Cloud Computing: Akamai service adapts websites for mobile devices
October 9, 2012
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.
Content delivery accelerator Akamai Techologies has launched a service for adapting websites to the device used to access them, which it says also simplifies the upgrade to IPv6. The service, Aqua Ion, has been shaped by the increasing diversity of devices used to access websites, and is composed of technologies Akamai has acquired and developed in-house.
The most important addition is the front-end optimization, which to a large extent is the result of Akamai’s acquisition of Blaze Software. "Blaze’s technology has been re-engineered to have it scale across the Akamai platform," said Joel Reid, Akamai sales manager for Enterprise in the U.K. and Ireland…
The front-end optimization allows Akamai’s network edge to decide how a website should be presented depending on what device and network is used to access it, all based on a set of pre-defined rules…
Read more from the source @ http://www.infoworld.com/d/networking/akamai-service-adapts-websites-mobile-devices-204358