Akamai Adaptive Media Delivery

Akamai’s Adaptive Media Delivery is optimized for adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming to provide a high-quality viewing experience across the broad variety of network types — fixed or mobile — at varying connection speeds. Built on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, Adaptive Media Delivery provides superior scalability, reliability, availability, and reach.

The solution securely delivers prepared, pre-segmented HTTP based live and on-demand streaming media, including support for the following video and music formats:
- HTTP live streaming (HLS)
- Microsoft smooth streaming (MSS)
- Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH)
- Common media application format (CMAF)

While Adaptive Media Delivery is both workflow- and origin storage-agnostic, Akamai’s complementary Media Services Live and NetStorage or Cloud Wrapper can be combined with Adaptive Media Delivery for an efficient, high-quality streaming media solution.

Reliability, Capacity, and Scale:
Deliver high-quality streams globally with a trusted partner that has set benchmarks for performance and reliability at scale. When a streaming event or over-the-top (OTT) service must succeed, the world’s most successful brands turn to Akamai’s Adaptive Media Delivery.

Quality Through Technology, Innovation, and Experience:
Since 1998, Akamai’s CDN market success has supported continuous investment in network capacity and technology innovations, to stay ahead of online audience demand.

Proximity — Closeness Counts:
Even the highest-quality networks are subject to the Internet’s realities of latency, congestion, and packet loss, which can significantly limit online video quality. Akamai has the most pervasive CDN, which minimizes the impact of network congestion for consistent viewing experiences. With approximately 256,000 servers in 137 countries and nearly 1,600 networks around the world, Akamai remains closer to the audience, for the lowest latency and highest quality.