Safety

The Akamai NetSession Interface must protect the user's privacy and be
secure from Internet threats.

• Privacy – A user's personal information must not be captured. The information that Akamai does capture is similar to a web server and that information is utilized for troubleshooting and network performance monitoring only. Please see Akamai's privacy principles for more information.
• Security – Akamai must build secure software which will not add security vulnerabilities to a users' system operating environment. Akamai remplit cet engagement grâce à des systèmes rigoureux de prévention, de contrôle et de surveillance des opérations 24h/24, 7j/7. Please notify us of any concerns via our feedback form.

Fairness

Chaque utilisateur de la technologie réseau de bureau d'Akamai doit être traité avec équité. Ceci signifie que nous devons mettre en place des règles de fonctionnement équitables pour l'ensemble du réseau, de sorte que le logiciel n'abuse des ressources système d'aucun utilisateur.

• Politeness – the Akamai NetSession Interface is designed to run as a background networking service. This means that it should not interfere with or affect the user's daily system activity. By developing our networking technology with this philosophy we strive to make software that helps power great applications, but does not get in the way of the normal system usage and experience.
• Idle resources only – Available upstream sources are only those systems which are idle or utilizing minimal network resources.
• La connexion permanente des clients permet la réalisation d'un réseau « ultra-poli ». Tous les clients sont connectés en permanence, et disponibles pour envoyer des données lorsque votre système est inactif. This means there is massive redundancy of peer caches on the network; with such redundancy in resources, the network can be selective about which idle resources to pull from. Tous les clients sur le réseau obéissant aux mêmes protocoles et aux mêmes règles, nous pouvons donc faire fonctionner un système de diffusion très « poli », qui optimise les performances de téléchargement du réseau mondial sans interrompre les utilisateurs et les machines occupés.

Quality

L'interface Akamai NetSession permet de fournir la meilleure qualité de contenu et d'expérience sur Internet. Voici nos paramètres clés d'évaluation :

• Speed – Always "Akamai speed." The Akamai desktop networking technology is backed by the high-performance Akamai content delivery network. En puisant simultanément à partir de jusqu'à 40 sources, Akamai obtient les meilleures performances de téléchargement et de streaming.
• Reliability – Links always work. Downloads and streaming services are always up and the Akamai Edge consisting of thousands of servers around the world make sure of it.
• Support – Quick turnaround on consumer questions.
• Experience – Akamai has designed its client technology to enable compelling software and media applications. Akamai's client-side capabilities include background downloading, download management, progressive media downloads, streaming of HD quality content both live and on-demand.
• Content – To the user, content is king. Akamai delivers 30% of the Internet's content, ensuring that the user can access some of the best, most desired content on the Net. Some of the Internet's largest content providers are working with Akamai's powerful desktop networking technology platform to further

Control

The client provides transparency into what the client is doing and the basic functionality to control it (turn on/off, etc.). Our goal is to provide users of the Akamai NetSession Interface comfort that the client is completely under his control.

• Knowledge – Akamai provides easy access to information on how Akamai's client technology works, what functions and capabilities it provides on the user's system, and a FAQ for top questions as well as resources/support for more advanced questions, feedback and troubleshooting.
• Transparency – The user has the capability to see what the client is doing on their system at any time.
• Politeness – The Akamai NetSession Interface respects the user's computing resources and is so polite that it should never affect the user's activity on his system
• Control – It is imperative for the user to have absolute control over his system and its resources. L'objectif est que l'utilisateur n'ait jamais besoin de désactiver l'interface Akamai NetSession, et que celle-ci n'exerce aucun impact sur l'utilisation du système, de quelque manière que ce soit. Mais dans tous les cas, l'utilisateur garde le contrôle.

The Akamai NetSession Interface provides this information and controls via the Control Panel (Windows) or System Preferences pane (Mac).