Akamai Technologies Inc and AT&T Inc Forge Global Strategic Alliance to Provide Content Delivery Network Solutions

Akamai Technologies Inc and AT&T Inc announced a strategic alliance to deliver a global suite of content delivery network (CDN) solutions to companies. Under the terms of the agreement, Akamai will deploy CDN servers at the edge of AT&T's IP network and in AT&T facilities throughout the United States . With the deployment of Akamai's CDN infrastructure within AT&T's network infrastructure, end customers are expected to benefit from more efficient content routing and better delivery of digital content, video and Web applications, resulting in a better end-user experience. AT&T will transfer its existing CDN operations, customers and service to the Akamai platform in 2013. The companies have also agreed to dedicate shared resources including technical support, customer care, marketing and professional services support.