Akamai vs Allot

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a content delivery network or CDN and cloud services provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Akamai's content delivery network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15 and 30 percent of all web traffic. The company operates a network of servers around the world and rents capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster by distributing content from locations close to the user. Over the years their customers have included Apple, Facebook, Bing, Twitter and healthcare.gov. When a user navigates to the URL of an Akamai customer, their browser is redirected to one of Akamai's copies of this website, almost entirely invisible to the vast majority of its users.

Allot Communications is a provider of IP service optimization solutions for service providers, carriers, and enterprises based in Hod HaSharon, Israel. Allot Communications was founded in 1996, by Michael Shurman and Yigal Jacoby, who served as chief executive and chairman until 2006. In November 2003, Deloitte & Touche named Allot the fourth-fastest growing company on its Israel Technology Fast 50 list. This ranking represented revenue growth of nearly 1,900% in a year's time.