Akamai Technologies needs to expand disperse its servers to various geographical regions in order to cater for the rapidly growing market demand for the internet. The congestion of the users of the internet is due to the increasing number of the people who have access to the internet compared to the rate at which the internet is expanding in capacity. The rate of users of the internet is highly increasing compared to the rate at which the internet is expanding its capacity. The main contributor to this effect is the rapid advancements in technology for instance, easy access to the internet through mobile phones and other devices due to the use internet access tools like WI-FI, which are cheap, compared to the former modes of internet connectivity.The increased number internet users therefore give a business opportunity for Akamai
Technologies need to venture in order to provide the access to the video links to reduce the congestion. The internet users will be attracted to video link sites, which are not congested so that they can access the content they want without waiting for long time loading the congested links. This therefore enables Akamai make money through these links and uses this opportunity to penetrate into the market. The video traffic has greatly increased necessitated the need for services of a company like Akamai in order to reduce the congestion.
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The software contents can be delivered over the internet using Akamai website. The user should therefore create an account to facilitate the transfer and sharing of documents and files all over the globe. The company has ventured into the provision of other business technological services, which are based on the location of the user and the use of Zip codes, business intelligence, disaster recovery as well as the content security. It may also provide other services like the traffic management in the whole globe. The company is also involved in the provision of services related to storage of files for both individuals as well as the institutions.
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Question 4
In peer-to-peer connection (P2P connection), there is a main database with computers of very high processing power and processing capacity for instance, mainframe computers. All the videos are stored in the central database, which is the server collecting any video that are added to the market. The other devices, which are, connected to the system acts as the clients, they now request for music, and video clips from the server. In this kind of network, there is a central management at the database and so the flow of videos is controllable. The systems manager manages all the resources at, music files and videos at the server and therefore, the content is not subject to any modification and so the customer gets quality videos. In this network, also there is a dedicated connection, so the transfer of videos from one device to another does not experience any collision, and so the clients receive what they request on a timely basis. In this networking when one device fails, communication cannot be interrupted for instance; if one of the client computers fails, the other computers can still communicate effectively.
Question 5
The internet users should be charged according to the amount of bandwidth they consume. The charges on the internet must not be based on the estimation otherwise other customers will be paying too much money and yet they use the internet so much. The use of internet varies, some customers use internet as an organization while others use as single individuals. There are organizations and individuals which do not need large bandwidth because they use internet for minor purpose like browsing, chatting among other small purposes. On the other hand, some organizations and individuals require very large bandwidth because their use of internet consumes large amounts. An customer for example who uses internet for e-commerce, transferring large files, uploading and downloading WebPages is likely to use more bandwidth than one who just browse in face book, listens to music among others.