Description

Akamai Global Traffic Manager is an application performance optimization and load balancing solution designed for application security teams. It enables users to manage load balancing configurations and diagnose problems with real-time data, route traffic according to geography, server status, and IP header information, direct requests to data centers based on preset percentage splits, make decisions based on real-time data center performance health and global Internet conditions, and forward user requests to the most appropriate data center. Features include web traffic allocation, site availability optimization, policy rules management, load feedback, and threat detection.