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Limelight Networks has extended the company's website acceleration services with the introduction of Commerce Accelerator and Portal Accelerator. These new solutions are designed to improve web experiences by providing consistent performance from any geography for dynamic and personalized content, online commerce transactions, and web applications.

"Today's demanding end users expect their favorite online storefronts, self-service portals, and even their web business applications to be rich with personalized, dynamic content and interactive elements," said David Hatfield, senior vice president, Limelight Networks, Inc. "Our newest web acceleration offerings provide publishers, retailers, advertisers, and corporate IT departments with cloud-based solutions to help meet those consumer expectations. These solutions deliver dynamic, targeted personalized experiences, helping to build online brand recognition and improve customer loyalty, all while reducing operating costs."

Commerce Accelerator allows business-to-consumer enterprises to balance a richer end user experience with overall site performance. The service maximizes the delivery of dynamic site content such as transactions and shopping carts, personalized pages, and other highly interactive content. Through Limelight's reliable global infrastructure, Commerce Accelerator service can amplify the effectiveness of customer-owned infrastructure and increase the availability of storefronts during peak usage periods.

Portal Accelerator speeds the performance of web and extranet applications, helping to ensure effective communication and collaboration between partners, suppliers, co-workers, employees, and customers around the globe. The service uses Limelight's global infrastructure to increase application availability, response times, and security by seamlessly extending the reach of customer-owned infrastructure.

Commerce and Portal Accelerator customers can choose to secure their web businesses using secure socket layer (SSL) certificates. Both Limelight services support specialty certificates such as wild card, extended validation, and subject alternative name certificates.

Commerce and Portal Accelerator both include an enhanced version of Limelight's OriginDirect routing technology. OriginDirect bypasses "middle-mile" Internet bottlenecks by routing requests over Limelight's multiple, private fiber optic routes, instead of sending requests over the often-congested public Internet. The enhanced version enables priority routing of Commerce and Portal Accelerator traffic.

Commerce and Portal Accelerator also include service level agreements (SLAs) which guarantee better online experiences, and are backed specifically by guarantees for connection times, network availability and network performance.

Also, today Limelight announced an update to Site Accelerator, formerly Limelight SITE. This whole site delivery solution enhances the performance of cacheable "small object" web content. Ideal for enterprises that target regional end users, the service can significantly reduce requests made to customer-owned infrastructure.