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 Akamai enters the world of Forex (FX market) with EasyForex
Paris, March 10, 2009 - Akamai, the leading global distribution services and accelerating content and applications online, today announced the use of the Web Application Accelerator solution by Easy-Forex www.easy-forex.com , a leader in currency trading in over 150 countries. With this service, the trading platform of Easy-Forex offers consistent performance to all users in the world and remains available even during periods of high load on the platform by the increase in the number of requests . Since the introduction of Web Application Accelerator, over 70% of the requests of the platform Easy-Forex routes pass through the Akamai. Akamai has increased by 50% the performance of the platform. Easy-Forex can now better address the ever increasing volumes of trade on the FX market. "We found that significant latency and packet loss a strong impact on users of the platform in the world and especially in Australia, the Middle East and China, said Uri Strauss, Director of Operations 'Easy-Forex. The loading time of pages and refresh rate have a direct impact on the potential gains from our users. " 

 

More than 3000 billion dollars are traded daily on the international currency market (FX market). Easy-Forex was one of the first platforms to offer an opportunity for traders to access the course, updated in real time, currency and jump commands. The data stream is constantly updated from Reuters and the traders are constant connection that the platform must constantly manage a large number of requests. Akamai's services operate from a global platform consisting of 40,000 servers, over 1000 network covering 70 countries. The Akamai's route optimization to direct user requests to the optimal Akamai server will identify the fastest route and most reliable way to recover data servers Easy-Forex, installed in the United States. A platform for online trading is essential to disseminate as quickly and reliably useful information to traders, giving them a competitive advantage. To Uri Strauss, the partnership between Akamai and Easy-Forex was able to provide consistent response times and better availability, which helps to increase the number of users around the globe, without having to be instead of expensive hardware. "We were able to significantly improve the performance of our application, it says. Transactions, despite their increased numbers, are more accomplished. This has helped to establish the leadership of Easy-Forex. " He concluded: "The performance remains our first priority. With Akamai, we have also gained other additional and unexpected benefits, including better security against denial of services. All of these improvements, we can now provide services without interruption. " "Easy-Forex has revolutionized the exchange of currencies in over 150 countries, said Henri d'Oriola, Regional Sales Manager Southern Europe at Akamai. With the help of Akamai, questions latency and packet loss and no longer arise, thanks to the Web Application Accelerator, Easy-Forex has been able to grow in confidence with a new trading platform , with new Web 2.0 and rich media content " About Easy-Forex Since 2001, Easy-Forex operates in over 150 countries and is registered in Australia, the United States and European Union. Its global headquarters is located in Limassol, Cyprus, and the company has nine offices around the world. For more information, please visit www.easy-forex.com. The Akamai Difference Akamai ® provides the only hosted service can stream all the content on the web but also more reliable and improve the performance of enterprise applications. Precursor to the spread of online content when it was created a decade ago, Akamai is now one of its customers the largest global companies covering all sectors. Effective alternative to centralized Web infrastructure, Akamai's global network is based on tens of thousands of dedicated servers that offer a unique perspective on the Internet and provide companies with the stature, reliability, insight and performance essential to the deployment of their business model and conduct their online activities. Akamai has been listed among the values ​​listed in the S & P 500 and NASDAQ 100. To experience The Akamai Difference, visit the website: www.akamai.com
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