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E! Online Chooses Akamai's FreeFlow Service to Bolster Web Site Performance
Reaching more than 5.3 million unique, U.S. adult users per month*, E! Online delivers original, up-to-the-minute entertainment news, celebrity gossip, reviews, games, premiere live event coverage, and entertainment-related merchandise to movie, TV, and music enthusiasts worldwide. E! Online selected Akamai's FreeFlowSM service to distribute its rich media content, including images and multimedia files, via Akamai's globally distributed network of more than 3,000 servers, resulting in enhanced performance for E! Online's end users.
"Akamai continues to be the dominant choice of entertainment businesses looking to enhance the online experience for users," said Earl Galleher, vice president, worldwide sales and support, Akamai. "We're happy to help E! Online deliver the kind of solid performance that keeps users coming back again and again."
"As the most popular online resource for up-to-the-minute entertainment news, E! Online requires top-notch speed, performance, and reliability for the delivery of its Web content," said Jeff Mayzurk, vice president of technology for E! Online. "Akamai's FreeFlow service not only increases the speed at which our content reaches the end user, but enables us to handle large spikes in traffic, which are sometimes as much as 1000% of our average traffic level, during our major entertainment events. Through the use of FreeFlow, we can ensure our end users a reliable, compelling Web experience."
About E! Online
E! Online (http://www.eonline.com), Entertainment's Home PageTM, delivers original entertainment news, featuring celebrity gossip, movie, TV and music information to entertainment enthusiasts through an interactive format, maximizing the brand awareness and reach of E! Entertainment Television. Based in Los Angeles, California, E! Online reaches over 5.3 million, unique U.S. adult users monthly, and is the #1 entertainment news and celebrity gossip destination on the World Wide Web. E! Online also operates shop.eonline.com, "your one-stop shop for entertainment merchandiseSM." E! Online is a wholly owned subsidiary of E! Entertainment Networks, which is currently available to 60 million cable and direct broadcast satellite subscribers in the U.S.
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery services. Following the April 20 acquisition of INTERVU, the company serves over 1,000 customers. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 3,000 servers in over 45 countries directly connected to more than 160 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
*As measured by @plan, Spring 2000
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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Customer continues Akamai's lead in content delivery services in the entertainment industry
CAMBRIDGE, MA, May 4, 2000 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high-performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, today announced that E! Online (www.eonline.com), the premier entertainment news site on the Web, joins the list of leading Web properties that rely on Akamai's services for high-speed, reliable delivery of all forms of Web content, streaming media, and applications.Reaching more than 5.3 million unique, U.S. adult users per month*, E! Online delivers original, up-to-the-minute entertainment news, celebrity gossip, reviews, games, premiere live event coverage, and entertainment-related merchandise to movie, TV, and music enthusiasts worldwide. E! Online selected Akamai's FreeFlowSM service to distribute its rich media content, including images and multimedia files, via Akamai's globally distributed network of more than 3,000 servers, resulting in enhanced performance for E! Online's end users.
"Akamai continues to be the dominant choice of entertainment businesses looking to enhance the online experience for users," said Earl Galleher, vice president, worldwide sales and support, Akamai. "We're happy to help E! Online deliver the kind of solid performance that keeps users coming back again and again."
"As the most popular online resource for up-to-the-minute entertainment news, E! Online requires top-notch speed, performance, and reliability for the delivery of its Web content," said Jeff Mayzurk, vice president of technology for E! Online. "Akamai's FreeFlow service not only increases the speed at which our content reaches the end user, but enables us to handle large spikes in traffic, which are sometimes as much as 1000% of our average traffic level, during our major entertainment events. Through the use of FreeFlow, we can ensure our end users a reliable, compelling Web experience."
About E! Online
E! Online (http://www.eonline.com), Entertainment's Home PageTM, delivers original entertainment news, featuring celebrity gossip, movie, TV and music information to entertainment enthusiasts through an interactive format, maximizing the brand awareness and reach of E! Entertainment Television. Based in Los Angeles, California, E! Online reaches over 5.3 million, unique U.S. adult users monthly, and is the #1 entertainment news and celebrity gossip destination on the World Wide Web. E! Online also operates shop.eonline.com, "your one-stop shop for entertainment merchandiseSM." E! Online is a wholly owned subsidiary of E! Entertainment Networks, which is currently available to 60 million cable and direct broadcast satellite subscribers in the U.S.
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery services. Following the April 20 acquisition of INTERVU, the company serves over 1,000 customers. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 3,000 servers in over 45 countries directly connected to more than 160 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
*As measured by @plan, Spring 2000
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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.
