Download Delivery is a reliable, high performance file-based content delivery solution optimized to deliver large (>100MB) file-based content such as software, games, video, patches or firmware. It is built to provide scalability, availability, and performance and comes with a self-serviceable management portal to manage the entire download process (with a reporting UI that provides clear and comprehensive metrics to monitor usage).

Download Delivery Benefits:
-100% uptime of your downloads through redundancy and fault tolerance.
-Improve download completion rates through faster performance.
-Scale globally on demand without costly build-out by leveraging the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform.
-Protect your content through token authentication and content targeting.
-Manage and control your download offering with rate features like fast metadata activation and purge, rate limiting, and APIs.
-Integrate Download Delivery management into your own systems through APIs.

Reliability and Scale
- Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform - Delivers 50 Tbps on average and a record of more than 100 Tbps
- 100% Uptime SLA - Download Delivery will serve content 100% of the time
- Site Failover - Provides continued delivery in the event of an origin failover Performance
- Advanced Cache Control - Intelligently caches content close to end users while offloading traffic on the origin infrastructure
- Tiered Distribution - Additional caching layer to further optimize origin offload and improve download performance for end users
- QUIC - A UDP-based transport protocol which can improve download performance and consistency
- HTTP/2 - Protocol provides many improvements over previous versions in terms of efficiency, performance, and security
- IPv6 - Support for the latest communication protocol including dual stack IPv4/IPv6l

Security
- Standard TLS - HTTPS delivery over custom certs using SNI
- TLS: Shared Cert - HTTPS delivery using a SAN certificate from Akamai and a shared domain
- Access Control - Manages security controls that govern end-user access to content
- Token Authentication - Secures premium content from unauthorized access by preventing link sharing
- Cloud Authentication - Delivers content from various cloud providers using simple authentication configurations

Customer UI & Self Serviceablility
- Property Manager - A guided, self-service configuration tool that enables customers to control and manage their products and services
- Log Delivery - Access to logs generated from traffic on the platform configurable via the Luna Control portal
- Media Reports - Insights into download performance and usage