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Akamai Demonstrates in Europe Live Web Broadband Streaming Media Delivered at 1 Megabit per Second
Wolfgang Stähle, president of Akamai Europe, said: "The convergence of digital technologies and broadcast media creates unprecedented opportunities in Europe and we are very excited to be involved in the digital broadcast revolution. Streaming media is becoming essential to the next phase of the Internet's evolution, and Akamai's globally distributed network means that we can offer leading-edge streaming solutions with unparalleled quality, reliability and performance."
This live streaming from New York will demonstrate that video streams can be delivered seamlessly from satellite to terrestrial networks with real-time decision and performance monitoring. Using Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service, the 1 Megabit/second streams will be delivered with unmatched quality across Akamai's globally distributed multi-network server infrastructure.
Akamai intends to use this world-class streaming technology to support all major formats. Akamai's hybrid satellite and terrestrial Internet delivery network also supports other multimedia applications such as software downloads.
Akamai already has a strong presence in Europe - its global network is the largest of its kind in Europe and is set to continue to expand rapidly. In addition, Akamai is currently deployed in 17 European countries and has formed partnerships with 27 leading European network providers. Akamai is well placed to cater for the European market through its headquarters in Germany and local offices in France and the UK.
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 is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool. Further information is available at www.akamai.com.
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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Leader in Internet content delivery and streaming media offers European businesses significant improvement in performance for Internet broadcasts
London, UK - 10 October 2000 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications will be demonstrating its live broadcast-quality Internet streaming capabilities by showing for the first time in Europe a 1 Mbps live-stream on its stand at Streaming Media 2000. During the three days, October 10th -12th, Akamai will broadcast direct from Times Square in New York with live, ten-minute interviews with passers by every hour through a hybrid delivery infrastructure.Wolfgang Stähle, president of Akamai Europe, said: "The convergence of digital technologies and broadcast media creates unprecedented opportunities in Europe and we are very excited to be involved in the digital broadcast revolution. Streaming media is becoming essential to the next phase of the Internet's evolution, and Akamai's globally distributed network means that we can offer leading-edge streaming solutions with unparalleled quality, reliability and performance."
This live streaming from New York will demonstrate that video streams can be delivered seamlessly from satellite to terrestrial networks with real-time decision and performance monitoring. Using Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service, the 1 Megabit/second streams will be delivered with unmatched quality across Akamai's globally distributed multi-network server infrastructure.
Akamai intends to use this world-class streaming technology to support all major formats. Akamai's hybrid satellite and terrestrial Internet delivery network also supports other multimedia applications such as software downloads.
Akamai already has a strong presence in Europe - its global network is the largest of its kind in Europe and is set to continue to expand rapidly. In addition, Akamai is currently deployed in 17 European countries and has formed partnerships with 27 leading European network providers. Akamai is well placed to cater for the European market through its headquarters in Germany and local offices in France and the UK.
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 is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool. Further information is available at www.akamai.com.
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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.
