Vendor Sheet
Akamai Global Traffic Management
This product brief introduces Akamai Global Traffic Management (GTM), a cloud-based intelligent traffic management service that improves application availability, resiliency, and performance through Internet-aware load balancing. Unlike traditional hardware load balancers, GTM continuously evaluates real-time Internet conditions, data center health, and customer-defined policies to direct users to the optimal application endpoint. Features include automatic failover, geographic routing, weighted traffic distribution, policy-based routing, load feedback, and support for enterprise data centers, cloud environments, and Akamai delivery services. Backed by a 100% SLA, GTM helps organizations reduce downtime, optimize response times, simplify infrastructure management, and improve user experien
