<br>Senectus is correct.<br><br>You can get information about Akamai's services at <a href="http://www.akamai.com/en/html/services/overview.html">http://www.akamai.com/en/html/services/overview.html</a>. Basically, they put proxies in major datacenters/major ISP hubs around the world, and cache their customers sites there - so that, for instance, when a Telstra customer visits the site of an Akamai customer, the page is served off a Telstra server directly on Telstra's backbone, ensuring very fast response times for the user.
<br><br>There's nothing malicious about this at all. This is not something Telstra have done, it's something the sites you mentioned (<a href="http://cnn.com">cnn.com</a> et al) have paid large some of money to have done, so that you get a better service.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Senectus .</b> <<a href="mailto:senectus@gmail.com">senectus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
As far as I can tell, akamai technologies are an Internet<br>caching/streaming media delivery service that seem to be very popular<br>around the world.<br>They seem to have a very googlish philosophy about how they build<br>
their hardware, with lots of common sense redundancies and smart<br>designs, and they're so good at it they're world wide.<br><br>seems innocent enough to me.<br><br><br>--<br><a href="http://www.modmeup.net">www.modmeup.net
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