Akamai's Global Traffic Management (GTM) is a sophisticated solution that optimizes web and mobile performance for businesses experiencing growth in their user base. By employing intelligent load-balancing techniques, GTM efficiently distributes traffic across multiple data centers, ensuring high availability and improved user experience. The system adapts to real-time network conditions, server health, and custom business rules to direct users to the best-performing data center, resulting in consistent performance, reduced latency, and enhanced reliability for online services.

Key Features

Intelligent Load Balancing GTM uses advanced algorithms to distribute traffic efficiently across multiple data centers.

• Real-time adaptation to network conditions and server health
• Custom business rules integration for optimized routing

Global Network Utilization Leverages Akamai's extensive worldwide network for improved performance.

• Reduced latency through strategic traffic routing
• Enhanced scalability to support growing user bases

High Availability Ensures continuous service availability through smart traffic management.

• Automatic failover to healthy data centers
• Load distribution to prevent server overload

Benefits

Improved User Experience GTM enhances the overall quality of service for end-users.

• Faster response times due to optimized routing
• Consistent performance across different geographical locations

Increased Reliability The solution enhances the stability of web and mobile applications.

• Minimized downtime through intelligent traffic distribution
• Resilience against network issues and server failures

Scalability GTM supports business growth by efficiently managing increasing traffic.

• Seamless handling of traffic spikes
• Easy integration of new data centers or cloud resources