Akamai Achieves Network Deployment Milestone

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Company expands global platform into 1,000th network, improving performance, scalability, and global reach for customers

Cambridge, MA - October 19, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software, today announced a milestone with the expanded deployment of its globally distributed 'edge' servers to over 1,000 networks, including large backbone providers, ISPs, broadband-enabled providers, enterprise networks, university and state networks, and other telecommunications facilities.

In just over two and one half years, Akamai has scaled its network from a few hundred servers in a handful of networks, to creating the world's largest distributed computing platform that interconnects over 1,000 network partners. Akamai's industrial-scale platform has been built by installing low cap-ex, off-the-shelf servers, equipped with Akamai-developed software, within networks on all continents except Antarctica. The expansion of Akamai's network has been achieved not only at a record pace, but also enables Akamai to provide a significant ROI to both network partners and customers.

"Akamai has moved from creating a content delivery network overlay to becoming extensively integrated into the Internet, with an ubiquitous presence that today serves traffic from all corners of the globe," said Jonathan Stefansky, vice president of network infrastructure and architecture, Akamai. "With an extremely low capital-intensive model, we've been able to expand our network quickly and cost-effectively, resulting in improved performance and scalability for customers. We are now in a position to focus all future installations in areas of strategic benefit to our customers, while maintaining a revenue-generating technology platform."

As the world's largest distributed computing platform able to assemble, present, and deliver all forms of content and applications from the edges of the Internet, close to end users, notable distinctions include:

• Universal deployment of over 13,000 servers in 63 countries
• Extensive global coverage that also spans some of the world's most remote locations including Estonia, Faeroe Islands, Honduras, Kenya, Malta, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
• Deployment within all leading Tier One networks throughout the world
• Broadest reach in broadband-enabled networks, including academic and research networks, RBOCs, and multicable system operators
• With its massive network deployment, Akamai has unparalleled insight from the Internet's core to the edge, making it a leading authority on network optimization

Akamai's decentralized, distributed platform overcomes the inherent problems of the Internet's centralized architecture, which requires moving content from network to network. Akamai minimizes these peer-to-peer issues, eliminating any single points of failure, placing content and applications closest to users, for 100 percent reliability. Today's leading networks have responded positively to partnering with Akamai due in part to the incredible value proposition of installing Akamai servers - enhanced delivery of data and applications and improved bandwidth efficiency - which in turn, provides increased value to their customers.

"As an Akamai network partner, Electric Lightwave is able to greatly improve content response times to its customers, providing an invaluable, transparent benefit," said Jed Brintzenhoff, product manager, IP services, Electric Lightwave. "The deployment of Akamai servers on our OC-48 backbone enables ELI to handle traffic surges and scale quickly and efficiently to meet the content demands of our customers."

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 13,000 servers within over 1,000 networks in 63 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services to companies worldwide. For information on Delivering a Better Internet^SM visit www.akamai.com.

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, general economic conditions, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, lack of market acceptance of new services, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.