The Columbia House Company Selects Akamai EdgeSuite Service to Support Growing Online Business

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Akamai EdgeSuite^SM service to enhance the Web experience for Columbia House's 16 million members through high-performance content delivery

CAMBRIDGE, MA, September, 5, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Inc., (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leading provider of distributed application and content delivery services, today announced The Columbia House Company, the world's largest direct marketer of music, DVD and video home entertainment products, has selected the Akamai EdgeSuite service to provide increased performance and scalability for Columbiahouse.com's popular music, DVD and video entertainment properties.

With membership in its online music, video and DVD clubs on the rise, Columbia House needed a solution that could guarantee uptime and provide unparalleled user experiences for its customers, while simplifying the intricacies of Columbia House's Web infrastructure.

"Timely and accurate response to our customers is integral to the success of Columbia House," said Tom Beauchamp, senior vice president and CIO, Columbia House. "EdgeSuite's many performance-enhancing benefits will be instrumental to maintaining our strong record of excellence in customer service and to protecting our premier e-commerce brand. In addition, EdgeSuite will be key to delivering our entertainment services and promotional campaigns in the most reliable, cost-efficient manner possible."

"Akamai is thrilled to announce its new relationship as a valuable service provider to Columbia House, which places the utmost level of importance on its online brand," said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice president, Akamai. "The EdgeSuite service will enable Columbia House to unleash the potential of online marketing efforts with greater performance and reliability through a cost-effective, future-proof solution. We look forward to working together with Columbia House on its innovative Web efforts."

The Akamai EdgeSuite service enables the assembly, presentation and delivery of an organization's data and applications via Akamai's global network of over 11,600 servers deployed close to end users at the Internet's "edge." EdgeSuite reduces the costs and complexities associated with a business's centralized Web serving infrastructure by distributing, managing, storing, processing, and delivering data and applications across IP networks.

About Columbia House
The Columbia House Company is the world's largest direct marketer of music, videos and DVD home entertainment product. With more than 16 million offline and online club members in the United States, Canada and Mexico, the company provides direct-to-consumer marketing of more than 12,000 music titles and 5,000 video and DVD titles through its entertainment clubs. The company's Website, www.columbiahouse.com, is one of the premier e-commerce brands and consistently ranks among the Web's top 25 shopping destinations. Since its inception in 1955, The Columbia House Company has a proven record of excellence in database marketing, market segmentation, credit screening and niche market merchandising. Headquartered in New York City, The Columbia House Company is a general partnership owned equally by Sony Corporation and AOL/Time Warner, Inc.

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.

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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.