Akamai and Internap Expand Relationship to Offer Next-Generation Internet Content Delivery.
Business Wire, March 15, 2001 p2017
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2001
Internap to increase options for customers through resale of Akamai's EdgeSuite(SM) service
INTERNET WORLD - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP), and Internap Network Services Corporation (Nasdaq: INAP), the leading intelligent routing services provider, today announced an expansion to the companies' existing relationship through which Internap will offer Akamai's EdgeSuite(SM) service as a value-added offering for its customers. Akamai's EdgeSuite service leverages Akamai's global, fault-tolerant network and incorporates whole site delivery, local and global load balancing and content routing in one integrated offering.
As businesses look for more cost-effective methods of managing Web infrastructure, the combination of Internap's intelligent routing through the Internet's core and Akamai's integrated suite of managed edge services creates an optimal solution for customers looking to maximize performance while leveraging infrastructure investments. "The Internap--Akamai relationship has already proven valuable for mutual customers that have demanding Web site delivery requirements," said Alan Norman, vice president of corporate development for Internap Network Services. "We're pleased to offer the benefits of Akamai's EdgeSuite service as part of our on-going efforts to provide the best possible performance and reliability to our customers."
"Internap's intelligent core services plus Akamai's managed edge services equal a winning combination for our customers," said Chris Turner, vice president, channel distribution, Akamai. "Internap helps Akamai traffic transit the Internet's core in the fastest, most reliable manner, while Akamai efficiently delivers content to the end-user from the Internet's edge."
Internap's Overlay Network monitors the traffic situation over all the major Internet backbones and routes mission-critical data in a faster, more reliable and more managed fashion than conventional Internet technology.
Akamai's EdgeSuite offering is an integrated suite of services that allows Web sites to reap the performance, scalability, and reliability benefits of content delivery across an entire Web site - including static and dynamic content, embedded objects, streaming media, and HTML. The EdgeSuite service enables the generation and delivery of all forms of content from optimal locations for each end user. Internap customers will be able to realize the benefits of massive scalability and 100% Web site availability via Akamai's globally distributed network, while cost-effectively off-loading vital Web infrastructure.
As part of their strategic alliance announcement in December, Internap became a reseller of Akamai's FreeFlow(SM), FreeFlow(SM) Streaming, FirstPoint(SM), and EdgeScape(SM) services, which offer businesses the benefits of rapid, reliable content delivery, high-quality streaming media delivery, geo-location functionality, advanced global traffic management, Web usage reporting, and other performance benefits. Akamai, already an important Internap customer, significantly increased its connectivity commitment to Internap and is strategically collocating content delivery servers at Internap Service Points. The agreements were designed to result in faster and more reliable content delivery for Internap and Akamai customers' Web sites, and more efficient market access to the technologies offered by Internap and Akamai.
About Internap
Founded in 1996 in Seattle, Internap provides Internet connectivity that is faster and more reliable than conventional Internet service. Internap's patented route management technology provides direct data transmission across the major Internet backbones through a single connection from a customer's network to one of Internap's Service Points. Internap's customers bypass congestion points on the Internet, avoiding packet loss, latency and other difficulties that can plague conventional Internet connectivity. Internap services are currently available in numerous key markets throughout the United States including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Jose and Seattle. Major companies and networks served by Internap include The Nasdaq Stock Market, Datek Online, Colgate Palmolive, Earthlink, Travelocity and many others. Internap(R) and P-NAP(R) are registered trademarks of Internap. All other trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. For more information, visit www.Internap.com.
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider, serving more than 3,600 customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 8,000 servers in 55 countries directly connected within 473 different telecommunications networks.
Internap "Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release may contain projections or other forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. Readers are referred to the documents filed by Internap with the SEC, specifically the most recent filings on Forms S-1 and S-3, and its periodic reports, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including, among other things, Internap's history of operating losses and expected future losses, Internap's limited operating history, fluctuations in Internap's quarterly operating results, Internet infrastructure and regulatory changes, volatility of stock price, deployment of new Service Points, integration of acquired businesses and rapid technological and market change. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to Internap on the date hereof, and Internap assumes no obligation to update such statements.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
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 Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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