Case Study: Ankama achieves instant scalability for massive traffic spikes and 300% faster downloads with Akamai Technologies

Akamai Enables Online Game Publisher To Support Massive Traffic Spikes And Deliver Downloads 300% Faster

Ankama, a French independent game studio best known for MMORPG DOFUS (16 million players worldwide), faced severe traffic spikes when releasing game updates—often millions of simultaneous downloads that caused long wait times and strained infrastructure. The company needed instant scalability, better web performance, and a way to expand globally without deploying and managing dozens of additional servers.

Ankama adopted Akamai’s managed Download Delivery, Rich Media Accelerator (RMA) and IP Application Accelerator (IPA) solutions, which handled bursts exceeding 24 Gbps and scaled to millions of players instantly. Results included 200–300% faster downloads for large files, 65% faster dynamic content delivery, a smoother online gaming experience, avoided global server deployments and extra bandwidth purchases, and freed technical teams to focus on product improvements.

Ankama

Thomas Bahon

Director of Products, Ankama