Customer Success Story
Akamai expands internal backbone for its intelligent edge platform
Akamai helps retailers, banks, streaming video services, game publishers, and many other organizations bring their digital experiences closer to their customers—and keep threats farther away. As the world’s largest edge platform, Akamai offers its customers unrivaled capacity, scale, and intelligence.
Akamai relies on Juniper routing and switching for its internal transport and data center networks.
65 Tbps
Innovative, software-defined, up to 65-terabit-per-second network, around the world covering 65 cities and 5 continents.
Leverages Junos OS Evolved for Metro connectivity
Runs Junos operating system on whitebox switches for greater choice of hardware.
Powering and protecting life online
The pandemic magnified the importance of great digital connections in our daily lives. Ever since the virus first swept the world, organizations have supercharged their focus on building and delivering digital experiences.
And that makes Akamai’s role in powering and protecting life online more critical than ever.
Akamai’s global infrastructure delivers daily peak traffic averaging more than 100 terabits per second, and reached a record peak of 200 terabits per second in 2021. Half of the Fortune 500 run their digital services through the Akamai platform, as do 19 of the top 20 commerce retailers in the U.S. and the top 5 global streaming video services, according to Akamai.
An agile backbone enables delivery of digital experiences
As a proven innovator on a global scale, Akamai’s network spans more than 4200 points of presence and connects to 1400 ISP and carrier networks in 135 countries.
Akamai uses the high-density, compact Juniper PTX10003 Packet Transport Router for its internal backbone.
Akamai leverages the very dense, highly scalable Juniper QFX10002 line of Switches as well as Junos OS running on whitebox switches to create a flexible network at its points of presence. Running the disaggregated Junos OS on whitebox switches provides Akamai with a highly scalable, agile, and automated data center fabric on its choice of hardware.
Akamai is an early adopter of running Junos OS Evolved on its PTX platforms. This implementation provides Akamai with a unified network operating system that enables the cloud-scale reliability, agility, and open programmability needed to accelerate service deployment and innovation.
Deftly handled 12 months of traffic growth in a single month
Akamai’s software-defined network delivers massive scale and efficiency, allowing the company to rapidly adapt to its customers’ ever-changing content consumption habits and volumes.
That agility was tested in March 2020, when Akamai saw a year’s worth of traffic growth in a single month. Akamai rapidly scaled its complex global infrastructure to meet record-breaking demand for streaming media and gaming, and the sudden shift of working and learning from home.
The Products
QFX10002
QFX10002 fixed-configuration switches are very dense, highly scalable platforms designed for today’s most demanding data center, campus, and routing environments. They’re loaded with power and functionality, all housed in a compact, 2 U form factor.
PTX10003
The PTX10003 Packet Transport Router offers on-demand scalability for critical core and peering functions. With high-density 100GbE, 200GbE, and 400GbE ports, operators can meet high-volume demands with efficiency, programmability, and performance at scale.
Junos OS
The Junos operating system runs in Juniper Networks routing, switching, security and whitebox hardware products to create a consistent operational experience over network infrastructure end to end.
Published October 2021
