World Cup raises bar


“Over this year, we’ve streamed a lot of major events across the globe including the 56th Grammy Awards, the Super Bowl and the Sochi 2014 Olympics. And we’ve been seeing a continuous increase in everything from traffic, usage and consumption,” says Nakul Srinivas, product marketing manager for media in Asia Pacific and Japan at Akamai.

“The World Cup is the ­largest live event that Akamai has helped to deliver so far. Our ­customers ­included 50 World Cup rights ­holders and 25 different ­broadcasters across 80 countries.”

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