Download Manager is available as an add-on component for Akamai Electronic Software Delivery customers who use their Web sites to deliver digitized files, such as software, movies, or other large objects. Download Manager provides a simplified method of distributing, downloading, and installing digitized assets via the Internet. Download Manager can be used with Web sites that deliver content via SSL, as well as with sites that require authentication before providing access to content.

For your end users, Download Manager provides a user-friendly application that significantly improves the ease, efficiency, and reliability of their downloads.For your organization, Download Manager offers a simple method for tracking the success or failure of each download and provides automated recovery capabilities.

You must be surprise why I am talking about Akamai in my last blogs, since there is a strategic alliance between Microsoft and Akamai for future Content Delivery - Microsoft is using Akamai Network for all Release Candidates for SQL Server 2008.

Read more about Akamai Download Manager: http://www.akamai.com/dl/feature_sheets/Akamai_Download_Manager_FS.pdf

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