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Akamai to Stream Nobel Prize Ceremony
London, UK - 8 December 2000 - Akamai Technologies Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP), will work with Kamera Interactive to stream The Nobel Prize Award ceremony, taking place in Stockholm, to Internet users around the globe. Since 1901, the prestigious Award ceremony has celebrated the Laureates and their acclaimed discoveries or works.
Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service will be used to deliver the Internet broadcast from the Stockholm Concert Hall on December 10 at 4:30 PM C.E.T. The live Internet broadcast will be produced by Kamera, Europe's leading Internet TV company, and available at www.nobel.se. Interviews with the Physics, Chemistry, Medicine or Physiology, Literature and Economics winners will also be delivered using Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service on Nobel e-Museum (www.nobel.se) at a later date.
"Broadcasting The Nobel Prize event over the Internet allows us to reach out to a global audience, raising awareness of the remarkable efforts of all Nobel Prize winners. Last year's broadcast was very well received and we're looking forward to working with Akamai and Kamera to deliver a high quality Internet broadcast for a second time," said Hans Mehlin, The Nobel Foundation.
"End users from around the world logged on to watch last year's broadcast of The Nobel Prize ceremony. The use of Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service coupled with the global reach of our network, will ensure a high quality of the video for end users, regardless of the number of online viewers accessing the 2000 ceremony," said Ian King, Head of Northern Europe Operations for Akamai.
Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service is built upon the Company's EdgeAdvantage platform that uses sophisticated algorithms to monitor the Internet on a real-time basis, understand the location of the requesting user, and make intelligent decisions about the best and most efficient Akamai edge server from which to deliver content to the end user. The FreeFlow Streaming service incorporates Akamai's proprietary SteadyStreamSM technology that sends multiple copies of the same stream to the edges of the Internet and then recombines the streams into the original high-quality format.
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider, serving over 2,800 customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 6,000 servers in 54 countries directly connected within 335 different telecommunications networks. Akamai Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and has European subsidiaries in London, England, Paris, France, and Munich, Germany - which also serves as Akamai's EMEA headquarters.
Further information is available at www.akamai.com.
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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London, UK - 8 December 2000 - Akamai Technologies Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP), will work with Kamera Interactive to stream The Nobel Prize Award ceremony, taking place in Stockholm, to Internet users around the globe. Since 1901, the prestigious Award ceremony has celebrated the Laureates and their acclaimed discoveries or works.
Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service will be used to deliver the Internet broadcast from the Stockholm Concert Hall on December 10 at 4:30 PM C.E.T. The live Internet broadcast will be produced by Kamera, Europe's leading Internet TV company, and available at www.nobel.se. Interviews with the Physics, Chemistry, Medicine or Physiology, Literature and Economics winners will also be delivered using Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service on Nobel e-Museum (www.nobel.se) at a later date.
"Broadcasting The Nobel Prize event over the Internet allows us to reach out to a global audience, raising awareness of the remarkable efforts of all Nobel Prize winners. Last year's broadcast was very well received and we're looking forward to working with Akamai and Kamera to deliver a high quality Internet broadcast for a second time," said Hans Mehlin, The Nobel Foundation.
"End users from around the world logged on to watch last year's broadcast of The Nobel Prize ceremony. The use of Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service coupled with the global reach of our network, will ensure a high quality of the video for end users, regardless of the number of online viewers accessing the 2000 ceremony," said Ian King, Head of Northern Europe Operations for Akamai.
Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service is built upon the Company's EdgeAdvantage platform that uses sophisticated algorithms to monitor the Internet on a real-time basis, understand the location of the requesting user, and make intelligent decisions about the best and most efficient Akamai edge server from which to deliver content to the end user. The FreeFlow Streaming service incorporates Akamai's proprietary SteadyStreamSM technology that sends multiple copies of the same stream to the edges of the Internet and then recombines the streams into the original high-quality format.
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider, serving over 2,800 customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 6,000 servers in 54 countries directly connected within 335 different telecommunications networks. Akamai Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and has European subsidiaries in London, England, Paris, France, and Munich, Germany - which also serves as Akamai's EMEA headquarters.
Further information is available at www.akamai.com.
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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.
