Segment and Geographic Information

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Segment and Geographic Information [Abstract]

Segment and Geographic Information

Segment and Geographic Information

Akamai’s chief decision-maker, as defined under the authoritative guidance that discusses disclosures about segments of an enterprise and related information, is the Chief Executive Officer and the executive management team. As of June 30, 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 June 30, 2011, the Company had $180.2 million and $94.2 million of property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation, located in the United States and in foreign locations, respectively. As of December 31, 2010, the Company had $174.9 million and $81.0 million of property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation, located in the United States and in foreign locations, respectively. Akamai sells its services through a direct sales force located both domestically and abroad. For the each of the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 approximately 30% and 28%, respectively, of the Company’s revenues were derived from operations located outside of the United States, including 18% derived from Europe during each of such periods. No single country outside the United States accounted for 10% or more of revenues during these periods. For each of the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, no customer accounted for 10% or more of total revenues.