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Shorter distances and faster loading times with Akamai@SWITCH

It is annoying to experience long waiting times when surfing the web or performing downloads. There are many websites that lose a great deal of their interest for users on account of this. SWITCH has greatly improved on this situation by connecting its customers up to Akamai's network.

On call anywhere in the world
SWITCH provides a total of eighteen servers for handling the IT services provided by Akamai. These are part of Akamai's worldwide network and they hold contents used by numerous popular websites around the world in a readily available form. The advantages for SWITCH's customers include faster loading times and lower costs, since this technique reduces the volume of internet data traffic needing to be exchanged with other networks.

Active behind the scenes
Only part of a page's content (such as embedded images, documents, software downloads and video streams) are loaded from the nearest Akamai server. The fact that a given website has called data from SWITCH's Akamai servers will not even be noticed by most users most of the time!