MTV Hope for Haiti Concert M streams served, $61 million raised. MTV Networks came to Akamai with a plan to hold a benefit concert for earthquake victims in Haiti within one week. They wanted to broadcast it online as well as on television, and their goal was to deliver the best possible streaming experience while handling any size audience. Akamai helped make the concert a success, delivering 100,000 concurrent streams during the event and more than 5.8 million streams throughout the weekend. 9.2 Customer Examples for Application Delivery Akamai‘s application delivery services combine Akamai‘s performance optimization, overlay network, EdgeComputing, and content delivery capabilities to accelerate the entire range of Web and IP-based applications. We look at a sampling of customer use cases Enterprise applications.Businesses and SaaS providers turn to Akamai to help them overcome performance and reliability challenges for their mission-critical enterprise applications. Customers typically report global performance improvements in the range of 100% to 700%. 10 An independent report by Tolly Enterprises [23], for example, tested response times seen by live users completing tasks using various applications running on a Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop solution. Tolly found Akamai provided improved performance by 170% to 700% from different locations in Asia. For enterprises, these improvements can translate into significant dollars through increases in revenue and operational efficiency. An IDC research report [20] determined that organizations using Akamai‘s application acceleration services for the enterprise applications enjoyed an average annual benefit of $7 million on an average investment of $174,000.
