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Akamai and KPNQwest Sign Agreement to Enhance Internet Experience for European Businesses
As outlined in the agreement, KPNQwest has committed to resell Akamai's Internet content delivery services throughout Europe as part of its value-added offerings to its customers requiring access to content beyond the reach of KPNQwest's European footprint. Akamai's services bring measurably greater speed, performance, and reliability by delivering rich content from Akamai's globally distributed network of thousands of edge servers located close to Internet end users. Akamai's intelligent solution for optimizing the delivery of all forms of content enables KPNQwest to ensure significantly faster, more reliable, and higher performance end-user experiences. Akamai's rich platform of services also ensures that KPNQwest customers can retrieve data on the use of their web-based services.
Julf Helsingius, Chief Technology Officer of KPNQwest, said: "We selected Akamai because it offers a robust and expansive global network for delivering bandwidth-rich content. Akamai is an important contributor to our mission of deploying the most extensive, facilities based, content distribution network in Europe. KPNQwest's extensive end-to-end network combined with Akamai's intelligent services and proven expertise in content delivery, creates a scalable platform for the deployment of high value, revenue-generating network services."
"KPNQwest's high-quality network is critical to Akamai's success in Europe," said Danny Lewin, Chief Technology Officer, Akamai. "This strategic relationship is going to help redefine the Internet experience for European content providers and their end users, and we look forward to developing additional value added services together with KPNQwest."
"This is another sign of the Internet's incredible growth in Europe," said Wolfgang Staehle, President, Akamai Europe. "Akamai's highly successful program in the U.S. for enhancing Web performance is quickly translating to Europe and across the globe. This relationship joins two leaders in their space, resulting in a best-of-breed solution for European e-Businesses."
About KPNQwest
KPNQwest (NASDAQ & ASE: KQIP) is a leading facilities-based, pan-European provider of data-centric services based on Internet Protocol (IP). It is deploying a technologically advanced 20,000 km fibre-optic network connecting 50 cities throughout Europe and provides a full portfolio of data-centric IP-based services and other advanced telecommunications services, including a pan-European Digital Subscriber Line service. KPNQwest is one of the largest business ISPs in Europe with operations in 15 countries. KPNQwest has twelve CyberCenters and has announced plans to build an additional eighteen 10,000m2 CyberCenters across Europe, on its high-capacity fiber-optic network to provide web-hosting, application sharing and telehousing services. Website: www.kpnqwest.com
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 Web properties. 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.
This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. Readers are referred to the written prospectus relating to the initial public offering and the related registration statement filed by KPNQwest with the SEC, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including failure to complete our network as planned and on time, failure of European Internet use to increase as expected, significant competition, rapid technological change and adverse changes in the regulatory environment. KPNQwest undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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| Jeff Young Akamai Technologies 617-250-3913 jyoung@akamai.com |
--or-- | Piers Schreiber KPNQwest +31 23 568 7612 piers.schreiber@kpnqwest.com |
- KPNQwest becomes first European reseller of Akamai's content delivery services
- Akamai selected to deliver high-volume, bandwidth-intensive content hosted at KPNQwest CyberCentersTM
As outlined in the agreement, KPNQwest has committed to resell Akamai's Internet content delivery services throughout Europe as part of its value-added offerings to its customers requiring access to content beyond the reach of KPNQwest's European footprint. Akamai's services bring measurably greater speed, performance, and reliability by delivering rich content from Akamai's globally distributed network of thousands of edge servers located close to Internet end users. Akamai's intelligent solution for optimizing the delivery of all forms of content enables KPNQwest to ensure significantly faster, more reliable, and higher performance end-user experiences. Akamai's rich platform of services also ensures that KPNQwest customers can retrieve data on the use of their web-based services.
Julf Helsingius, Chief Technology Officer of KPNQwest, said: "We selected Akamai because it offers a robust and expansive global network for delivering bandwidth-rich content. Akamai is an important contributor to our mission of deploying the most extensive, facilities based, content distribution network in Europe. KPNQwest's extensive end-to-end network combined with Akamai's intelligent services and proven expertise in content delivery, creates a scalable platform for the deployment of high value, revenue-generating network services."
"KPNQwest's high-quality network is critical to Akamai's success in Europe," said Danny Lewin, Chief Technology Officer, Akamai. "This strategic relationship is going to help redefine the Internet experience for European content providers and their end users, and we look forward to developing additional value added services together with KPNQwest."
"This is another sign of the Internet's incredible growth in Europe," said Wolfgang Staehle, President, Akamai Europe. "Akamai's highly successful program in the U.S. for enhancing Web performance is quickly translating to Europe and across the globe. This relationship joins two leaders in their space, resulting in a best-of-breed solution for European e-Businesses."
About KPNQwest
KPNQwest (NASDAQ & ASE: KQIP) is a leading facilities-based, pan-European provider of data-centric services based on Internet Protocol (IP). It is deploying a technologically advanced 20,000 km fibre-optic network connecting 50 cities throughout Europe and provides a full portfolio of data-centric IP-based services and other advanced telecommunications services, including a pan-European Digital Subscriber Line service. KPNQwest is one of the largest business ISPs in Europe with operations in 15 countries. KPNQwest has twelve CyberCenters and has announced plans to build an additional eighteen 10,000m2 CyberCenters across Europe, on its high-capacity fiber-optic network to provide web-hosting, application sharing and telehousing services. Website: www.kpnqwest.com
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 Web properties. 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.
This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. Readers are referred to the written prospectus relating to the initial public offering and the related registration statement filed by KPNQwest with the SEC, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including failure to complete our network as planned and on time, failure of European Internet use to increase as expected, significant competition, rapid technological change and adverse changes in the regulatory environment. KPNQwest undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
