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CBC.ca teams with Akamai for exclusive live video webcast of Rolling Stones-SARS benefit concert
CBC.ca has secured exclusive worldwide rights to broadcast The Rolling Stones-SARS benefit concert over the Web at www.cbc.ca/torontorocks, and has selected Akamai as the exclusive streaming delivery provider for the day-long concert. Besides headliners The Rolling Stones, performers include AC/DC, Rush, The Guess Who, Kathleen Edwards, The Isley Brothers, Blue Rodeo, The Tea Party, Justin Timberlake and The Have Love Will Travel Revue, featuring James Belushi and concert host Dan Aykroyd.
Concert promoters expect to attract well over 400,000 attendees to Downsview Park in Toronto, a former airbase, making it one of the largest one-day ticketed events in North American history. Money raised during the event will be used to benefit SARS-related charities.
"We are delighted to bring this remarkable event to CBC.ca visitors both at home and around the world," said Claude Galipeau, executive director of CBC New Media. "By webcasting this major event on CBC.ca, we are ensuring that almost every Canadian, plus a multitude of international visitors can share in the excitement of this incredible concert experience. We trust Akamai's proven webcasting technology to ensure a high-quality and globally scalable streaming presentation for our audience." In addition to utilizing Akamai's services for streaming, CBC.ca relies on Akamai's EdgeSuiteTM service for whole-site delivery of its news sites.
CBC.ca's online coverage spans the entire concert event and will include at least one song from each performance, as well as behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with performers and event VIPs, audience reaction and special Web-based features exclusive to CBC.ca. The live Webcast will be available in today's leading streaming formats, in both high- and low-bandwidth versions, at cbc.ca/torontorocks.
Utilizing Akamai's global network of over 14,000 servers, CBC.ca will have the scalability on demand to support unrivaled numbers of concurrent streams to a worldwide audience, as well as the control to manage usage in a cost-effective manner. Akamai's integrated reporting tools will provide CBC.ca with real-time business intelligence to effectively measure the success of this online programming.
"We are excited to be selected as the exclusive streaming partner to CBC for this important event aimed at assisting SARS-related charities," said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice president, Global Sales, Services and Marketing, Akamai. "Akamai's technology will enable online visitors from around the world to have a virtual seat at a one-of-a-kind concert."
CBC Television and CBC Radio One will air a live two-hour special, Toronto Rocks, from 9 to 11 p.m. ET on July 30th. CBC Newsworld and RDI will report live from Downsview Park throughout the day.
About CBC.ca
CBC.ca is Canada's most comprehensive online source for news, information and entertainment with a distinct Canadian perspective. Brought to you by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC.ca offers up-to-the-minute reporting of breaking news, expert analysis, and in-depth background information on current issues affecting Canadians, at home and abroad. CBC.ca also provides rich interactive features, on-demand streaming media, CBC programming information, sports news and statistics, wireless news, discussion forums, CBC digital archives, kids content and much more, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Visitors to CBC.ca will find one of the largest online sites dedicated to the Canadian viewpoint, with over 330,000 pages of news, information and entertainment. For more information, visit www.cbc.ca.
About Akamai
Akamai® provides services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure. Having deployed the world's largest, globally-distributed computing platform, Akamai ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability, security, and performance of networked information and application delivery. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai's industry-leading services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of successful enterprises, government entities, and Web businesses around the globe. For more information, 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 effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by hackers or others, failure to have available sufficient transmission capacity, 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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CBC.ca uses Akamai streaming technology to provide visitors with live online coverage of day-long SARS benefit concert headlined by The Rolling Stones
TORONTO, CANADA and CAMBRIDGE, MA, July 29, 2003 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), a provider of services that enable the world's leading enterprises to extend and control their e-business infrastructure, and CBC.ca, the Web site of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's national public broadcaster, today announced the company's collaboration to provide live streaming delivery of Toronto's SARS benefit concert taking place tomorrow, July 30th from noon to midnight ET.CBC.ca has secured exclusive worldwide rights to broadcast The Rolling Stones-SARS benefit concert over the Web at www.cbc.ca/torontorocks, and has selected Akamai as the exclusive streaming delivery provider for the day-long concert. Besides headliners The Rolling Stones, performers include AC/DC, Rush, The Guess Who, Kathleen Edwards, The Isley Brothers, Blue Rodeo, The Tea Party, Justin Timberlake and The Have Love Will Travel Revue, featuring James Belushi and concert host Dan Aykroyd.
Concert promoters expect to attract well over 400,000 attendees to Downsview Park in Toronto, a former airbase, making it one of the largest one-day ticketed events in North American history. Money raised during the event will be used to benefit SARS-related charities.
"We are delighted to bring this remarkable event to CBC.ca visitors both at home and around the world," said Claude Galipeau, executive director of CBC New Media. "By webcasting this major event on CBC.ca, we are ensuring that almost every Canadian, plus a multitude of international visitors can share in the excitement of this incredible concert experience. We trust Akamai's proven webcasting technology to ensure a high-quality and globally scalable streaming presentation for our audience." In addition to utilizing Akamai's services for streaming, CBC.ca relies on Akamai's EdgeSuiteTM service for whole-site delivery of its news sites.
CBC.ca's online coverage spans the entire concert event and will include at least one song from each performance, as well as behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with performers and event VIPs, audience reaction and special Web-based features exclusive to CBC.ca. The live Webcast will be available in today's leading streaming formats, in both high- and low-bandwidth versions, at cbc.ca/torontorocks.
Utilizing Akamai's global network of over 14,000 servers, CBC.ca will have the scalability on demand to support unrivaled numbers of concurrent streams to a worldwide audience, as well as the control to manage usage in a cost-effective manner. Akamai's integrated reporting tools will provide CBC.ca with real-time business intelligence to effectively measure the success of this online programming.
"We are excited to be selected as the exclusive streaming partner to CBC for this important event aimed at assisting SARS-related charities," said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice president, Global Sales, Services and Marketing, Akamai. "Akamai's technology will enable online visitors from around the world to have a virtual seat at a one-of-a-kind concert."
CBC Television and CBC Radio One will air a live two-hour special, Toronto Rocks, from 9 to 11 p.m. ET on July 30th. CBC Newsworld and RDI will report live from Downsview Park throughout the day.
About CBC.ca
CBC.ca is Canada's most comprehensive online source for news, information and entertainment with a distinct Canadian perspective. Brought to you by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC.ca offers up-to-the-minute reporting of breaking news, expert analysis, and in-depth background information on current issues affecting Canadians, at home and abroad. CBC.ca also provides rich interactive features, on-demand streaming media, CBC programming information, sports news and statistics, wireless news, discussion forums, CBC digital archives, kids content and much more, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Visitors to CBC.ca will find one of the largest online sites dedicated to the Canadian viewpoint, with over 330,000 pages of news, information and entertainment. For more information, visit www.cbc.ca.
About Akamai
Akamai® provides services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure. Having deployed the world's largest, globally-distributed computing platform, Akamai ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability, security, and performance of networked information and application delivery. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai's industry-leading services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of successful enterprises, government entities, and Web businesses around the globe. For more information, 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, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by hackers or others, failure to have available sufficient transmission capacity, 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.
