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Patent Issued for Akamai's Internet Content Delivery Service
Cambridge, MA, September 18, 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 today the issuance of a new patent that covers several innovative aspects of the company's industry-leading FreeFlowTM content delivery service. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703, entitled "Global Hosting System," on August 22. The '703 patent, granted to MIT in the names of Tom Leighton, Akamai's Chief Scientist, and Danny Lewin, Akamai's Chief Technology Officer, has been licensed to Akamai on an exclusive basis.
FreeFlow, which transforms the Internet from an inconsistent transport medium into a high-performance network, leverages Akamai's massive, distributed global network of servers that work together to efficiently place content and applications close to Web users. The service accelerates and dramatically improves Web site performance. The '703 patent complements a portfolio of content delivery patents that Akamai owns as a result of its acquisition of INTERVU earlier this year.
"Akamai has achieved its substantial market-leading position through superior customer value, win-win relationships with its network partners, and breakthrough technology that works for a growing base of over 2,100 customers," said George Conrades, chairman and CEO of Akamai. "The issuance of this new patent validates our technological leadership, and it confirms the unique nature of Akamai's FreeFlow service. Patents are just one element in our strategy to build and maintain our competitive advantage, and to increase shareholder value."
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, serving over 2,100 customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 4,200 servers in 50 countries directly connected to 225 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
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, a challenge, invalidation or circumvention of any of Akamai's patent rights, 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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| Jeff Young Akamai Technologies 617-250-3913 jyoung@akamai.com |
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Cambridge, MA, September 18, 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 today the issuance of a new patent that covers several innovative aspects of the company's industry-leading FreeFlowTM content delivery service. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703, entitled "Global Hosting System," on August 22. The '703 patent, granted to MIT in the names of Tom Leighton, Akamai's Chief Scientist, and Danny Lewin, Akamai's Chief Technology Officer, has been licensed to Akamai on an exclusive basis.
FreeFlow, which transforms the Internet from an inconsistent transport medium into a high-performance network, leverages Akamai's massive, distributed global network of servers that work together to efficiently place content and applications close to Web users. The service accelerates and dramatically improves Web site performance. The '703 patent complements a portfolio of content delivery patents that Akamai owns as a result of its acquisition of INTERVU earlier this year.
"Akamai has achieved its substantial market-leading position through superior customer value, win-win relationships with its network partners, and breakthrough technology that works for a growing base of over 2,100 customers," said George Conrades, chairman and CEO of Akamai. "The issuance of this new patent validates our technological leadership, and it confirms the unique nature of Akamai's FreeFlow service. Patents are just one element in our strategy to build and maintain our competitive advantage, and to increase shareholder value."
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, serving over 2,100 customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 4,200 servers in 50 countries directly connected to 225 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
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Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
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, a challenge, invalidation or circumvention of any of Akamai's patent rights, 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.
