Akamai Hosts National Seminar Series With Microsoft to Demonstrate Advantages of Streaming Media

Business Wire, May 16, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2000

Seminar series, focused on enterprise applications, is designed to

educate businesses on the fundamentals of streaming media and how to

use the technology for business advantage

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high-performance services for the delivery of interactive Web content, streaming media, and Internet applications, today announced a nationwide seminar series co-sponsored by Microsoft Corp. on streaming media to educate companies on how digital media technology is changing the face of business. The initial seminar in the series will launch today in Washington, D.C.

The series of free half-day seminars will provide attendees with the fundamentals of streaming media, including topics such as how the technology works, how it is being used, how to build a complete streaming media solution, and how to maximize return on investment. Customers who have successfully deployed streaming audio and video in the business, entertainment and education industries will also be highlighted as case studies to illustrate how companies are benefiting from this new technology. Attendees will include technology executives, marketing and sales managers, ad agencies, Web developers, TV and radio executives, production agencies, IT departments, corporate communications, education and training organizations and anyone who needs to explore and deploy streaming audio or video within their Intranet or Web site.

The seminar series brings together Akamai, the leading provider of streaming media delivery services, and Microsoft's Digital Media Division, the developer of Windows Media Technologies. Both companies deliver industry-leading streaming media technology for applications ranging from music, radio, news and events to online training and corporate communications.

"As the Internet increasingly becomes a central part of business and communications, we recognize the enormous role that streaming media will play in the future of the enterprise and entertainment industries," said Dan Fraisl, vice president and general manager of streaming, Akamai. "With substantial experience in streaming media, Microsoft and Akamai are well positioned to bring to businesses authoritative information on the technology and the powerful advantages it provides."

"Customers have told us that digital media technologies and applications are developing so rapidly, that they need more opportunities to learn about how best to leverage it for business advantage," said Dave Fester, general manager of marketing, Digital Media Division, Microsoft Corp. "This series is a great opportunity for customers to learn practical lessons about the uses and benefits of digital media and see the impact it is already making for businesses today."

The Streaming Media Advantage roadshow will be held in the following cities:

May 16 - Washington, D.C.

June 19 - New York City

July 12 - Los Angeles

August 10 - Denver

August 16 - Dallas

September 12 - San Francisco

October 18 - Seattle

November 15 - Atlanta

Additional information on the Streaming Media Advantage roadshow, including registration information, is available at www.streamingadvantage.com.

About Akamai

Akamai is the foremost provider of distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery services and serves over 1,000 customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 3,000 servers in over 45 countries directly connected to more than 160 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 to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.