Akamai Supports EA.com's Highly Interactive Internet Suspense Thriller, Majestic

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Provides on-demand streaming services for EA.com's biggest innovation in online gaming

CAMBRIDGE, MA, August 17, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Inc., (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leading provider of distributed application and content delivery services, today announced that Akamai is powering the latest gaming initiative from EA.com, Majestic. Billed as the first Internet-based suspense thriller, Majestic launched in North America on July 30 on the EA.com interactive entertainment site at www.majesticthegame.com. Akamai is providing the on-demand streaming delivery services for the Majestic game, delivering audio and video transmissions of information integral to the Majestic story, while helping to enhance the game's interactive experience for players.

Majestic places players in the center of an unfolding mystery adventure, and delivers a highly personalized experience through common everyday devices that are connected to the Internet through which to tell its story. A critical part of the Majestic experience comes when players explore for clues and information on the Internet using the Majestic search engine. As users experience the game, online newscasts, web-cam recordings and audio transmissions provide information relevant to the game while interactive streaming audio and video clips, delivered by Akamai, provide clues to help solve the mystery. With Akamai's streaming service, Majestic users receive reliable, high-quality broadband and narrowband experiences regardless of spikes in traffic via Akamai's globally distributed network of more than 11,600 servers located at the edge of the Internet.

"A key principle during the development of Majestic was the use of best-of-breed technology partnerships to help deliver the revolutionary platform that Majestic is built upon," said Neil Young, vice president & executive in charge of production, Electronic Arts. "Akamai, with its proven expertise in handling streaming events on the Internet along with its ability to scale to support the largest of broadband audiences, easily met our needs for a streaming delivery provider."

"With the launch of Majestic, EA.com combines an inventive use of cutting-edge technologies with an innovative form of entertainment to deliver a completely new and different way of storytelling," said Mike Campbell, vice president of sales, Akamai. "We're excited to play an important role in the Majestic launch by enhancing the online experience for players and improving the quality and reliability of the game's highly interactive features."

About EA.com
EA.com, headquartered in Redwood City, California, is a new business division of Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS), the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Under an agreement with America Online, Inc. (AOL), the world's leading interactive services company, EA.com will provide exclusive games programming for the AOL Games channel, AOL.COM, Netscape.com, ICQ.com, CompuServe, in addition to the EA.com home site. The relationship between EA.com and AOL has created a leading online gaming community and provides several services, including the ability to download and play games, find online opponents, obtain game related information and join chat rooms to discuss games.

About Akamai
Akamai is the leading provider of distributed application and content delivery services. These services enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 11,600 servers within over 820 networks in 62 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services to companies worldwide. For information on Delivering a Better Internet^SM, visit www.akamai.com.

Electronic Arts and Majestic are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. EA.COM is a service mark of EA.com Inc. AOL is a registered trademark of America Online, Inc. in the United States and elsewhere.

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.