Akamai Unveils EdgeAdvantage: A New Platform for Internet Application Delivery: EdgeAdvantage Enables eBusinesses Access to a Broad Array of New Services and Functionality

Business Wire, Dec 16, 1999

Industry Leaders Endorse New Platform

"Direct Hit is focused on providing our numerous portal partners with our highly relevant, popularity-based Internet search and shopping engine services," said Mike Cassidy, CEO of Direct Hit. "Akamai's intelligent content and application delivery services are expected to further improve the performance of Direct Hit's services. We're delighted to be part of this very exciting new advance in Internet content delivery."

"ICAP will provide LookSmart with a standardized delivery mechanism for content and applications and will allow us to bring new products and services exponentially faster to our end users," said Mike Reaves, vice president of engineering at LookSmart. "As developers of syndicated content, the proposed standard interface and EdgeAdvantage platform will provide our customers with an easier and more speedy integration of our content onto their Web sites."

"Akamai's new platform is an ideal fit for Vignette's emphasis on providing companies with a scalable, broad eBusiness application platform upon which to build their on-line businesses. Vignette's core platform services for providing dynamic personalized content will be enhanced by Akamai's platform delivery services," said Bill Daniel, senior vice president of products for Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN). "Both our respective companies are dedicated to building the strongest E-Relationships possible with our customers. We see Akamai's support of this new platform delivery service as a logical next step in fulfilling that vision."

About Akamai

Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo, California. Akamai provides global Internet content and applications delivery services for more than 100 customers, improving Web site speed and reliability and enabling richer, more engaging Web site content. Currently, Akamai has deployed 1700 servers in 30 countries across 100 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.

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 of third parties to develop services based on EdgeAdvantage, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.