Akamai Technologies, Inc. and Queue-it announced a global commercial partnership agreement designed to offer enterprises a consumer-friendly means to manage the challenges caused by surges in website traffic. The new partnership gives customers an easily deployable solution that controls online traffic, treats site visitors fairly and scales across Akamai's Intelligent Edge Platform, the world's most pervasive cloud delivery platform. The Akamai-Queue-it partnership lets enterprises integrate Queue-it's virtual waiting room without touching their codebase via Akamai's EdgeWorkers edge computing solution, a particularly attractive option for online retailers with complex systems. Connecting at Akamai's edge shields backend servers from traffic requests, which helps deliver improved and more reliable performance on the most business-critical days. The EdgeWorkers integration is beyond the reach of tech-savvy visitors who might manipulate client-side code to skip the online queue, ensuring retailers offer fair access to hyped launches and product releases.