Several computers on the earth try to communicate with this site 6 times and hour every 24h a day.

This is the Akamai background client that handles the behind-the-scenes network work of the Akamai Download Manager which you used to download for example your every Adobe stuff.

Go to this site if you need an extra bit information from the official source: akamai.com

For the rest of us who do not want this kind of apps killing our bandwith or simply do not want it, here there are some tooltips:

If you want to stop it, go to Terminal and execute:
/Applications/Akamai/AdminTool stop

If you want to uninstall it, go to Terminal and execute:
/Applications/Akamai/AdminTool uninstall

To see what it’s doing:
/Applications/Akamai/AdminTool

That’s it.