Delivery Man
Akamai CEO Tom Leighton runs a company that works in the background to ensure that the Internet remains fast and secure.
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THE next time you switch on a Netflix or Amazon Prime video and marvel at the picture and sound quality, tip your hat to these pioneer video streaming services that have redefined what watching TV means. But at the same time, also doff your hat to Akamai Technologies, a company that you may have never heard about.
That's because it works behind the scenes to ensure there is minimal degradation in the quality of the transmission as it winds its way through the crowded lanes and bylanes of the Internet to your screen, from company servers situated in another part of the globe.
Tom Leighton, one of Akamai's co-founders and the chief executive officer, explains that the company's core business is running a content delivery network over the cloud with a network of servers around the world. Akamai uses these servers to distribute content - the so-called traffic on the Internet.
