Akamai's Edge Platform is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms. It is a network of more than 95,000 secure servers equipped with proprietary software and deployed in 71 countries that relies on applied mathematics and algorithms to help solve congestion and vulnerability problems on the Internet. These servers reside within approximately 1,900 of the world's networks monitoring the Internet in real time - gathering information about traffic, congestion, and trouble spots. Akamai uses this intelligence to optimize routes and replicate data dynamically to deliver content and applications more quickly, reliably, and securely.