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Akamai and Digex Announce Strategic Relationship for Content Delivery and High Availability
Digex focuses on maximizing the availability, scalability, performance and security of customers' Web sites and Internet applications. Akamai's services are the latest addition in Digex's High Availability and Performance suite of offerings which includes local and geographic load-balancing, stress testing, and the recently announced Dynamic Fail-Over solution. This entire product suite is dedicated to eliminating site downtime that might interfere with mission-critical transactions online.
Akamai's Internet content delivery services speed up Web site performance and improve reliability by delivering Web content from Akamai servers around the globe, located close to Internet end users. As a result, Digex's use of Akamai's services is designed to enhance the end-to-end delivery of mission-critical Web content for its customers. With the Digex customer base launching more complex transaction sites with rich content as part of its value-added services, Akamai's services are a logical enhancement to speed media-rich content to Internet users.
Akamai's network today spans 24 countries with 1,475 servers. In addition to hosting servers for Akamai in Digex's data centers on the east and west coasts, Digex will offer a set price for Akamai's services worldwide - without geographic surcharges.
"Digex's strong focus on Web and Application hosting for mission-critical Web sites makes it an ideal partner for Akamai," said George Conrades, chairman and chief executive officer of Akamai. "Our focus on providing Web businesses with dependable, high-performance delivery of rich Web content combined with Digex's powerful suite of Web hosting applications will ensure that customers' Web sites are always operating at their highest potential."
"Our strategic relationship with Akamai enables Digex to bring global Web content delivery to our customers. Performance and availability are extremely important for e-business," said Mark Shull, president and chief executive officer of Digex. "Slow sites mean lost customers. If a site is fast then end users stay. This means more page views, more transactions and ultimately more revenue for our customers."
About Digex
Digex (NASDAQ: DIGX) is a leading provider of Web and application hosting services for some of the world's leading companies that rely on the Internet as a critical business tool. Digex also offers value-added enterprises and professional services, including performance and security testing, monitoring, reporting and networking services. Digex customers, from mainstream corporations to Internet-based businesses, leverage Digex's services to deploy secure, scaleable, high performance business solutions, including electronic retailing, online banking, online procurement and customer self-service applications. Additional information on Digex is available at http://www.digex.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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| Jeff Young Akamai Technologies 617-250-3913 jyoung@akamai.com |
--or-- | Caryn Converse Akamai Technologies 617-250-4661 converse@akamai.com |
| Laura Heinrich Digex, Inc. 301-847-5998 laurah@digex.com |
--or-- | Kim Bergen Sullivan Agnew Carter MS&L 617-437-7722 ksullivan@mslboston.com |
Digex aims to increase availability and performance with Akamai's Internet content delivery services
CAMBRIDGE, MA and BELTSVILLE, MD, November 10, 1999 -- Akamai technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), which operates global Internet content delivery services that speed up Web performance and enable the creation of more engaging content, and Digex (NASDAQ: DIGX), a leader of managed Web and application hosting services, announced today that they have entered into a strategic agreement that will enhance the delivery of Web content and applications for companies operating mission-critical Web sites. Digex will offer Akamai's content delivery services to its e-business and application hosting customers to optimize end-to-end performance of their complex Web sites. Digex's suite of managed solutions combined with Akamai's services is designed to improve the speed, reliability and performance of Digex's customer Web sites and provide a better end-user experience.Digex focuses on maximizing the availability, scalability, performance and security of customers' Web sites and Internet applications. Akamai's services are the latest addition in Digex's High Availability and Performance suite of offerings which includes local and geographic load-balancing, stress testing, and the recently announced Dynamic Fail-Over solution. This entire product suite is dedicated to eliminating site downtime that might interfere with mission-critical transactions online.
Akamai's Internet content delivery services speed up Web site performance and improve reliability by delivering Web content from Akamai servers around the globe, located close to Internet end users. As a result, Digex's use of Akamai's services is designed to enhance the end-to-end delivery of mission-critical Web content for its customers. With the Digex customer base launching more complex transaction sites with rich content as part of its value-added services, Akamai's services are a logical enhancement to speed media-rich content to Internet users.
Akamai's network today spans 24 countries with 1,475 servers. In addition to hosting servers for Akamai in Digex's data centers on the east and west coasts, Digex will offer a set price for Akamai's services worldwide - without geographic surcharges.
"Digex's strong focus on Web and Application hosting for mission-critical Web sites makes it an ideal partner for Akamai," said George Conrades, chairman and chief executive officer of Akamai. "Our focus on providing Web businesses with dependable, high-performance delivery of rich Web content combined with Digex's powerful suite of Web hosting applications will ensure that customers' Web sites are always operating at their highest potential."
"Our strategic relationship with Akamai enables Digex to bring global Web content delivery to our customers. Performance and availability are extremely important for e-business," said Mark Shull, president and chief executive officer of Digex. "Slow sites mean lost customers. If a site is fast then end users stay. This means more page views, more transactions and ultimately more revenue for our customers."
About Digex
Digex (NASDAQ: DIGX) is a leading provider of Web and application hosting services for some of the world's leading companies that rely on the Internet as a critical business tool. Digex also offers value-added enterprises and professional services, including performance and security testing, monitoring, reporting and networking services. Digex customers, from mainstream corporations to Internet-based businesses, leverage Digex's services to deploy secure, scaleable, high performance business solutions, including electronic retailing, online banking, online procurement and customer self-service applications. Additional information on Digex is available at http://www.digex.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.
