[Mitworld] News: Akamai distributes MIT World videos

[MIT.WORLD]

November 2, 2004

Dear Friends of MIT World,


With the arrival of our fourth season, we want to share some new 
features at <http://mitworld.mit.edu>MIT World.

First, you can now access MIT World directly from the 
<http://mit.edu>MIT home page. Find it under the Education heading, 
next to OpenCourseWare.  Click on "video" and go directly to MIT 
World.

Second, the video content (which now includes more than 215 video 
events) is being distributed via 
<http://www.akamai.com/index_flash.html>Akamai's 15,000 servers 
worldwide.  Akamai operates the world's largest distributed network 
of its kind - with servers in 65 countries.  Our international 
visitors, as well as those of you outside of Massachusetts will now 
be able to access the video content from a server local to where you 
are on the Web.  This change will make the video stream more robust, 
and enable us to handle increases in traffic and usage.  We worked 
closely with <http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html>MIT's OpenCourseWare, 
whose content is also distributed by Akamai, to provide this 
enhancement.  We welcome Akamai as a new partner and thank our 
colleagues at MIT's OpenCourseWare for their assistance.

The email announcements that you receive from MIT World will soon be 
reformatted.  The new format will have new features including 
announcements about upcoming MIT sponsored conferences, publications 
and events, and links to our partners.  The new email is being 
designed by <http://www.barrett.com/>Barrett Communications and will 
be deployed later this fall. 

All of these changes are in direct response to the thousands of 
emails we've received with your suggestions and comments.  We thank 
you for your ideas and feedback. 


Sincerely,


The MIT World Team

MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional 
Education Programs and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the 
Office of the Vice President for Research, the School of Architecture 
and Planning, the School of Engineering, the School of Humanities, 
Arts and Social Sciences, the Sloan School of Management, and the 
School of Science at MIT.

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MIT World
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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