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Resonate and Akamai Jointly Create Solutions for Enhanced and Secure Content Delivery Services
How the Resonate Akamaizer software works
In order for content providers to use Akamai's high-speed content delivery network, they must first convert embedded Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) into Akamai Resource Locators (ARLs), a process called "Akamaization." As requests come in from clients for Web content, Resonate's Akamaizer software dynamically intercepts the content and performs the Akamaization conversion. The end user is then dynamically directed to the optimal Akamai server located near the end user. This process speeds response times and increases reliability as content is delivered through the Akamai network. The "on-the-fly" translation makes it faster and easier for e-businesses to meet end users' demands for speedy, reliable Web performance. In addition, the Resonate Akamaizer software can enhance the delivery of secure Web based transactions, such as online trading or purchases, while dynamically controlling the Akamaization process by enabling SSL-based requests to be Akamaized and encrypted at the server and then returned to the user.
Leveraging Resonate's distributed software model, the Resonate Akamaizer software resides on each of the customer's web servers and requires no additional hardware when additional servers are added. The Resonate Akamaizer software also minimizes the risk of any single point-of-failure or bottlenecks often associated with many hardware solutions.
"In today's competitive e-business marketplace, the advantages of high-speed, reliable content delivery help to increase customer satisfaction and retention," said Ravi Sundararajan, director, business development, Akamai. "Working with Resonate and Akamai, e-businesses will benefit from a best-of-breed solution for Internet services management and Web performance."
Akamai provides e-businesses with a highly-reliable, high-performance platform for the creation and delivery of Web content, streaming media, and applications. Akamai's core technology analyzes real-time Internet conditions to deliver all forms of content via the most efficient route to the edges of the Internet, reaching end users with measurably greater speed and reliability.
"The Akamai and Resonate alliance underscores both companies' missions to transform the way people access and receive information over the Internet by providing unmatched performance and reliability," said Karen Styres, vice president of marketing for Resonate. "The Resonate Akamaizer extends our iSM platform to bring dynamic and automated control over complex Internet environments."
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.
About Resonate
Resonate is a leading provider of Internet Services Management (iSM), a distributed software and services solution that maximizes service levels of e-business applications to ensure optimum user satisfaction. The Resonate iSM platform monitors the entire e-business infrastructure-the network, systems and applications-and then takes automated real-time corrective action to ensure high availability and predictable performance of e-business applications. Hundreds of customers worldwide including Bank of America, Charles Schwab, Chase Manhattan Corporation, DoubleClick, E*TRADE, Federal Express, Johnson & Johnson and NextCard, among others rely on Resonate's patented, distributed software and services for their mission-critical, e-business initiatives. Resonate is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
For more information about how Resonate is "Keeping E-Business Open for BusinessTM," visit http://www.resonate.com.
Resonate is a registered trademark, the Resonate logo and Keeping E-Business Open for Business are trademarks of Resonate, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Matters discussed in this news release involving expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, intentions, or strategies are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and are made under their safe-harbor provisions. Such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Some of the specific factors that may cause actual results to differ include: market acceptance of our products and product enhancements, changes in the fundamental technology underlying Internet Services Management, the release of competitive products and other actions by competitors, the need to maintain and expand our sales channels and our relationships with key participants in the Internet marketplace, rapid technological and market change, and economic downturns in either domestic or foreign markets, among others. Additional risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected are discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our prospectus on Form 424(b) filed August 3, 2000. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management's analysis only as of the date hereof. Resonate undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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, 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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| Felicia Spagnoli Akamai Technologies 617-613-2525 spagnoli@akamai.com |
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Resonate's Software "Akamaizer" Features SSL Support
SUNNYVALE, Calif., and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 19, 2000 - Resonate Inc. (NASDAQ: RSNT), the leading provider of Internet Services Management (iSM) solutions, and 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 a technology integration and product development alliance to provide secure and enhanced content delivery services. As part of Resonate's iSM solution, Resonate will offer a powerful AkamaizerTM product to help optimize content delivery by quickly and efficiently directing users to the closest available content on Akamai's globally distributed network. The Resonate Akamaizer software offers a secure yet dynamic process critical for high-performance Internet content delivery.How the Resonate Akamaizer software works
In order for content providers to use Akamai's high-speed content delivery network, they must first convert embedded Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) into Akamai Resource Locators (ARLs), a process called "Akamaization." As requests come in from clients for Web content, Resonate's Akamaizer software dynamically intercepts the content and performs the Akamaization conversion. The end user is then dynamically directed to the optimal Akamai server located near the end user. This process speeds response times and increases reliability as content is delivered through the Akamai network. The "on-the-fly" translation makes it faster and easier for e-businesses to meet end users' demands for speedy, reliable Web performance. In addition, the Resonate Akamaizer software can enhance the delivery of secure Web based transactions, such as online trading or purchases, while dynamically controlling the Akamaization process by enabling SSL-based requests to be Akamaized and encrypted at the server and then returned to the user.
Leveraging Resonate's distributed software model, the Resonate Akamaizer software resides on each of the customer's web servers and requires no additional hardware when additional servers are added. The Resonate Akamaizer software also minimizes the risk of any single point-of-failure or bottlenecks often associated with many hardware solutions.
"In today's competitive e-business marketplace, the advantages of high-speed, reliable content delivery help to increase customer satisfaction and retention," said Ravi Sundararajan, director, business development, Akamai. "Working with Resonate and Akamai, e-businesses will benefit from a best-of-breed solution for Internet services management and Web performance."
Akamai provides e-businesses with a highly-reliable, high-performance platform for the creation and delivery of Web content, streaming media, and applications. Akamai's core technology analyzes real-time Internet conditions to deliver all forms of content via the most efficient route to the edges of the Internet, reaching end users with measurably greater speed and reliability.
"The Akamai and Resonate alliance underscores both companies' missions to transform the way people access and receive information over the Internet by providing unmatched performance and reliability," said Karen Styres, vice president of marketing for Resonate. "The Resonate Akamaizer extends our iSM platform to bring dynamic and automated control over complex Internet environments."
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.
About Resonate
Resonate is a leading provider of Internet Services Management (iSM), a distributed software and services solution that maximizes service levels of e-business applications to ensure optimum user satisfaction. The Resonate iSM platform monitors the entire e-business infrastructure-the network, systems and applications-and then takes automated real-time corrective action to ensure high availability and predictable performance of e-business applications. Hundreds of customers worldwide including Bank of America, Charles Schwab, Chase Manhattan Corporation, DoubleClick, E*TRADE, Federal Express, Johnson & Johnson and NextCard, among others rely on Resonate's patented, distributed software and services for their mission-critical, e-business initiatives. Resonate is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
For more information about how Resonate is "Keeping E-Business Open for BusinessTM," visit http://www.resonate.com.
Resonate is a registered trademark, the Resonate logo and Keeping E-Business Open for Business are trademarks of Resonate, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Matters discussed in this news release involving expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, intentions, or strategies are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and are made under their safe-harbor provisions. Such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Some of the specific factors that may cause actual results to differ include: market acceptance of our products and product enhancements, changes in the fundamental technology underlying Internet Services Management, the release of competitive products and other actions by competitors, the need to maintain and expand our sales channels and our relationships with key participants in the Internet marketplace, rapid technological and market change, and economic downturns in either domestic or foreign markets, among others. Additional risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected are discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our prospectus on Form 424(b) filed August 3, 2000. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management's analysis only as of the date hereof. Resonate undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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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, 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.
