Akamai signs deal with OpenDNS to make the web faster

Content delivery network Akamai is still attempting to speed up the web and it has teamed up with OpenDNS to add optimized DNS routing to its arsenal of services.

For customers using OpenDNS, content hosted on Akamai’s servers will arrive faster -- as much as four times fast in some cases. So now a user in Austin, Texas who types in the URL for a YouTube video will share part of his IP address as part of the DNS request. That way, the domain name system server can route the request to a Google data center in Dallas, as opposed to one in Ireland.

This can substantially speed up access to content.