Case Study: Confucius Institute Online achieves global live-class scalability and 100% availability with Akamai Technologies

Confucius Institute Online provides global 'Live Class' experience enabled by Akamai

Confucius Institute Online is a global Chinese-learning platform that offers interactive courses and real‑time “live class” experiences. To serve users in 128 countries it needed fast, highly available performance and instant scalability for rich, dynamic content—on a tight timeline—while avoiding slow page loads, site abandonment, and costly overseas IDC build‑out.

Akamai provided a full web performance suite (Dynamic Site Accelerator, static caching, dynamic/TCP and streaming acceleration) to speed and stabilize the site. The solution delivered about 5× faster performance, 100% availability, reduced overseas IDC costs, and on‑demand scalability to support 1,085 Confucius Classrooms and 143 Confucius Institute websites across 128 countries, enabling faster launches of live classes.

Confucius Institute Online

Qi Wen Min

Chief Technology Officer , Wuzhou Chinese Education Technology Company