Akamai Expands Presence in Texas

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Caryn Converse Akamai Technologies 617-250-4661 converse@akamai.com

Rapid adoption of Akamai's content delivery services spurs need for additional sales and support efforts throughout Texas

Austin, Texas - May 21, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP), today announced its expansion in Texas to meet increased demand for its content delivery services within the Texas business community. Akamai's industry-leading services are used by Texas' foremost enterprises and e-businesses in the retail, entertainment, financial, and global services sectors, providing them enhanced Web performance, improved end-user experience and significant savings on infrastructure costs.

"We're gaining major traction in Texas and are excited to announce the rapid acceptance of our Internet content delivery services by many of the top businesses in this dynamic region," said Jeff Hoffman, southwestern regional sales manager, Akamai. "Our success in Texas has resulted in the need for larger office space in Austin and new office space in Dallas. We're looking forward to broadening our presence to meet demand for our services."

Akamai's end-to-end solutions for enhancing Web performance enable enterprise companies and e-businesses to leverage infrastructure investments while reaping 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. Akamai has improved Web performance for more than 35 Texas businesses and has partnered with some of the state's biggest names in technology, including ArticuLearn, Ashford.com, Attenza, Belo Interactive, Cingular Wireless, Concero, L.P, Coollink Broadcast Network (CLBN), EDS, Ericsson, Inc., Hughes & Luce L.L.P, Hybrid, Inc., JCPenney, Jobs.com, Landmark Graphics Corporation, Netcertification, Inc., Video Access, Inc., and Vignette.

"With Akamai's content delivery services and distributed, global infrastructure, our clients can enhance the performance and reliability of their Web sites, improving the online experience for their end users," said Dennis Law, global service line vice president for Web Hosting at EDS. "The addition of Akamai's scaleable content delivery services to our portfolio allows EDS Managed Web Hosting Services to offer its clients robust next-generation solutions for optimal Web performance." EDS offers Akamai's Internet content delivery services to its Web hosting clients

About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider serving thousands of customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 9,700 servers in 56 countries directly connected within over 650 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.