Akamai/CDN rate limiting

[John Von Essen <john () essenz com>]

Can someone from Akamai reach out off-list?

I work for a major search engine (not google or bing) and we’re rolling out a new region. One of our upstream API 
partners is using Akamai CDN on the front end. When we tried an initial rollout of the region we started to get alot of 
connection timeouts from the Akamai powered CDN, presumably due to some kind of rate limiting. It was also very bursty 
in nature. It would be great if we could confirm this, and figure out a way to mitigate.

Thanks
John