Autonomous system
AS18717 AKAMAI-AS
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Akamai Technologies
cdn edge
One of Akamai's Autonomous Systems (AKAMAI-AS). Akamai runs one of the oldest
and most widely distributed CDNs, with edge servers embedded deep inside
thousands of networks.
What it's used for
- Caching and accelerating content, plus edge security, for large enterprises, media companies, banks, and software vendors.
Notable
- Akamai's model is extreme distribution — tens of thousands of edge servers inside ISP networks — so an Akamai IP is usually very close to the requester.
- One of several Akamai ASNs; the core network is [AS20940](https://asn.ipinfo.app/AS20940).
Interesting
- Akamai grew out of late-1990s MIT research on serving content reliably during massive traffic spikes ("flash crowds").
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Address space
Summary
This network announces no prefixes we can see.
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS18717- Registry name
- AKAMAI-AS
- Registrant
- Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@akamai.com
- Registered
- 2006-11-17
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere