Akamai will support Silverlight

Akamai Technologies Inc., a Cambridge-based service provider for accelerating content and applications online, today announced support for Silverlight, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in from Microsoft Corp.

Silverlight is described as a plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications on the Web. Akamai also announced that it has collaborated with Microsoft to develop the Akamai Media Player Framework for Microsoft.

Akamai said it has worked with Microsoft over the past two quarters to create development code that serves as a foundation for developing custom Silverlight-based media players.

"Among our customer base, we are seeing tremendous interest in the Silverlight technology as a means to improve cross-platform reach and enable rich, powerful media experiences," Bill Wheaton, Akamai vice president of digital media, said in a statement.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)