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Premier Latin American Portal Chooses Akamai EdgeSuite Service
Serving a broad Spanish-speaking audience in Mexico and the United States, EsMas.com aims to blend its unique, high-quality content with the latest advancements in Internet technology to provide a comprehensive rich-media portal. EsMas.com deployed the Akamai EdgeSuite service to increase site performance while reducing the constraints on its centralized Web infrastructure by off-loading the assembly and delivery of more than 50% of its mission-critical content to Akamai's globally distributed network of servers, optimally located near end users. As a result, EsMas.com is able to avoid the costly build-out of its existing infrastructure, and yet leverage the Akamai network to scale on demand as its audience grows.
EsMas.com also selected the Akamai EdgeSuite service to ensure capacity for unforeseen traffic increases. Following the events of September 11, EsMas.com experienced a seven-fold increase in traffic to its site, as users relied on the Internet for breaking news and information. The Akamai EdgeSuite service enabled EsMas.com to support this heightened level of traffic with unwavering reliability and performance, including the delivery of HTML, rich media and video streams.
"As a leading rich-media portal in Mexico with a rapidly-growing presence in the U.S., EsMas.com is continually focused on building our online brand by combining a wide range of unique content with cutting-edge technology for top performance," said Fernando Thompson, chief technology officer, EsMas.com. "Akamai is an important part of our strategy to cost-effectively deliver the best possible service across our content network by ensuring high performance regardless of increasing demand."
"Akamai is committed to assisting Web-enabled businesses like EsMas.com scale their Web operations via our global, in-place infrastructure," said Michael Ruffolo, Executive Vice President, Global Sales, Services and Marketing, Akamai. "We're pleased to extend the benefits of top-quality Internet performance to the EsMas.com audience, while simplifying the portal's infrastructure requirements."
The Akamai EdgeSuite service is an integrated set of functionalities designed to reduce Internet infrastructure costs and complexities by off-loading all the elements of an enterprise's Web presence for generation and delivery from Akamai's global network. The Akamai EdgeSuite service dynamically assembles content at the Internet's edge by constructing Web pages from component pieces that can be targeted and delivered from locations optimized for each end user. Given today's challenged IT budgets, the EdgeSuite service allows businesses to outsource critical Web infrastructure to Akamai, realizing significant cost savings and measurably improving performance and reliability at the same time.
About EsMas.com
EsMas.com is a subsidiary of Televisa, the largest mass media company serving the Hispanic community worldwide. Televisa produces a broad spectrum of news and entertainment outlets including television programs, magazines, radio programs, sporting event broadcasts, films, and Internet services. The synergy between Televisa and EsMas.com with users brings a fresh relationship with TV-stars, sports celebrities, and leaders of opinion in the Latin American community. Currently all the content is in Spanish, however, EsMas.com has an online growth strategy in place to increase revenues. As part of this strategy, EsMas.com recently acquired Submarino.com.mx, the leading e-commerce Web site in Mexico. EsMas.com is also a provider of global domain name registration and Internet services such as newsletters (online and also via PDAs and pagers), with presence in We-TV by means of the Cable company of Televisa.
About Akamai
Akamai is a leading provider of secure, 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 hundreds of companies worldwide. For information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, 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, any material, unexpected increases in Akamai's use of funds, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, lack of market acceptance of new services, including EdgeSuite, a failure by us to successfully enter into any license, technology development or other technology partnership agreement within the time periods expected by us or at all, 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.
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EsMas.com deploys Akamai EdgeSuiteSM service to support online growth with top performance and minimized infrastructure
Cambridge, MA - December 6, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software, today announced that EsMas.com, a subsidiary of Televisa and leading provider of Internet content including news, entertainment, information and interactive cross-promotions for the Latin American community, has deployed the Akamai EdgeSuite service to simplify its infrastructure requirements while increasing the performance, scalability, and reliability of its international Web presence.Serving a broad Spanish-speaking audience in Mexico and the United States, EsMas.com aims to blend its unique, high-quality content with the latest advancements in Internet technology to provide a comprehensive rich-media portal. EsMas.com deployed the Akamai EdgeSuite service to increase site performance while reducing the constraints on its centralized Web infrastructure by off-loading the assembly and delivery of more than 50% of its mission-critical content to Akamai's globally distributed network of servers, optimally located near end users. As a result, EsMas.com is able to avoid the costly build-out of its existing infrastructure, and yet leverage the Akamai network to scale on demand as its audience grows.
EsMas.com also selected the Akamai EdgeSuite service to ensure capacity for unforeseen traffic increases. Following the events of September 11, EsMas.com experienced a seven-fold increase in traffic to its site, as users relied on the Internet for breaking news and information. The Akamai EdgeSuite service enabled EsMas.com to support this heightened level of traffic with unwavering reliability and performance, including the delivery of HTML, rich media and video streams.
"As a leading rich-media portal in Mexico with a rapidly-growing presence in the U.S., EsMas.com is continually focused on building our online brand by combining a wide range of unique content with cutting-edge technology for top performance," said Fernando Thompson, chief technology officer, EsMas.com. "Akamai is an important part of our strategy to cost-effectively deliver the best possible service across our content network by ensuring high performance regardless of increasing demand."
"Akamai is committed to assisting Web-enabled businesses like EsMas.com scale their Web operations via our global, in-place infrastructure," said Michael Ruffolo, Executive Vice President, Global Sales, Services and Marketing, Akamai. "We're pleased to extend the benefits of top-quality Internet performance to the EsMas.com audience, while simplifying the portal's infrastructure requirements."
The Akamai EdgeSuite service is an integrated set of functionalities designed to reduce Internet infrastructure costs and complexities by off-loading all the elements of an enterprise's Web presence for generation and delivery from Akamai's global network. The Akamai EdgeSuite service dynamically assembles content at the Internet's edge by constructing Web pages from component pieces that can be targeted and delivered from locations optimized for each end user. Given today's challenged IT budgets, the EdgeSuite service allows businesses to outsource critical Web infrastructure to Akamai, realizing significant cost savings and measurably improving performance and reliability at the same time.
About EsMas.com
EsMas.com is a subsidiary of Televisa, the largest mass media company serving the Hispanic community worldwide. Televisa produces a broad spectrum of news and entertainment outlets including television programs, magazines, radio programs, sporting event broadcasts, films, and Internet services. The synergy between Televisa and EsMas.com with users brings a fresh relationship with TV-stars, sports celebrities, and leaders of opinion in the Latin American community. Currently all the content is in Spanish, however, EsMas.com has an online growth strategy in place to increase revenues. As part of this strategy, EsMas.com recently acquired Submarino.com.mx, the leading e-commerce Web site in Mexico. EsMas.com is also a provider of global domain name registration and Internet services such as newsletters (online and also via PDAs and pagers), with presence in We-TV by means of the Cable company of Televisa.
About Akamai
Akamai is a leading provider of secure, 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 hundreds of companies worldwide. For information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, visit www.akamai.com.
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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, any material, unexpected increases in Akamai's use of funds, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, lack of market acceptance of new services, including EdgeSuite, a failure by us to successfully enter into any license, technology development or other technology partnership agreement within the time periods expected by us or at all, 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.
