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Akamai's Reach Doubles Again to Nearly 400 Customers, Representing Over 550 Web Properties
This week BusinessWeek magazine heralded Akamai as being "at the head of the pack" in the market aimed at improving Internet performance.
Since launching commercial service, the Company has delivered over 100 billion hits for customers and has added an average of more than 200 Web servers every month to the global Akamai Network. Akamai has set a record pace for global expansion and network deployment, and has established relationships with leading Tier 1 backbones, DSL, cable, and satellite providers.
According to George Conrades, Akamai's Chairman and CEO, "It is clear that we are in the critical, mass-market adoption stage for content delivery services where Web owners are not only realizing clear benefits, but are also building their business models with these services in mind. Akamai's customers are achieving real, measurable returns on investment and are dramatically improving the user experience for Web site visitors. We are exhilarated by the recognition we have received for our FreeFlow service over the last year. Others talk about what they are going to offer in the way of content delivery services -- Akamai delivers."
Akamai's customers represent:
Akamai's customers have achieved significant and measurable improvements as a result of FreeFlow. For example, eBags.com, an online retailer of bags and accessories, utilizes Akamai's FreeFlow service for high-speed, reliable delivery of all forms of engaging and dynamic content. FreeFlow has reduced download times for eBags.com by more than 50 percent, while increasing the site's performance and reliability. As a result of its faster page loads, eBags.com can provide more detailed product information to shoppers by greatly increasing the number of rich product images on the site. That has created more satisfied customers and a 15 percent increase in the site's order completion rate.
Demand for the FreeFlow service has expanded overseas as well. As a result of this interest and the significant growth of the European market, Akamai announced the opening of European subsidiaries in Munich, Paris and London earlier this quarter.
Built upon the same patent-pending technology as FreeFlow, Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service has emerged as a leading solution for the reliable and high-quality delivery of audio and video streaming over the Internet. Many of the same customers benefiting from Akamai's flagship FreeFlow service have already realized the benefits of FreeFlow Streaming. For example, CBS SportsLine's online audio Webcasts of "March Mayhem" are currently being streamed over Akamai's global network.
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 |
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On the first anniversary of the launch of FreeFlow, the global Akamai Network has expanded to over 2,750 servers in more than 150 networks in over 45 countries
CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 30, 2000 -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high-performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media and applications, announced that its FreeFlowSM services are now being used by nearly 400 customers, representing over 550 Web properties. Since the beginning of the year, Akamai has more than doubled its installed customer base, and continues to expand its global network of over 2,750 carrier-class, Intel-based Web servers deployed in more than 150 networks in over 45 countries.This week BusinessWeek magazine heralded Akamai as being "at the head of the pack" in the market aimed at improving Internet performance.
Since launching commercial service, the Company has delivered over 100 billion hits for customers and has added an average of more than 200 Web servers every month to the global Akamai Network. Akamai has set a record pace for global expansion and network deployment, and has established relationships with leading Tier 1 backbones, DSL, cable, and satellite providers.
According to George Conrades, Akamai's Chairman and CEO, "It is clear that we are in the critical, mass-market adoption stage for content delivery services where Web owners are not only realizing clear benefits, but are also building their business models with these services in mind. Akamai's customers are achieving real, measurable returns on investment and are dramatically improving the user experience for Web site visitors. We are exhilarated by the recognition we have received for our FreeFlow service over the last year. Others talk about what they are going to offer in the way of content delivery services -- Akamai delivers."
Akamai's customers represent:
- 9 of the top 10 Web search sites
- The online sites for today's most popular TV broadcast networks
- Over 125 e-commerce Web properties
- More than 75 popular media properties
- Over 20 highly-consulted financial service sites
Akamai's customers have achieved significant and measurable improvements as a result of FreeFlow. For example, eBags.com, an online retailer of bags and accessories, utilizes Akamai's FreeFlow service for high-speed, reliable delivery of all forms of engaging and dynamic content. FreeFlow has reduced download times for eBags.com by more than 50 percent, while increasing the site's performance and reliability. As a result of its faster page loads, eBags.com can provide more detailed product information to shoppers by greatly increasing the number of rich product images on the site. That has created more satisfied customers and a 15 percent increase in the site's order completion rate.
Demand for the FreeFlow service has expanded overseas as well. As a result of this interest and the significant growth of the European market, Akamai announced the opening of European subsidiaries in Munich, Paris and London earlier this quarter.
Built upon the same patent-pending technology as FreeFlow, Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service has emerged as a leading solution for the reliable and high-quality delivery of audio and video streaming over the Internet. Many of the same customers benefiting from Akamai's flagship FreeFlow service have already realized the benefits of FreeFlow Streaming. For example, CBS SportsLine's online audio Webcasts of "March Mayhem" are currently being streamed over Akamai's global network.
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.
