PRESS RELEASE:Akamai Tech Customer
Base Grows To Over 200
( BW)(MA-AKAMAI)(AKAM) Akamai Doubles Customer Base to 200 in
Six Weeks
Business Editors, Hi-Tech Writers
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 5, 2000--
Bloomberg.com, CNET, drugstore.com, jobs.com, QUALCOMM Eudora
Products, RedHerring.com, Time Inc., VA Linux Systems, and
Williams-Sonoma.com join Akamai's customer base of leading
Web properties
Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), which offers global, high
performance services for the delivery of Internet content and applications,
today announced that its FreeFlow(SM) service has been selected by over 200
leading Web properties across all business sectors.
Akamai's FreeFlow service has become the foremost solution for improving a
Web site's performance and reliability through its powerful technology for
enabling the secure delivery of all forms of engaging and dynamic content and
applications over the Internet.
Akamai's growing customer base represents the premier Web properties on
the Internet including:
-- 7 out of 10 of the Web's major search sites(a)
-- Over 75 popular e-tailers and e-commerce sites
-- The best performing site for the last 37 weeks as
reported in the
Keynote Business 40 Internet Performance Index
-- Many of the most heavily-trafficked Web sites for
retrieving
news, information and entertainment
-- Top Web ad services companies
-- Numerous successful job search destination sites
-- Many of today's most popular educational sites for
learning for
all ages
-- 10 highly-consulted financial Web sites
-- Over 20 Web sites dedicated to software downloads,
products and
services
"The pace at which our customers are discovering the significance of Akamai's
FreeFlow service is a testament to what this technology means for delivering a
better Internet," said George Conrades, chairman and CEO of Akamai. "As a
company, we are extremely proud to be working with over 200 world-class
Web sites who are using the Internet to accelerate their vision. Our goal is to
help these eBusinesses succeed by stretching the outer limits of the 'Net,
making Web performance issues a distant memory." -0- *T Akamai is proud to
welcome the following new customers among many others:
Adobe Systems Inc. jobs.com
Alston & Bird LLP LatinLOOK.com, Inc.
AuctionRover.com Loquesea.com Network
Bloomberg.com Myplay.com
CNET OurHouse.com
Cooking.com QUALCOMM Eudora Products
deltathree.com, Inc. RedHerring.com
drugstore.com Time Inc.
FreeLotto.com VA Linux Systems
Hypernix Technologies Ltd. Williams-Sonoma.com *T
Akamai's newest customers join a number of leading Web properties already
using Akamai's FreeFlow service, including About.com, Apple, Artisan
Entertainment Inc., Bluefly.com, Britannica.com, CCBN.com, CNN
Interactive, Discovery Enterprises Worldwide, GO Network, JCPenney,
KBkids.com, Lands' End, Looksmart, marthastewart.com, Microsoft's
Streaming Media Division, The Motley Fool, Nasdaq, SEND.COM, Symantec,
Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, wine.com, Wrenchead.com, and Yahoo!
The benefits of becoming "Akamaized"
"Not only has Akamai's FreeFlow service made the AuctionRover.com site
faster and more reliable, but our Akamaization was ideal - implementation was
easy, Akamai's support was excellent and the whole process was quick and
flawless," said Aris Buinevicius, chief technical officer, AuctionRover.com.
"Fast, efficient Internet performance is paramount for our users," said Elie C.
Wurtman, chairman of deltathree.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDDC). "As a leading
provider of global Internet telephony services and other enhanced, Web-based
communications services, deltathree.com has partnered with Akamai to further
accelerate the delivery of our Web content to our customers so they can
achieve the best Internet experience possible."
"Hypernix is proud to join the leading Internet companies that have adopted
Akamai's revolutionary content delivery service," said Ran Shalom, co-CEO
and CTO, Hypernix Technologies Ltd. "We have just completed the
'Akamaization' of both our Web site and Gooey Zone, our rich-media content
box, to provide our users with the fastest, most advanced content delivery
system available on the Net."
"As we build our brand on the Web, having the best performing Web site that
we can offer is important to the success of our business and to keeping
jobs.com at the forefront of its industry. Akamai's content delivery service has
been a significant asset to our business and has enabled us to deliver
tremendous value to our customers," said Scott Howitt, chief technology
officer, jobs.com. "We are excited about the future innovations we can offer
our customers through the use of Akamai's technology."
"As the world's premier email application, QUALCOMM's Eudora email client
software has more than 20 million users worldwide," said Jeffrey K. Belk,
QUALCOMM vice president and general manager of Eudora Products. "For
us, the speed and reliability of our downloads are critical success factors and
we have been impressed with the initial results Akamai has brought to our
business. Our decision to use Akamai's best-of-breed technology produced
immediate, very tangible results as we began providing the full Eudora product
as a free download in December."
"At Red Herring, we are proud of the reputation we have built as Web
technology experts. We realized that it was important to boost the performance
of our Web site with the new, cutting-edge services that we regularly educate
our readers with," said Michael Millikin, senior vice president, RedHerring.com.
"We chose Akamai's revolutionary content delivery service to deliver the
improvements our site needed -- increased speed and functionality to deliver
rich content and consistent reliability to meet the high traffic demands our site
receives daily."
"VA Linux Systems' customers, like the Linux community, are web-based. We
anticipated the need for Akamai's content and application delivery services
some time ago and have been extremely pleased with the enhanced speed and
performance increases it has brought to our Web site. We look forward to
leveraging Akamai's technology to bolster our presence on the Web and enrich
our end users' online experience," said Patrick McGovern, director of
E-Commerce, VA Linux Systems.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has
offices in San Mateo, California. Akamai provides global Internet content and
applications delivery services for more than 200 customers, improving Web site
speed and reliability and enabling richer, more engaging Web site content.
Currently, Akamai has deployed 1700 servers in 30 countries across 100
different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is
Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool. (a) As reported in Media Metrix -
November 1999 Top Rankings of
Digital Media/Web Properties The release contains information about future
expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute
forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may
differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a
result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence
on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network
infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the
service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and
other factors that are discussed in the Company's Registration Statement on
Form S-1 and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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CONTACT: Akamai Technologies Contacts:
Jeff Young Caryn Converse
Marketing Manager Marketing Manager
617-250-3913 617-250-4661
jyoung@akamai.com converse@akamai.com
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