CDN Akamai expands service offerings to drive growth

Content delivery network Akamai made its name early on in terms of downloads and media, and while those are still important parts of the company's business, more than half of its business now is what the CDN calls "value added services," things like application acceleration and cloud acceleration. Bobby Blumofe, senior vice president and general manager of the Cambridge, Mass.-based company's Network Division, talks with FierceTelecom about the challenges and opportunities arising as the Internet continues to expand. Article