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Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Edge Platform

Akamai·Vinay Kanitkar·about 1 month ago
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Over the past 20 years, we've seen a lot of growth at Akamai. When I started here, we used to have traffic peaks of almost 200 Mbps. From that fledgling startup, Akamai has grown to such a scale that we almost doubled network capacity in 2020 and were able to serve peaks of almost 200 Tbps. In short, just like the internet, Akamai has undergone quite the evolution. But as we've grown, so have our environmental impacts. In fact, the internet as a whole is responsible for more than 2% of global emissions -- the same impact as the airline industry. Our online streaming, learning, working, shopping, and playing habits have all started to add up. At Akamai, we understand these impacts and do our best to mitigate them, but it is no easy feat. The complicating factor is not the choice to make our network more sustainable -- that's a no-brainer.…

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