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Akamai to Power World's Largest Interactive Poll With Industry-Leading Content Delivery Network
The Planet Project - "Your Voice, Your World" - will be administered over four days in November, enabling millions of people around the world to instantly share and compare their views and opinions. The poll will contain multiple questions on topics aimed at generating thought-provoking and entertaining responses on a global scale. Envisioned and developed by 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS), the Planet Project illustrates the company's commitment to creating a global community connected through simple-to-use networking technology. Akamai's services will enable Planet Project participants to access the poll and accompanying content and streaming media with top-notch speed, performance and reliability, regardless of simultaneous users and congestion caused by Internet bottlenecks.
"Given the scope of this first-ever, worldwide interactive poll, 3Com elected to work with a group of technology leaders to deliver a compelling experience with superior execution for poll participants," said Bruce Claflin, president and COO, 3Com. "Akamai's technology and expertise will help ensure the high-quality delivery of the site's compelling content and dependability of the Planet Project site."
"A collaborative, online event of this magnitude demonstrates the power of the Internet to connect people and cultures," said Paul Sagan, president and COO, Akamai. "We're excited to play an important role in the Planet Project by enhancing Web performance and supporting the unpredictable volumes of global traffic which this event is sure to generate."
Akamai's FreeFlow and FreeFlow Streaming services improve Web site speed, performance, and reliability by delivering rich Web content and streaming media from Akamai's globally distributed network of servers located close to Internet end users. Akamai's core technology analyzes real-time Internet conditions to deliver all forms of content and streaming media via the optimal Akamai server at the edges of the Internet, reaching end users in the fastest and most reliable way. Akamai's FirstPoint service complements Akamai's FreeFlow and FreeFlow Streaming services through global load balancing between geographically distributed Web servers to ensure that users access content from the best performing server location.
About 3Com Corporation
3Com simplifies how people connect to information and services through easy-to-use connectivity products and solutions for consumers and commercial organizations. The company also provides access infrastructures and IP services platforms for network service providers. For further information, visit www.3com.com or the press site at www.3com.com/pressbox.
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, 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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3Com Corporation Enlists Akamai as Exclusive Content Delivery Provider for the Planet ProjectTM
Cambridge, MA, October 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 its role as the exclusive provider of content and streaming media delivery services and global traffic management for the Planet Project - an unprecedented, Internet-based global poll of the human race. Akamai's FreeFlowSM, FreeFlowSM Streaming, and FirstPointSM services will provide high quality, reliable delivery of the Project's engaging web content and high availability of the Project's official web site (www.planetproject.com).The Planet Project - "Your Voice, Your World" - will be administered over four days in November, enabling millions of people around the world to instantly share and compare their views and opinions. The poll will contain multiple questions on topics aimed at generating thought-provoking and entertaining responses on a global scale. Envisioned and developed by 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS), the Planet Project illustrates the company's commitment to creating a global community connected through simple-to-use networking technology. Akamai's services will enable Planet Project participants to access the poll and accompanying content and streaming media with top-notch speed, performance and reliability, regardless of simultaneous users and congestion caused by Internet bottlenecks.
"Given the scope of this first-ever, worldwide interactive poll, 3Com elected to work with a group of technology leaders to deliver a compelling experience with superior execution for poll participants," said Bruce Claflin, president and COO, 3Com. "Akamai's technology and expertise will help ensure the high-quality delivery of the site's compelling content and dependability of the Planet Project site."
"A collaborative, online event of this magnitude demonstrates the power of the Internet to connect people and cultures," said Paul Sagan, president and COO, Akamai. "We're excited to play an important role in the Planet Project by enhancing Web performance and supporting the unpredictable volumes of global traffic which this event is sure to generate."
Akamai's FreeFlow and FreeFlow Streaming services improve Web site speed, performance, and reliability by delivering rich Web content and streaming media from Akamai's globally distributed network of servers located close to Internet end users. Akamai's core technology analyzes real-time Internet conditions to deliver all forms of content and streaming media via the optimal Akamai server at the edges of the Internet, reaching end users in the fastest and most reliable way. Akamai's FirstPoint service complements Akamai's FreeFlow and FreeFlow Streaming services through global load balancing between geographically distributed Web servers to ensure that users access content from the best performing server location.
About 3Com Corporation
3Com simplifies how people connect to information and services through easy-to-use connectivity products and solutions for consumers and commercial organizations. The company also provides access infrastructures and IP services platforms for network service providers. For further information, visit www.3com.com or the press site at www.3com.com/pressbox.
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, 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.
