Akamai to Provide Video Delivery for Cannes Film Festival

This Tuesday (on May 15, 2012), Akamai Technologies, the leading provider of cloud based web optimization services and Content Delivery Network, announced that its Akamai HD Network would be used for providing online video coverage of the 65th Annual Cannes International Film Festival to all the mobile and website viewers, who visit the official Cannes International Film Festival website.

While Akamai has been associated with optimizing web content for Cannes Film Festivals since 2000, last year, Akamai had been selected to deliver the movie trailers and certain on-demand videos for smart phones and tablet devices. Based on its proven success, this year the Akamai HD Network would be leveraged to deliver not only the new films and trailers, but also the red carpet events along with other presentations and interviews to the online audience in a high-performing and scalable fashion.

At its end, Akamai mentioned that it was happy with the deal and was honored to be a part of the Cannes Festival by helping deliver the rich-media content to the online viewers.