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Akamai EdgeSuiteSM provides immediate performance and scalability benefits for CDC.gov; earns CDC high ranks on Keynote's Government 40 Performance Index
Cambridge, MA - January 22, 2002 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software, today announced that The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have implemented EdgeSuite to reduce IT complexity, expand its Internet infrastructure capacity and global reach, and improve overall site performance while ensuring effective delivery of all types of content on www.cdc.gov.CDC plays a critical role in monitoring health, detecting and investigating health problems, and controlling the spread of diseases. As such, the cdc.gov site has become a crucial informant to the world at large, providing credible, up-to-date information to protect the public from the most widespread and deadly health threats. For instance, when the most recent concerns of anthrax were first made public in October 2001, CDC.gov experienced record traffic - over nine million unique visitors from more than 200 countries - as the public rushed to the site for health information.
To keep pace with the growing needs of its worldwide audiences and to uphold its highly regarded status, CDC's IT staff implemented Akamai EdgeSuite to ensure uninterrupted global Web operations, despite unpredictable flash crowds, and to provide assurance of uptime even in the event of potential equipment failures or denial of service attacks.
Since deploying EdgeSuite in December, CDC has witnessed measurable increases in its Web site's performance. This performance increase has enabled CDC.gov to consistently claim one of the top 5 positions on Keynote's weekly Government 40 Internet Performance Index - a first in CDC.gov's history. Also of benefit to CDC is EdgeSuite's ability to minimize capital expenditures associated with infrastructure capacity planning. By off-loading the assembly and delivery of its Web site to Akamai's globally distributed platform, CDC is able to avoid the costly build-out of its existing infrastructure, and yet leverage the Akamai platform to scale on demand as its audience grows.
"We're excited to begin a relationship with CDC, one of the most frequently visited Web sites in all tiers of government, and to assist its efforts in providing efficient, reliable delivery of health information to its global audiences," said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice president, global sales, services, and marketing, Akamai. "We look forward to helping CDC maintain its trusted reputation via EdgeSuite's ability to provide 100 percent availability of its Web operations while decreasing its e-business network deployment and operating costs."
About CDC
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is responsible for promoting health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. CDC is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
About Keynote Systems, Inc.
Keynote Systems (Nasdaq: KEYN), The Internet Performance Authority®, is the worldwide leader in Internet performance services that improve the quality of e-business. Keynote's services enable corporate enterprises to benchmark, test and manage their e-business applications both inside and outside the firewall. By improving the quality of their e-business, companies reduce costs, gain operational efficiency, protect and grow revenue and stay ahead of the competition. The company can be reached at www.keynote.com or by phone in the U.S. at 650-403-2400.
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, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, any inability of the company's services to meet the needs of governmental agencies, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, our ability to protect our intellectual property rights and inventions from third party challenges, and other factors that are discussed in the Akamai'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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