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Globalcenter Offers Akamai's FreeFlowSM As Premium Service for Customers
As a part of GlobalCenter's Commerce Service Solution, Akamai's Internet content delivery service improves customer site performance and reliability in an "on-demand" environment. GlobalCenter is presently making FreeFlow available to its entire customer base.
"As the market demands a scalable approach to Web initiatives, we see the Akamai/GlobalCenter relationship as ideal for offering a comprehensive solution for content providers," said Earl Galleher, vice president, sales and support for Akamai. "We look forward to our ongoing relationship with GlobalCenter as one of its premier service providers."
"Akamai leads all other content-delivery methods by enabling our customers to embed their content deeper in other networks where end-users work, live and play," said Paul Santinelli, vice president of technology for GlobalCenter. "Our agreement with Akamai helps us accomplish our top priority: to speed up content delivery to our customers' end-users."
The strategy for the Commerce Service Solution is comprised of four areas that are critical to ensure business availability and scalability: connectivity, data centers, "on-demand" utility applications and professional services. By utilizing the GlobalCenter solution, companies whose business models rely on the Internet, get enterprise class utility applications and services at a significantly reduced total cost-of-ownership with less capital outlay and fewer internal IT staff requirements. GlobalCenter's Commerce Service Solution provides businesses the Internet infrastructure to ensure high availability, flexibility and scalability necessary to compete in the digital economy.
Akamai's global Internet content and applications delivery service, FreeFlow, provides Web properties with secure, dependable, high-performance delivery of their rich media content and Internet applications through services that are scalable, easily implemented and easily managed. By moving content within a geographically distributed network closer to end users, and then intelligently routing requests, Akamai's service eliminates problems caused by Web congestion and network bottlenecks.
About GlobalCenter
GlobalCenter Inc. is a subsidiary of Global Crossing Ltd. (Nasdaq: GBLX). As the leading Commerce Service Provider, GlobalCenter delivers the only integrated commerce solution designed for scale in the global "e"conomy. GlobalCenter provides customers the Internet infrastructure to manage an online enterprise that must be highly available, flexible and scalable by seamlessly integrating its proprietary infrastructure, applications and intelligence. GlobalCenter's customers include many of the largest and most densely trafficked sites on the Web, including Yahoo!, The Motley Fool, Ziff Davis, MP3.com and eToys. GlobalCenter's parent company, Global Crossing is building and offering services over the world's first global fiber optic network with 92,700 announced route miles, serving five continents, 24 countries and more than 170 major cities. The Global Crossing Network and its telecommunications and Internet product offerings will be available to over 80% of the world's international communications traffic. Global Crossing is included in both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100. For more information contact GlobalCenter at www.globalcenter.net, or Global Crossing at www.globalcrossing.com.
Statements made in this press release that state GlobalCenter's or Global Crossing's or management's intentions, beliefs, expectations, or predictions for the future are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause GlobalCenter's or Global Crossing's actual results to differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements. These risks, assumptions and uncertainties include: the ability to complete systems within currently estimated time frames and budgets; the ability to compete effectively in a rapidly evolving and price competitive marketplace; changes in the nature of telecommunications regulation in the United States and other countries; changes in business strategy; the successful integration of newly-acquired businesses; the impact of technological change; and other risks referenced from time to time in the Global Crossing's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo, California. Akamai provides a global Internet content delivery service that improves Web site speed and reliability and enables 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.
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| Secret Fenton Frontier GlobalCenter Inc. 408-543-4819 sfenton@globalcenter.net |
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Leading Commerce Service Provider Enhances Customer Content Delivery with Akamai
CAMBRIDGE, MA and SUNNYVALE, CA - December 13, 1999 - Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), which offers a global, high-performance service for the delivery of Internet content and applications, and GlobalCenter Inc., a Global Crossing Company and the leading Commerce Service Provider, today announced the availability of Akamai's FreeFlowSM service to GlobalCenter customers. GlobalCenter has selected FreeFlow as part of its Commerce Service Solution, the only integrated commerce solution designed for scale in the global economy.As a part of GlobalCenter's Commerce Service Solution, Akamai's Internet content delivery service improves customer site performance and reliability in an "on-demand" environment. GlobalCenter is presently making FreeFlow available to its entire customer base.
"As the market demands a scalable approach to Web initiatives, we see the Akamai/GlobalCenter relationship as ideal for offering a comprehensive solution for content providers," said Earl Galleher, vice president, sales and support for Akamai. "We look forward to our ongoing relationship with GlobalCenter as one of its premier service providers."
"Akamai leads all other content-delivery methods by enabling our customers to embed their content deeper in other networks where end-users work, live and play," said Paul Santinelli, vice president of technology for GlobalCenter. "Our agreement with Akamai helps us accomplish our top priority: to speed up content delivery to our customers' end-users."
The strategy for the Commerce Service Solution is comprised of four areas that are critical to ensure business availability and scalability: connectivity, data centers, "on-demand" utility applications and professional services. By utilizing the GlobalCenter solution, companies whose business models rely on the Internet, get enterprise class utility applications and services at a significantly reduced total cost-of-ownership with less capital outlay and fewer internal IT staff requirements. GlobalCenter's Commerce Service Solution provides businesses the Internet infrastructure to ensure high availability, flexibility and scalability necessary to compete in the digital economy.
Akamai's global Internet content and applications delivery service, FreeFlow, provides Web properties with secure, dependable, high-performance delivery of their rich media content and Internet applications through services that are scalable, easily implemented and easily managed. By moving content within a geographically distributed network closer to end users, and then intelligently routing requests, Akamai's service eliminates problems caused by Web congestion and network bottlenecks.
About GlobalCenter
GlobalCenter Inc. is a subsidiary of Global Crossing Ltd. (Nasdaq: GBLX). As the leading Commerce Service Provider, GlobalCenter delivers the only integrated commerce solution designed for scale in the global "e"conomy. GlobalCenter provides customers the Internet infrastructure to manage an online enterprise that must be highly available, flexible and scalable by seamlessly integrating its proprietary infrastructure, applications and intelligence. GlobalCenter's customers include many of the largest and most densely trafficked sites on the Web, including Yahoo!, The Motley Fool, Ziff Davis, MP3.com and eToys. GlobalCenter's parent company, Global Crossing is building and offering services over the world's first global fiber optic network with 92,700 announced route miles, serving five continents, 24 countries and more than 170 major cities. The Global Crossing Network and its telecommunications and Internet product offerings will be available to over 80% of the world's international communications traffic. Global Crossing is included in both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100. For more information contact GlobalCenter at www.globalcenter.net, or Global Crossing at www.globalcrossing.com.
Statements made in this press release that state GlobalCenter's or Global Crossing's or management's intentions, beliefs, expectations, or predictions for the future are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause GlobalCenter's or Global Crossing's actual results to differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements. These risks, assumptions and uncertainties include: the ability to complete systems within currently estimated time frames and budgets; the ability to compete effectively in a rapidly evolving and price competitive marketplace; changes in the nature of telecommunications regulation in the United States and other countries; changes in business strategy; the successful integration of newly-acquired businesses; the impact of technological change; and other risks referenced from time to time in the Global Crossing's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo, California. Akamai provides a global Internet content delivery service that improves Web site speed and reliability and enables 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.
