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Leading Urban Network of Portals Selects Akamai for Next-Generation Content Delivery Services
Targeting the needs and interests of the urban community, Theodore Myles Publishing's Afrocentric News Network (www.afrocentricnews.com) is a group of media-rich Web sites, including afrocentricnews.com, dickgregory.com, and urbanradio2000.com, that reaches an audience of millions, offering news, events, health, entertainment, education, and political information. With EdgeSuite, Theodore Myles Publishing's Afrocentric News Network of portals can efficiently create and deliver dynamic and relevant content from Akamai's edge-distributed network with enhanced availability and performance and provide end users with a high-quality, customizable Web experience.
Akamai's EdgeSuite service represents the next generation of Internet content delivery -- completely redefining the way businesses create and deliver their Web sites. EdgeSuite enables the generation and delivery of dynamic content by constructing Web pages from component pieces that can be targeted and delivered from locations optimized for each end user. Leveraging Akamai's global, fault-tolerant network, EdgeSuite is the first suite of services that 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 and HTML.
"Akamai is attacking a mission-critical problem for us. With aggressive plans to expand the Afrocentric News Network, we view EdgeSuite as essential to providing massive scalability to support future growth, both accelerating our time to market and minimizing costs associated with infrastructure build out," said Ted Terry, President and CEO, Theodore Myles Publishing. "EdgeSuite will enable us to keep pace with the technological challenges we'll face well into the future."
In addition to enhancing the day-to-day reliability of Theodore Myles Publishing Web sites, Akamai's services will be used by Theodore Myles Publishing to deliver major events planned by the Afrocentric News Network, providing viewers with a higher quality, more reliable experience. On March 24, Akamai services will deliver a State of the Union Webcast address from Legendary Civil Rights Activist and Humanitarian Dick Gregory. Mr. Gregory's speech, which will focus on the current situation facing our country, can be viewed by accessing the www.dickgregory.com portal.
Terry continued, "Akamai's proven expertise in delivering rich media with superior quality and reliability was instrumental to our decision to deploy EdgeSuite across our entire network of Web portals. An integrated suite of solutions, EdgeSuite enables us to create, publish and promote content on the Internet with maximum reliability and performance, enabling us to reach our community of users with complete confidence."
"Akamai is thrilled to support the full content delivery needs of the Afrocentric News Network," said Mike Campbell, Vice President, Sales, Akamai. "Theodore Myles Publishing's rapid online growth plans combined with its need for dynamic, customizable content delivery, superior site performance, and immediate ROI make it an ideal customer to benefit from EdgeSuite. We're looking forward to helping Theodore Myles Publishing meet the needs of the urban community."
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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| Caryn Converse Akamai Technologies 617-250-4661 converse@akamai.com |
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Akamai's EdgeSuiteSM Service Enables Theodore Myles Publishing's Afrocentric News Network to Deliver Dynamic and Specialized Content with Unparalleled Reliability and Performance
INTERNET WORLD - LOS ANGELES - March 14, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP), today announced that the Afrocentric News Network, a division of Theodore Myles Publishing, Inc., will utilize Akamai's EdgeSuite service across its family of 35 urban Web portals. EdgeSuite, a comprehensive suite of services built upon Akamai's global, fault-tolerant network architecture, will enable Theodore Myles Publishing's Afrocentric News Network to reap performance, scalability, and reliability benefits for all forms of content delivery across its entire family of Web sites.Targeting the needs and interests of the urban community, Theodore Myles Publishing's Afrocentric News Network (www.afrocentricnews.com) is a group of media-rich Web sites, including afrocentricnews.com, dickgregory.com, and urbanradio2000.com, that reaches an audience of millions, offering news, events, health, entertainment, education, and political information. With EdgeSuite, Theodore Myles Publishing's Afrocentric News Network of portals can efficiently create and deliver dynamic and relevant content from Akamai's edge-distributed network with enhanced availability and performance and provide end users with a high-quality, customizable Web experience.
Akamai's EdgeSuite service represents the next generation of Internet content delivery -- completely redefining the way businesses create and deliver their Web sites. EdgeSuite enables the generation and delivery of dynamic content by constructing Web pages from component pieces that can be targeted and delivered from locations optimized for each end user. Leveraging Akamai's global, fault-tolerant network, EdgeSuite is the first suite of services that 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 and HTML.
"Akamai is attacking a mission-critical problem for us. With aggressive plans to expand the Afrocentric News Network, we view EdgeSuite as essential to providing massive scalability to support future growth, both accelerating our time to market and minimizing costs associated with infrastructure build out," said Ted Terry, President and CEO, Theodore Myles Publishing. "EdgeSuite will enable us to keep pace with the technological challenges we'll face well into the future."
In addition to enhancing the day-to-day reliability of Theodore Myles Publishing Web sites, Akamai's services will be used by Theodore Myles Publishing to deliver major events planned by the Afrocentric News Network, providing viewers with a higher quality, more reliable experience. On March 24, Akamai services will deliver a State of the Union Webcast address from Legendary Civil Rights Activist and Humanitarian Dick Gregory. Mr. Gregory's speech, which will focus on the current situation facing our country, can be viewed by accessing the www.dickgregory.com portal.
Terry continued, "Akamai's proven expertise in delivering rich media with superior quality and reliability was instrumental to our decision to deploy EdgeSuite across our entire network of Web portals. An integrated suite of solutions, EdgeSuite enables us to create, publish and promote content on the Internet with maximum reliability and performance, enabling us to reach our community of users with complete confidence."
"Akamai is thrilled to support the full content delivery needs of the Afrocentric News Network," said Mike Campbell, Vice President, Sales, Akamai. "Theodore Myles Publishing's rapid online growth plans combined with its need for dynamic, customizable content delivery, superior site performance, and immediate ROI make it an ideal customer to benefit from EdgeSuite. We're looking forward to helping Theodore Myles Publishing meet the needs of the urban community."
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.
