CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai (NASDAQ:
AKAM), the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering
digital experiences, today unveiled Edge Cloud, a solution line
that leverages the power of the Akamai edge platform to streamline
and secure the delivery of data to connected devices and
in-application messaging at scale. Edge Cloud is designed to serve
the needs of businesses bringing billions of endpoints online as
part of the IoT connected device revolution and further boost the
adoption and power of in-application messaging.
Solves Critical Scale and Operational Challenges
According to IoT Analytics Research, by 2025, approximately 22
billion connected devices will be sending data across the Internet.
In addition, billions of application instances will be sending
trillions of messages, and these endpoints represent both vast
opportunities and challenges for businesses in terms of harnessing,
distributing and protecting the data.
From car makers to hotel operators, virtually every industry is
incorporating endpoints in the form of connected devices and
applications into their business strategies, capitalizing on the
ubiquity of Internet access. However, building and managing the
infrastructure required to support, scale and secure these
experiences can be incredibly time-, cost- and resource-intensive
for organizations and not a part of their core competency.
"Akamai is investing to extend its network capabilities with the
goal of meeting the unique needs of the growing IoT device and
application messaging markets," said Craig
Adams, senior vice president and general manager, Web
Performance and Security, Akamai Technologies. "Delivering massive
amounts of data across the globe securely is in Akamai's DNA. We
are focused on developing technology designed to scale, simplify
and secure the way IoT and application data is delivered to
endpoints."
Offers Global Scale and Connectivity for Data
Management
The Edge Cloud solution line provides global
scale that other data platforms for IoT and messaging lack. Most
vendors designed their networks to serve the early adopters where
scale, manageability and performance were not necessarily a
concern. As more use cases emerge for IoT and in-application
messaging, such as Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), the
need to offer connectivity for billions of devices, real-time data
delivery and capabilities that allow for easier data management are
a requirement.
IoT Edge Connect, a new product within the Edge Cloud solution
line, tackles these challenges head on by offering a secure
framework. Both resource-constrained IoT devices and applications
using MQTT for messaging can send or publish information about a
given topic to a server that functions as an MQTT message
broker.
IoT Edge Connect offers:
- Scalability: IoT Edge Connect is architected to scale to
support hundreds of millions of endpoints and 10-times more
messages than other IoT or in-app messaging cloud solutions. The
service reduces device battery drain and optimizes data delivery
speed and volume.
- Ease of use: Because the service is designed as one
continuous global service (logical service) and is fully integrated
with an all-in-one data stream, distributed database and a key
value store, operations are simplified across the globe.
- Security: End-to-end mutual authentication is designed
to ensure secure communication between connected endpoints and the
Akamai Edge Cloud, while the fully-managed solution also supports
data isolation requirements.
- Reliability: Businesses can easily and efficiently take
advantage of MQTT. In fact, the service is the only International
Standard Organization-compliant cloud broker of the major cloud
providers with all three levels of Quality of Service (QoS).
With IoT Edge Connect, developers can enable low-latency
interactions with millions of endpoints and process data in
real-time. Customers using the service can reduce network, compute
and database build out, reduce security breaches and improve
manageability, avoiding the need to develop and maintain
proprietary and costly IoT and in-app messaging networks.
"Akamai believes that we are offering the next generation of
messaging with scalability, operational simplicity and security,
providing a turn-key solution that allows customers to focus on
their core business rather than integrating and managing discreet
but necessary components for messaging," said Lior Netzer, vice president and CTO, IoT,
Akamai. "With the launch of IoT Edge Connect, we're harnessing the
power of the Edge and bringing it to the next frontier of connected
devices and applications."
To learn more about Edge Cloud and IoT Edge Connect, visit this
link or join us at Akamai Edge World to learn more about our new
solutions.
About Akamai
Akamai secures and delivers digital
experiences for the world's largest companies. Akamai's intelligent
edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the
cloud, so customers and their businesses can be fast, smart, and
secure. Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realize
competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power
of their multi-cloud architectures. Akamai keeps decisions, apps
and experiences closer to users than anyone — and attacks and
threats far away. Akamai's portfolio of edge security, web and
mobile performance, enterprise access and video delivery solutions
is supported by unmatched customer service, analytics and 24/7/365
monitoring. To learn why the world's top brands trust Akamai, visit
www.akamai.com, blogs.akamai.com, or @Akamai on Twitter.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act
This release contains information about future
expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that
constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe
harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those
indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of
various important factors including, but not limited to, failure of
the IoT market to develop as expected, changes to Akamai's
investment strategy, inability of the newly-introduced
solution to operate as expected, provide the potential benefits
described or address intended market needs, a failure of Akamai's
network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in
Akamai's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form
10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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