Akamai is a $300 million public company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. If you use the Internet for anything - to download music or software, check the headlines, book a flight - you've probably used Akamai's services without even knowing it. Akamai's technology - at its core, applied mathematics and algorithms - has transformed the chaos of the Internet into a predictable, scalable, and secure platform for business and entertainment. The Akamai EdgePlatform comprises 20,000 servers deployed in 71 countries that continually monitor the Internet - traffic, trouble spots and overall conditions. Akamai uses that information to intelligently optimize routes and replicate content for faster, more reliable delivery.

Akamai's San Diego division focuses on the company's Stream OS solution which ensures that media companies and content owners deliver media flawlessly on the web. The content owners have a single point of control for producing, publishing and delivering rich media, and essential reporting tools with Akamai. The development environment for Stream OS is LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP).

In early 2006, the division was experiencing explosive growth with clients such as Universal Music Group, EMI Music, the NBA, the NHL and CBS Sportsline. Akamai then decided to augment its core US team with an offshore team. VivánTech assigned a team of dedicated developers and support personnel to the task. The VivánTech team for Akamai consists of an onsite senior architect/PM, an offshore team leader and five developers for a total of seven. The offshore team leader was brought to Akamai for hands-on training for a month. He then returned to VivánTech's India Office and trained the rest of the developers on the internals of the Akamai's Stream OS software. The seven-people dedicated team started helping the core US development team of Akamai with software development, as well as testing. The activities have been taking place onshore and offshore with software migrations, as well as technical support which is clearing support tickets by fixing software issues or developing enhancements in Stream OS.