Akamai and Internap Alliance Yields Strong Joint Customer Momentum

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Caryn Brownell Akamai Technologies 617.444.4661 cbrownell@akamai.com	--or--	Tim Hanson Internap Network Services 206.262.3742 thanson@internap.com

Companies' bundled service offering proves valuable for customers with demanding Web site connectivity and data and application delivery requirements

Cambridge, MA and Seattle, WA - October 4, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leading provider of outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software, and Internap Network Services Corporation (Nasdaq: INAP), the leading provider of intelligent routing services over the Internet, today announced substantial customer adoption of the companies' joint Internet optimization solutions. Together, the team has signed a total of 40 customers through the alliance, including Monster.com, The Seattle Times, and Travelocity.com, among other leading companies that leverage the Internet for the delivery of business-critical applications and electronic commerce.

Established in December 2000, the Akamai and Internap alliance combines Internap's centrally managed system of routing data over the major Internet backbones and Akamai's globally distributed network and integrated suite of services for content and application delivery, content customization, and business intelligence. The relationship has since yielded a series of mutual customers in many sectors including finance, healthcare, media and entertainment, retail, and technology, as businesses seek superior Internet connectivity and complete solutions to their mission-critical Web infrastructure needs.

"A leading source of news and information to the Pacific Northwest region, our business relies heavily on the reliability of its Internet connectivity and the rapid, reliable manner in which our content is delivered to visitors," said Donna Zielinski, technology and operations manager, new media, The Seattle Times. "Using the Akamai-Internap solution fulfills our need for a more efficient and scalable Internet infrastructure, and helps us to deliver our breaking news and information in the most reliable, cost-effective manner."

Through the strategic alliance, Akamai is an important Internap customer and Internap resells Akamai's comprehensive suite of services, which are designed to significantly reduce costs and complexities of deploying and operating customers' e-business network and applications. The combination of the companies' services benefits shared customers by providing greater manageability and control over their Internet data.

"The Akamai-Internap alliance has proven to be of significant value to customers that require optimal performance for their mission-critical Web initiatives," said Alan Norman, vice president of corporate development for Internap Network Services. "The combination of Internap's intelligent core and Akamai's outsourced e-business infrastructure offerings is a winning solution for many of our customers."

"Our relationship continues to prosper through the joint efforts in serving customers for which improved performance, scalability, and reliability of Web operations remain vital," said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice president, Akamai. "The broad range of clients that Internap and Akamai have acquired reinforces the synergies between our robust offering, and confirms that complete e-business management solutions have become necessary to the on-going success of enterprise businesses."

Akamai provides an integrated set of functionalities designed to reduce Internet infrastructure costs and complexities by extending the performance, scalability, and reliability benefits of content delivery across an entire Web site. As businesses seek to maximize their customer's online experience while cost-effectively managing vital Web infrastructure at the Internet's edge, Akamai's services provide companies with unmatched scalability by reducing the need for infrastructure capacity planning and ease of integration for fast deployment and greatly reduced staffing costs.

Internap is a provider of intelligent routing services over the Internet through its Overlay Network that continuously monitors the traffic situation over all the major Internet backbones and routes mission-critical data in a faster, more reliable and more managed fashion than conventional Internet technology.

About Internap
Founded in 1996 in Seattle, Internap provides Internet connectivity that is faster and more reliable than conventional Internet service. Internap's patented route management technology provides direct data transmission across the major Internet backbones through a single connection from a customer's network to one of Internap's Service Points. Internap's customers bypass congestion points on the Internet, avoiding packet loss, latency and other difficulties that can plague conventional Internet connectivity. Internap services are currently available in numerous key markets throughout the United States including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Jose and Seattle. Major companies and networks served by Internap include The Nasdaq Stock Market, Datek Online, Colgate Palmolive, Earthlink, Travelocity and many others. Internap and P-NAP are registered trademarks of Internap. All other trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. For more information, visit www.Internap.com.

About Akamai
Akamai is the leading provider of outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software 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.

Internap "Safe Harbor" Statement
This release may contain projections or other forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. Readers are referred to the documents filed by Internap with the SEC, including without limitation its most recent Reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including, among other things, Internap's history of operating losses and expected future losses, Internap's limited operating history, fluctuations in Internap's quarterly operating results, Internet infrastructure and regulatory changes, volatility of stock price, deployment of new Service Points, integration of acquired businesses and rapid technological and market change. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to Internap on the date hereof, and Internap assumes no obligation to update such statements.

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, any failure of the joint optimization solutions described above to function properly, 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.