Case Study: iRacing achieves fast, reliable, secure global game downloads and 40% traffic growth with Akamai Technologies

iRacing Satisfies Simulated Racing Enthusiasts and Professionals Around the World with Fast Downloads

iRacing is a subscription-based, global motorsports simulation that delivers frequent game releases and large patches to a passionate community of real-world racers and fans across 200+ countries. Its core challenge was reliably and quickly distributing hundreds-of-megabyte updates to tens of thousands of users on an aggressive release cadence while preventing unauthorized downloads and protecting intellectual property.

iRacing integrated Akamai’s Download Delivery and NetStorage to offload global distribution, automatically scale for traffic surges, and simplify update delivery regardless of user location, while implementing a three-way handshake authentication to block unauthorized access. The partnership enabled 40% year-over-year online traffic growth, supported ~60,000 monthly active customers, protected game assets, avoided building a global CDN, and gave iRacing confidence to scale further.

iRacing

Chris Page

SVP of Technology