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Online Weather Network Turns to Akamai for Delivery of Hurricane News and Information
The biggest storm to hit the region since Hurricane Floyd in 1999, Hurricane Isabel made landfall today. When the storm began approaching the U.S., millions of users turned to AWS' properties for news and weather information on Isabel's projected track, including WeatherBug (www.weatherbug.com), an online weather service that provides live neighborhood conditions, and WeatherNet, which delivers real-time weather information to U.S. households, schools and colleges.
To better target the delivery of time-sensitive weather information, AWS selected Akamai's intelligent platform to dynamically assemble web content. Working with Akamai's professional services team, AWS was able to quickly deploy the EdgeSuite service and begin serving its content from the Akamai Platform. Not only is AWS delivering more targeted content to its end users, it is also benefiting from EdgeSuite's ability to absorb peaks in end-user traffic to AWS properties, and deliver content to users with improved response times, without any additional infrastructure costs to AWS.
"Hurricane Isabel has the potential to affect millions and, based on our traffic stats, the end-user interest in our online weather services has been phenomenal. This demand, while exciting, proved that we could no longer manage events of such magnitude single-handedly," said Christopher Sloop, vice president of engineering, AWS. "Akamai's intelligent services and distributed network, with its on-demand capacity and ability to provide high performance to every user, provides the optimum solution for AWS to efficiently extend its business to customers."
"AWS has attracted a fast-growing, loyal online audience with its network of weather sites, and we're pleased that EdgeSuite is playing a key role in supporting its delivery of up-to-the-second weather information with greater scale and cost efficiency," said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice president of global sales, services, and marketing, Akamai. "We're excited to work with AWS to demonstrate the performance and cost-saving benefits of delivering this important information to the general public."
The Akamai EdgeSuite service enables the generation and delivery of dynamic content by constructing Web pages from component pieces that can be targeted and delivered from locations optimized for each Web site visitor. In addition to utilizing the EdgeSuite service, AWS will take advantage of Akamai's content targeting service to customize content to individual end users based on their geographic location, connection speed, and time zone.
About AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc.
AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. (www.aws.com) owns and operates the largest network of weather stations in the world. This real-time network gathers comprehensive, up-to-the-second weather information from more than 6,000 communities and powers the company's various products and services, including: WeatherBug®, an online weather service that provides live neighborhood conditions to more than 23 million registered PC users; WeatherNet for Broadcast, which delivers real-time weather information to more than 80 million U.S. households through partnerships with 106 local television stations; WeatherNet for Education, which provides engaging weather information and educational tools to schools and colleges, including an innovative set of online lesson plans and software called WeatherNet Classroom; and AWS Data Services which uses AWS' unique weather network and software to provide high-value solutions for vertical industries such as energy, retail, and transportation.
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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AWS' weather properties, including WeatherBug, rely on Akamai's services to deliver live coverage of Hurricane Isabel's projected path and effects to general public
Cambridge, MA - September 18, 2003 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), a provider of services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure, today announced its EdgeSuiteSM dynamic content assembly service has been deployed by AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc., which owns and operates the largest network of weather stations in the world. Akamai's services are assisting AWS's efforts in delivering up-to-the-second weather information to thousands of communities as Hurricane Isabel reaches the mid-Atlantic coast.The biggest storm to hit the region since Hurricane Floyd in 1999, Hurricane Isabel made landfall today. When the storm began approaching the U.S., millions of users turned to AWS' properties for news and weather information on Isabel's projected track, including WeatherBug (www.weatherbug.com), an online weather service that provides live neighborhood conditions, and WeatherNet, which delivers real-time weather information to U.S. households, schools and colleges.
To better target the delivery of time-sensitive weather information, AWS selected Akamai's intelligent platform to dynamically assemble web content. Working with Akamai's professional services team, AWS was able to quickly deploy the EdgeSuite service and begin serving its content from the Akamai Platform. Not only is AWS delivering more targeted content to its end users, it is also benefiting from EdgeSuite's ability to absorb peaks in end-user traffic to AWS properties, and deliver content to users with improved response times, without any additional infrastructure costs to AWS.
"Hurricane Isabel has the potential to affect millions and, based on our traffic stats, the end-user interest in our online weather services has been phenomenal. This demand, while exciting, proved that we could no longer manage events of such magnitude single-handedly," said Christopher Sloop, vice president of engineering, AWS. "Akamai's intelligent services and distributed network, with its on-demand capacity and ability to provide high performance to every user, provides the optimum solution for AWS to efficiently extend its business to customers."
"AWS has attracted a fast-growing, loyal online audience with its network of weather sites, and we're pleased that EdgeSuite is playing a key role in supporting its delivery of up-to-the-second weather information with greater scale and cost efficiency," said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice president of global sales, services, and marketing, Akamai. "We're excited to work with AWS to demonstrate the performance and cost-saving benefits of delivering this important information to the general public."
The Akamai EdgeSuite service enables the generation and delivery of dynamic content by constructing Web pages from component pieces that can be targeted and delivered from locations optimized for each Web site visitor. In addition to utilizing the EdgeSuite service, AWS will take advantage of Akamai's content targeting service to customize content to individual end users based on their geographic location, connection speed, and time zone.
About AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc.
AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. (www.aws.com) owns and operates the largest network of weather stations in the world. This real-time network gathers comprehensive, up-to-the-second weather information from more than 6,000 communities and powers the company's various products and services, including: WeatherBug®, an online weather service that provides live neighborhood conditions to more than 23 million registered PC users; WeatherNet for Broadcast, which delivers real-time weather information to more than 80 million U.S. households through partnerships with 106 local television stations; WeatherNet for Education, which provides engaging weather information and educational tools to schools and colleges, including an innovative set of online lesson plans and software called WeatherNet Classroom; and AWS Data Services which uses AWS' unique weather network and software to provide high-value solutions for vertical industries such as energy, retail, and transportation.
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.
