Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn’t ‘Melt’ the Internet
Aug 18th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: TechnologyAs it turns out, Akamai is actually used for some, but not all of the cached content used on NBCOlympics.com — it hosts the “static” content such as the .JPG files and HTML. However, for all the heavy lifting, such as the streaming video, it’s all going through infrastructure hosted by Limelight Networks.