Singapore – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced a strategic partnership agreement with China Telecom Corporation Limited’s cloud division, CT Cloud. CT Cloud offers quality cloud services to customers. As part of the strategic partnership, CT Cloud has agreed to offer an integrated solution incorporating Akamai’s full suite of media delivery, web performance, and cloud security offerings with its own Cloud services to Chinese businesses looking to grow their global web presence. In addition, the partnership is designed to enable close cooperation between the two companies in the areas of technology and network access, thus strengthening Akamai’s China CDN offering for accelerating content from global customers to Chinese consumers.

“With trade in and out of China continuing to increase, Chinese enterprises require a high performing, secure, and always available Web presence to compete in today’s multi-national marketplace,” said Wu Xiangdong, General Manager of CT Cloud. “Enterprise web infrastructure must be agile and scalable, providing users with a consistently fast and reliable experience. Our choice is to partner with Akamai to provide our enterprise customers with superior Internet content delivery across the globe.”

Under the partnership, CT Cloud plans to leverage Akamai for content delivery network (CDN) technology that will be available for the delivery of its Cloud services. Akamai enables operators to deploy a highly scalable, completely turnkey CDN that leverages the same technologies found within the Akamai Intelligent PlatformTM.

“China Telecom is one of the largest Internet service providers in China, serving the global Internet market,” said Sanjay Singh, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Asia Pacific & Japan, Akamai. “We’re excited to complement CT Cloud’s solutions with Akamai services to tap into the fast-growing China cloud and CDN market. Akamai sees increased demand for delivering content to Chinese Internet users from global customers.