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Symantec Enlists Akamai's EdgeSuite Service for Top Web Performance
Symantec provides an extensive range of content and network security solutions to more than 100 million customers around the world, ranging from some of the world's largest corporate enterprises, government agencies and higher education institutions, to small businesses and individuals. The company is a leading provider of virus protection, vulnerability assessment, intrusion prevention, Internet content and e-mail filtering, remote management technologies and security services. By implementing Akamai's EdgeSuite service, Symantec will be able to measurably enhance the performance and availability of its Web site, regardless of unpredictable levels of traffic caused by customer requests for Symantec's Internet security solutions and information. Symantec will also be able to improve its worldwide reach via Akamai's globally distributed network of 8,000 edge servers located close to Internet end users.
"Symantec is committed to providing the best possible Web performance for our customers, who rely on our solutions to fortify their businesses around the clock," said Neil Kole, Symantec's director of Worldwide Communications. "Akamai's EdgeSuite service is a key component of our strategy for delivering unmatched performance on a global scale while minimizing infrastructure costs and headaches."
Akamai's EdgeSuite offering, a complete suite of integrated services, allows Web sites to reap the performance, scalability, and reliability benefits of content delivery across an entire Web site - including static and dynamic content, embedded objects, streaming media, and HTML. The EdgeSuite service enables the generation and delivery of dynamic content by constructing Web pages from component pieces that can be targeted and delivered from optimal locations for each end user. Given today's challenged IT budgets, EdgeSuite allows Web-assisted and Web-dependent businesses to outsource critical Web infrastructure to Akamai, realizing significant cost savings and measurably improving performance and reliability at the same time.
"Next-generation Internet content delivery is all about absorbing the complexities and costs associated with Web infrastructure and providing greater performance and reliability at the Internet's edge," said Mike Campbell, vice president of sales, Akamai. "We're thrilled to have validation for EdgeSuite from a leading Internet authority like Symantec, which places the utmost level of importance on the reliability of its Web presence."
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider, serving more than 3,600 customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 8,000 servers in 55 countries directly connected within 473 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.
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Akamai to Boost Web Performance While Minimizing Infrastructure Burden, Expenses
INTERNET WORLD - LOS ANGELES - MARCH 14, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Inc., (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP), today announced that Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC), a world leader in Internet security, has chosen Akamai's EdgeSuiteSM service to cost-effectively manage its vital Web infrastructure at the Internet's edge while maximizing site performance and reliability.Symantec provides an extensive range of content and network security solutions to more than 100 million customers around the world, ranging from some of the world's largest corporate enterprises, government agencies and higher education institutions, to small businesses and individuals. The company is a leading provider of virus protection, vulnerability assessment, intrusion prevention, Internet content and e-mail filtering, remote management technologies and security services. By implementing Akamai's EdgeSuite service, Symantec will be able to measurably enhance the performance and availability of its Web site, regardless of unpredictable levels of traffic caused by customer requests for Symantec's Internet security solutions and information. Symantec will also be able to improve its worldwide reach via Akamai's globally distributed network of 8,000 edge servers located close to Internet end users.
"Symantec is committed to providing the best possible Web performance for our customers, who rely on our solutions to fortify their businesses around the clock," said Neil Kole, Symantec's director of Worldwide Communications. "Akamai's EdgeSuite service is a key component of our strategy for delivering unmatched performance on a global scale while minimizing infrastructure costs and headaches."
Akamai's EdgeSuite offering, a complete suite of integrated services, allows Web sites to reap the performance, scalability, and reliability benefits of content delivery across an entire Web site - including static and dynamic content, embedded objects, streaming media, and HTML. The EdgeSuite service enables the generation and delivery of dynamic content by constructing Web pages from component pieces that can be targeted and delivered from optimal locations for each end user. Given today's challenged IT budgets, EdgeSuite allows Web-assisted and Web-dependent businesses to outsource critical Web infrastructure to Akamai, realizing significant cost savings and measurably improving performance and reliability at the same time.
"Next-generation Internet content delivery is all about absorbing the complexities and costs associated with Web infrastructure and providing greater performance and reliability at the Internet's edge," said Mike Campbell, vice president of sales, Akamai. "We're thrilled to have validation for EdgeSuite from a leading Internet authority like Symantec, which places the utmost level of importance on the reliability of its Web presence."
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider, serving more than 3,600 customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 8,000 servers in 55 countries directly connected within 473 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.
