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Akamai Rolls Out Free Cost-Cutting Service for ISPs
"Teleglobe's GlobeinternetSM customers, which includes hundred of ISPs in nearly 100 countries, demand that we provide them with the best price-performance for Internet connectivity," said Bob Collet, Vice-President and General Manager for Data Services at Teleglobe. "With Akamai's servers deployed throughout our global Internet backbone network, we are able to offer our customers significantly improved access to premium Web content and media."
ISPs pay nothing to participate in the FreeFlow ISP program. By allowing Akamai to place its servers inside a carrier's point-of-presence, the ISP cuts bandwidth expense and improves performance for its Internet access customers. And FreeFlow ISP is easy to implement - servers can be shipped, installed, and operational in days.
"For many ISPs, bandwidth is their single greatest expense. Akamai helps them reduce this cost, while improving their customers' satisfaction because popular Web sites download faster," said George Conrades, Akamai Chairman and CEO. "No other company is offering these benefits to ISPs for free."
This unique arrangement is based on Akamai's first commercial offer, FreeFlowSM , which guarantees high-performance and reliability to highly-trafficked or content-rich Web sites. Conceived by top scientists are MIT's famed Laboratory for Computer Science, FreeFlow was successfully tested with major Web sites in the first quarter of 1999 and is now commercially available.
Akamai's servers are complementary and non-intrusive to an ISP's existing infrastructure, including routers, access concentrators, and caches. FreeFlow ISP even improves the effectiveness of caches for those carriers which have deployed them. Because Akamai's network only stores up-to-date content, caches are ensured access to fresh Web pages and other objects. In addition, since Akamai's service is designated by many leading Web sites to be its official source of content, the company's servers can also deliver Web pages which are marked "uncachable."
"OzEmail loves Akamai's ability to speed up access to popular content for our Internet subscribers," said David Spence, President and COO of OzEmail, Australia's leading ISP, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of UUNET, an MCI WorldCom company.
In addition to OzEmail and Teleglobe, charter participants in the FreeFlow ISP program include IDC (Japan), JPIX (Japan), KDD (Japan), Korea Telecom (Korea), Pacific Internet Limited (Singapore), SingNet (Singapore), and WonderNet (Taiwan).
Akamai's network is expanding daily. Today, Akamai's worldwide fault-tolerant network consists of over 500 servers on 20 networks, and has a total capacity of over 10 gigabits per second - enough throughput to support the peak demand of the world's 25 top Web sites combined. In the first week in May, Akamai served over one-quarter billion hits per day and 350 megabits per second on average during peak hours. These extraordinary volumes, however, utilized only 3% of Akamai's total capacity.
FreeFlow servers are built on a standard PC-based architecture running Akamai's proprietary software. Minimum requirements for a carrier to participate in the FreeFlow ISP program include DS3 connectivity to upstream service providers and an environmentally controlled, secure facility. In addition to Internet carriers, FreeFlow ISP is also open to universities, government organizations and even corporations that can meet the program's easy requirements.
"Akamai's offer creates a win-win for content providers and ISPs," noted Jonathan Seelig, who oversees the Free Flow ISP program and is Akamai's VP of Strategy and Corporate Development. "ISPs cut costs and speed the delivery of popular content for their end-users while enabling Web site owners to maintain full control of their content."
Teleglobe Inc. (NYSE, TSE, ME: TGO) is a recognized leader in global telecommunications. Through its subsidiary Teleglobe Communications Corporation, the company develops and supplies global connectivity services to carriers, Internet service providers, switchless resellers, multinational corporations and broadcast customers worldwide. Through Excel Communications' proven marketing and distribution channels, Teleglobe also caters to an expanding international retail customer base. The company is the fourth-ranked long distance provider in the United States and, according to a recent KMI Corporation study, the owner and operator of the world's third most extensive overseas telecommunications network. Teleglobe has a 50% interest in ORBCOMM, the world's first commercial low-earth-orbit, satellite-based, data communications system. Additional information is available at www.teleglobe.com.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo and Cupertino, California, and Europe. Akamai is the leader in distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery, serving over 225 of the Web's most popular properties including over 100 leading e-commerce companies. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 2000 servers in over 40 countries directly connected to more than 100 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
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| John Murray Teleglobe Communications Corporation 703-755-2180 jmurray@teleglobe.com |
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OzEmail, Teleglobe And Seven Other Carriers Already Cutting Bandwidth Expense While Boosting Performance
CAMBRIDGE, MA., May 14, 1999 - Akamai Technologies today introduced FreeFlow ISP, an innovative program that cuts bandwidth expense and improves performance for Internet carriers. Teleglobe has already joined the FreeFlow ISP program and reports very positive results from its relationship with Akamai."Teleglobe's GlobeinternetSM customers, which includes hundred of ISPs in nearly 100 countries, demand that we provide them with the best price-performance for Internet connectivity," said Bob Collet, Vice-President and General Manager for Data Services at Teleglobe. "With Akamai's servers deployed throughout our global Internet backbone network, we are able to offer our customers significantly improved access to premium Web content and media."
ISPs pay nothing to participate in the FreeFlow ISP program. By allowing Akamai to place its servers inside a carrier's point-of-presence, the ISP cuts bandwidth expense and improves performance for its Internet access customers. And FreeFlow ISP is easy to implement - servers can be shipped, installed, and operational in days.
"For many ISPs, bandwidth is their single greatest expense. Akamai helps them reduce this cost, while improving their customers' satisfaction because popular Web sites download faster," said George Conrades, Akamai Chairman and CEO. "No other company is offering these benefits to ISPs for free."
This unique arrangement is based on Akamai's first commercial offer, FreeFlowSM , which guarantees high-performance and reliability to highly-trafficked or content-rich Web sites. Conceived by top scientists are MIT's famed Laboratory for Computer Science, FreeFlow was successfully tested with major Web sites in the first quarter of 1999 and is now commercially available.
Akamai's servers are complementary and non-intrusive to an ISP's existing infrastructure, including routers, access concentrators, and caches. FreeFlow ISP even improves the effectiveness of caches for those carriers which have deployed them. Because Akamai's network only stores up-to-date content, caches are ensured access to fresh Web pages and other objects. In addition, since Akamai's service is designated by many leading Web sites to be its official source of content, the company's servers can also deliver Web pages which are marked "uncachable."
"OzEmail loves Akamai's ability to speed up access to popular content for our Internet subscribers," said David Spence, President and COO of OzEmail, Australia's leading ISP, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of UUNET, an MCI WorldCom company.
In addition to OzEmail and Teleglobe, charter participants in the FreeFlow ISP program include IDC (Japan), JPIX (Japan), KDD (Japan), Korea Telecom (Korea), Pacific Internet Limited (Singapore), SingNet (Singapore), and WonderNet (Taiwan).
Akamai's network is expanding daily. Today, Akamai's worldwide fault-tolerant network consists of over 500 servers on 20 networks, and has a total capacity of over 10 gigabits per second - enough throughput to support the peak demand of the world's 25 top Web sites combined. In the first week in May, Akamai served over one-quarter billion hits per day and 350 megabits per second on average during peak hours. These extraordinary volumes, however, utilized only 3% of Akamai's total capacity.
FreeFlow servers are built on a standard PC-based architecture running Akamai's proprietary software. Minimum requirements for a carrier to participate in the FreeFlow ISP program include DS3 connectivity to upstream service providers and an environmentally controlled, secure facility. In addition to Internet carriers, FreeFlow ISP is also open to universities, government organizations and even corporations that can meet the program's easy requirements.
"Akamai's offer creates a win-win for content providers and ISPs," noted Jonathan Seelig, who oversees the Free Flow ISP program and is Akamai's VP of Strategy and Corporate Development. "ISPs cut costs and speed the delivery of popular content for their end-users while enabling Web site owners to maintain full control of their content."
Teleglobe Inc. (NYSE, TSE, ME: TGO) is a recognized leader in global telecommunications. Through its subsidiary Teleglobe Communications Corporation, the company develops and supplies global connectivity services to carriers, Internet service providers, switchless resellers, multinational corporations and broadcast customers worldwide. Through Excel Communications' proven marketing and distribution channels, Teleglobe also caters to an expanding international retail customer base. The company is the fourth-ranked long distance provider in the United States and, according to a recent KMI Corporation study, the owner and operator of the world's third most extensive overseas telecommunications network. Teleglobe has a 50% interest in ORBCOMM, the world's first commercial low-earth-orbit, satellite-based, data communications system. Additional information is available at www.teleglobe.com.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo and Cupertino, California, and Europe. Akamai is the leader in distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery, serving over 225 of the Web's most popular properties including over 100 leading e-commerce companies. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 2000 servers in over 40 countries directly connected to more than 100 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
