WorldNet Resource Group Selects Akamai for Streaming Media Delivery

Business Wire, Sept 18, 2000

Business Editors

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2000

WorldNet Resource Group, Inc. (OTCBB:WNRG) today announced its utilization of streaming services from Akamai Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high-performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media and applications.

WNRG selected Akamai's streaming services to provide its end users with a high performance, reliable streaming media experience.

Key WNRG properties that will take advantage of Akamai's FreeFlow(SM) Streaming service will be UltraVu.com, Sprocket Radio.com and Sprocket Music.com. UltraVu will utilize Akamai's technology to deliver high-quality streaming video for interviews, corporate training and presentations and a variety of other interactive media experiences.

Sprocket Music and Sprocket Radio will use the FreeFlow Streaming service to deliver high fidelity music and programming 24 hours a day worldwide.

"Akamai's services not only increase the speed and quality of our content and streaming media delivery to the end user, but enable us to handle large spikes in traffic at any time of day. Through the use of Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service, we can provide our end users with a more reliable, compelling Web experience," said Stephen Brown, president and CEO of WNRG.

"WorldNet Resource Group is an exciting customer for Akamai given its focus on entertainment media. Our global distribution service will enhance WorldNet Resource Group's ability to deliver its interactive media content with improved quality and reliability," said Chris Turner, vice president, North American sales, Akamai. "We are pleased to help WorldNet Resource Group with its efforts to create compelling media properties."

About Akamai

Akamai is the foremost provider of global, high-performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, serving more than 2,100 customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media and applications delivery with more than 4,200 servers in 50 countries directly connected to 225 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.

About WorldNet Resource Group

WorldNet Resource Group is dedicated to developing and expanding business properties into the new age. Taking the traditional business model and enhancing its development with the aid of new media technologies, WNRG creates a multifaceted presence both online and in traditional arenas. Based in Marina Del Rey, WNRG intends to develop and implement strategic alliances with key commerce and entertainment companies, broadening its presence worldwide.

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.