Originally Posted by javabytes

Akamai is a content delivery network, used by many, many companies to serve up their content. This is not an indication of anything suspicious. Any application you have installed on your computer might be making connections to Akamai. Even Microsoft uses it for things like Windows Update. If you are intent on finding out what exactly is connecting to Akamai, install something on your machine like Fiddler that will let you trace the activity to a particular process.