Case Study: National Instruments achieves 48% faster global web performance with Akamai Technologies

Akamai Empowers National Instruments To Instantly Boost Web Application Responsiveness Around The World

National Instruments, a provider of software and hardware for engineers and scientists, relies on its website—which sees about two million visits per month and supports product configurators, eCommerce and technical downloads—for most sales and support interactions. With primary servers in Austin, TX, 75% of traffic came from outside the US and users in Europe and Asia experienced slow page loads and downloads (sometimes requesting DVDs instead), so the company needed consistent global performance without costly data center replication.

NI selected Akamai’s Web Application Accelerator and media delivery to improve global responsiveness. WAA was simple to deploy and, within a week, achieved more than a 48% average improvement in page load times, avoided an estimated $1M data-center expansion, and paved the way for faster software delivery, reduced support costs, increased international downloads and geo-restricted distribution for export compliance.

National Instruments

Brent Babin

Senior Group Manager of Web Platforms, National Instruments