Akamai adds Windows DRM

In what the company describes as an effort to make it easier for customers to deliver rich media over the Internet, content delivery specialist Akamai Technologies is enhancing its services by integrating digital rights management into its portfolio of offerings.

Akamai today is expected to roll out Akamai Media Delivery 2.0, which enables users to deliver rich media, as well as manage and store digital certificates and keys that keep that media secure.

To do that, Akamai is integrating Windows Media Digital Rights Management into its service.

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In what the company describes as an effort to make it easier for customers to deliver rich media over the Internet, content delivery specialist Akamai Technologies is enhancing its services by integrating digital rights management into its portfolio of offerings.

Akamai today is expected to roll out Akamai Media Delivery 2.0, which enables users to deliver rich media, as well as manage and store digital certificates and keys that keep that media secure.

To do that, Akamai is integrating Windows Media Digital Rights Management into its service.

"Our customers won't have any requirement to maintain licenses or license delivery servers," says Kieran Taylor, Akamai's director of product management. "So when they come to Akamai they will bypass all that capacity planning and all that infrastructure deployment."

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