Akamai not Affected by Latest Cable & Wireless Patent Suit

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Jeff Young Media Relations Akamai Technologies 617-250-3913 jyoung@akamai.com	--or--	J.C. Raby Investor Relations Akamai Technologies 617-444-2555 jraby@akamai.com

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - July 16, 2002 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) today confirmed that the company is the target of a new patent infringement suit filed by Cable & Wireless, PLC in federal court in Boston, but Akamai maintains the matter is irrelevant to the company's operations.

"We are aware of the details of a new patent issued to Cable & Wireless, and it is just another version of the same so-called 'fingerprinting' technology that a jury previously determined Akamai does not infringe," said Paul Sagan, president of Akamai. "We are confident that Akamai does not infringe the new patent. Given the timing of this new suit, it appears that Cable & Wireless decided to act simply to divert attention from the permanent injunction that is expected to be issued against them this summer, by the federal district court, as a result of a jury finding that Cable & Wireless' Footprint content delivery service infringes Akamai patent rights."

Last December, a jury in federal district court found that the Footprint content delivery service, now operated under the Exodus brand as part of Cable and Wireless, and previously operated by Digital Island, infringes Akamai patent rights. The same jury found that the Akamai FreeFlowSM content delivery service does not infringe patent rights, now held by Cable and Wireless, that cover only limited ways in which content may be stored and served over a computer network such as the Internet.

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 12,600 servers within over 1,000 networks in 66 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services and industry-renowned customer care to hundreds of enterprises worldwide, including dozens of Fortune 500 businesses. For information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, 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, our ability to protect our intellectual property rights and inventions from third party challenges, a successful infringement claim against us that impacts our business, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.

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