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Lycos First to Deploy Akamai's Next-Generation Dynamic Content Delivery Service
Deploying Akamai's next-generation content delivery service enables Lycos to efficiently create dynamic and relevant content on a massive network infrastructure of distributed edge servers. Visitors to Lycos' Websites will benefit from dynamic page generation at the edge of the Internet by experiencing unparalleled performance and reliability in the delivery of specialized content.
Lycos, a current FreeFlowSM service customer, has been working closely with Akamai as the charter beta customer for dynamic page generation. Lycos plans to use this service to enable distributed content generation at the Internet's edge for the Lycos Network of properties including Lycos.com, Hotbot, and Gamesville.
"As the amount of Internet traffic grows and becomes more specialized, Lycos is creating a Web experience that meets each of our visitor's individual interests," said Tim Wright, Chief Information Officer, Lycos, Inc. "As a FreeFlow customer, we've seen first hand the power and the value of Akamai's network, technology and customer service across our full portfolio of products from MyLycos to Gamesville, Tripod to Matchmaker. EdgeSuite enables us to deliver much broader, more dynamic content with the speed and reliability we've come to expect from Akamai, while greatly lowering infrastructure maintenance costs."
Revolutionizing the next generation of Internet content delivery, EdgeSuite enables the delivery of all types of dynamic content. EdgeSuite gives content providers comprehensive, intelligent control over their content through an Akamaization process that is simple and transparent to end-users. With EdgeSuite, the content provider has the flexibility to control content cacheability, authentication, edge processing, fault tolerance, as well as other features.
About Lycos, Inc.
Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, one of the most visited hubs on the Internet reaching nearly one out of every two U.S. Web users. The Lycos Network is a unified set of Web sites, attracting a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web search and navigation resources; Web community and communications services including free homepage building, free Web-based e-mail, clubs, chat, instant messaging; a personalized My Lycos start page; a comprehensive shopping center featuring more than 3,100 merchants; and an assortment of compelling content such as games, music, news, fun and educational information and activities for kids as well as information about investing, technology, entertainment, sports, small business, travel and more. The Lycos Network is composed of Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News, Webmonkey, Sonique, Quote, Gamesville, Lycos Zone and Matchmaker. Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada and Latin America.
On May 16, Lycos, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement with Terra Networks, S.A. (MC: TRR; NASDAQ: TRRA), a global Internet company and the leading provider of Internet access and interactive content and services to the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, under which Terra will acquire Lycos in a stock-for-stock transaction. Upon completion of the transaction, Lycos shareholders will own approximately 41.6% to 49.9% of the new company, Terra Lycos. The formation of Terra Lycos is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval.
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 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.
©2000 Lycos, Inc. - Lycos® is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University. All other trademarks or service marks mentioned herein are those of Lycos or their respective owners. All rights reserved.
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New service to enable Lycos to deliver premium, dynamic and specialized content to end-users with enhanced reliability and efficiency
CAMBRIDGE, MA - October 18, 2000 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) today announced that Lycos, Inc. has signed on as the charter customer for Akamai's new dynamic page delivery service, EdgeSuiteSM — a full-site content delivery solution for e-businesses. Akamai unveiled the service today in a separate announcement.Deploying Akamai's next-generation content delivery service enables Lycos to efficiently create dynamic and relevant content on a massive network infrastructure of distributed edge servers. Visitors to Lycos' Websites will benefit from dynamic page generation at the edge of the Internet by experiencing unparalleled performance and reliability in the delivery of specialized content.
Lycos, a current FreeFlowSM service customer, has been working closely with Akamai as the charter beta customer for dynamic page generation. Lycos plans to use this service to enable distributed content generation at the Internet's edge for the Lycos Network of properties including Lycos.com, Hotbot, and Gamesville.
"As the amount of Internet traffic grows and becomes more specialized, Lycos is creating a Web experience that meets each of our visitor's individual interests," said Tim Wright, Chief Information Officer, Lycos, Inc. "As a FreeFlow customer, we've seen first hand the power and the value of Akamai's network, technology and customer service across our full portfolio of products from MyLycos to Gamesville, Tripod to Matchmaker. EdgeSuite enables us to deliver much broader, more dynamic content with the speed and reliability we've come to expect from Akamai, while greatly lowering infrastructure maintenance costs."
Revolutionizing the next generation of Internet content delivery, EdgeSuite enables the delivery of all types of dynamic content. EdgeSuite gives content providers comprehensive, intelligent control over their content through an Akamaization process that is simple and transparent to end-users. With EdgeSuite, the content provider has the flexibility to control content cacheability, authentication, edge processing, fault tolerance, as well as other features.
About Lycos, Inc.
Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, one of the most visited hubs on the Internet reaching nearly one out of every two U.S. Web users. The Lycos Network is a unified set of Web sites, attracting a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web search and navigation resources; Web community and communications services including free homepage building, free Web-based e-mail, clubs, chat, instant messaging; a personalized My Lycos start page; a comprehensive shopping center featuring more than 3,100 merchants; and an assortment of compelling content such as games, music, news, fun and educational information and activities for kids as well as information about investing, technology, entertainment, sports, small business, travel and more. The Lycos Network is composed of Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News, Webmonkey, Sonique, Quote, Gamesville, Lycos Zone and Matchmaker. Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada and Latin America.
On May 16, Lycos, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement with Terra Networks, S.A. (MC: TRR; NASDAQ: TRRA), a global Internet company and the leading provider of Internet access and interactive content and services to the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, under which Terra will acquire Lycos in a stock-for-stock transaction. Upon completion of the transaction, Lycos shareholders will own approximately 41.6% to 49.9% of the new company, Terra Lycos. The formation of Terra Lycos is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval.
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.
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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.
©2000 Lycos, Inc. - Lycos® is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University. All other trademarks or service marks mentioned herein are those of Lycos or their respective owners. All rights reserved.
