Akamai Technologies, Inc.
About Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AS32787) is the network of Prolexic, Akamai's DDoS protection service. Prolexic was a Florida based DDoS mitigation company that Akamai acquired in 2014.
How the network is used
- DDoS scrubbing: traffic of protected customers is routed through Akamai's scrubbing centers, where attacks are filtered out.
- Network protection: whole IP ranges of banks, governments and enterprises can be announced through this network during an attack.
Websites resolving to this network are protected by Akamai Prolexic; their real servers are located in the customers' own data centers. Akamai's content delivery edge uses separate networks such as AS20940.
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