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Akamai Extends Relationship with Yahoo! for Global Content Delivery Services
Yahoo!, one of Akamai's charter customers, uses FreeFlow to enhance its speed, performance, and reliability by delivering rich content from Akamai's globally distributed network of more than 4,000 servers located close to Internet end users. As Yahoo!'s global reach has grown, Akamai's highly scalable infrastructure has helped Yahoo! to continue to meet growing user demand and provide consumers with a compelling and consistent online experience. In addition, one year after using FreeFlow, Yahoo! has witnessed a measurable performance increase.
"Yahoo! quickly established itself as an Internet leader, and it's a great compliment to the effort of the team at Akamai that Yahoo!'s global network relies on us to help deliver some of the Web's most popular content in the most rapid and reliable manner," said Paul Sagan, president and chief operating officer, Akamai. "We value Yahoo!'s input as a customer and long-standing endorsement of our technology."
Yahoo! signed on as an Akamai charter customer in June 1999, and since that time, has seen its global Internet audience more than double from 60 million to 145 million individuals. Earlier this year, Yahoo! expanded its use of Akamai's services and began utilizing the company's recently announced FirstPointSM service to optimally direct Yahoo! traffic to mirrored server locations. Combining the two services helps to ensure that Yahoo! users continue to have the best possible online experience.
"Akamai's FreeFlow service has helped us maintain leadership in a highly competitive industry by ensuring superior performance, speed, and reliability," said Farzad Nazem, Yahoo!'s chief technology officer. "One year after implementing this service, we remain impressed with the complete functionality and high-quality results that Akamai provides."
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, serving over 1,000 customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 4,000 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.
Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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Yahoo!'s year-long use of Akamai's FreeFlowSM service yields significant performance increase; FreeFlow scales to support more than 100 percent growth in Yahoo! audience
Cambridge, MA, June 26, 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 Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet communications, commerce, and media company serving 145 million individuals worldwide, has extended its agreement with Akamai for use of the FreeFlow service, recognized for superior speed, reliability and performance in the delivery of Web content.Yahoo!, one of Akamai's charter customers, uses FreeFlow to enhance its speed, performance, and reliability by delivering rich content from Akamai's globally distributed network of more than 4,000 servers located close to Internet end users. As Yahoo!'s global reach has grown, Akamai's highly scalable infrastructure has helped Yahoo! to continue to meet growing user demand and provide consumers with a compelling and consistent online experience. In addition, one year after using FreeFlow, Yahoo! has witnessed a measurable performance increase.
"Yahoo! quickly established itself as an Internet leader, and it's a great compliment to the effort of the team at Akamai that Yahoo!'s global network relies on us to help deliver some of the Web's most popular content in the most rapid and reliable manner," said Paul Sagan, president and chief operating officer, Akamai. "We value Yahoo!'s input as a customer and long-standing endorsement of our technology."
Yahoo! signed on as an Akamai charter customer in June 1999, and since that time, has seen its global Internet audience more than double from 60 million to 145 million individuals. Earlier this year, Yahoo! expanded its use of Akamai's services and began utilizing the company's recently announced FirstPointSM service to optimally direct Yahoo! traffic to mirrored server locations. Combining the two services helps to ensure that Yahoo! users continue to have the best possible online experience.
"Akamai's FreeFlow service has helped us maintain leadership in a highly competitive industry by ensuring superior performance, speed, and reliability," said Farzad Nazem, Yahoo!'s chief technology officer. "One year after implementing this service, we remain impressed with the complete functionality and high-quality results that Akamai provides."
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, serving over 1,000 customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 4,000 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.
Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
