Segment and Geographic Information

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment and Geographic Information

Segment and Geographic Information:

Akamai’s chief decision-maker, as defined under the authoritative guidance for disclosures about segments of an enterprise and related information, is the Chief Executive Officer and the executive management team. As of December 31, 2011, Akamai operated in one industry segment: providing services for accelerating and improving the delivery of content and applications over the Internet. The Company is not organized by market and is managed and operated as one business. A single management team that reports to the Chief Executive Officer comprehensively manages the entire business. The Company does not operate any material separate lines of business or separate business entities with respect to its services. Accordingly, the Company does not accumulate discrete financial information with respect to separate product lines and does not have separately reportable segments as defined in the guidance.

The Company deploys its servers into networks worldwide. As of December 31, 2011, the Company had approximately $194.0 million and $99.0 million of property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation, located in the United States and foreign locations, respectively. As of December 31, 2010, the Company had approximately $174.9 million and $81.0 million of property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation, located in the United States and foreign locations, respectively.

Akamai sells its services and licenses through a sales force located both domestically and abroad. The following table summarizes the percentage of the Company's revenues derived from operations outside of the United States:

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2011		2010		2009
Revenues from outside of the United States	29	%	28	%	28	%
Revenues derived from Europe	18	%	17	%	18	%

Other than the United States, no single country accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s total revenues for any reported period.