:00 – 15:30 (local
time), the session will address the ways new devices and
technologies are changing the way we create, consume and promote
content. This session will explore how to future-proof a content
strategy and provide high quality, targeted content across a
multitude of emerging form factors. Featuring a breakthrough
collaboration between Hollywood
and the mobile industry, the panel plans to demonstrate how
consumers can own and share 4K quality digital movies across
multiple devices in a new motion picture distribution model.
About Akamai
Akamai® is the leading provider of cloud
services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and
business applications. At the core of the Company's solutions is
the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ providing extensive reach, coupled
with unmatched reliability, security, visibility and expertise.
Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly
mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling
enterprises to securely leverage the cloud. To learn more about how
Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation in a hyperconnected
world, please visit www.akamai.com or blogs.akamai.com, and follow
@Akamai on Twitter.
Contacts:
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Robert
Morton
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Tom Barth
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Media
Relations
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Investor
Relations
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617-444-3641
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617-274-7130
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rmorton@akamai.com
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tbarth@akamai.com
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