Akamai and Apple Extend Commitment to Deliver Industry Leading Internet Streaming Video and Audio; Akamai Supports Worldwide Delivery of Apple's Record-Setting Movie Trailers

Business Wire, July 15, 2002

Business/Technology Editors

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) today announced the adoption of its global platform and content distribution services in support of Apple's hugely popular QuickTime Movie Trailers site that lets Internet users view the most popular Hollywood trailers. Akamai's suite of services currently provide the worldwide infrastructure to support content delivery and software downloads for Apple.com, as well as serving as the backbone for Apple's QuickTime Streaming Operations.

Extending its use of Akamai's services, Apple has added EdgeSuite(SM) to efficiently enable global distribution of its high-demand movie trailers. Recently, in advance of the release of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, the Akamai solution supported the delivery of more than 20 million trailer downloads.

"Apple and Akamai continue to deliver the highest performance, highest quality streaming video and audio over the Internet," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Apple's QuickTime Movie Trailers are extremely popular and require a scalable infrastructure to support their rich broadband content. Akamai is unique in its ability to ensure a high quality and reliable download for Apple's online audience, even during times of peak demand."

Apple has been working with Akamai since 1999, and has taken advantage of a range of integrated capabilities including global traffic management and site visitor analysis tools. Apple is extending its use of these functionalities to enable greater insight into Apple.com's usage, and to make business-critical decisions based on end-user patterns.

"We're extremely pleased to once again build upon our relationship with Apple, one of Akamai's earliest customers, to support Apple's worldwide content delivery needs," said Paul Sagan, president of Akamai. "Apple is one-of-a-kind in their use of the Web to drive their business and brand, and Apple offers end users an engaging entertainment medium via QuickTime Streaming Operations. Apple's growing use of our flagship services is testament to the depth and breadth of Akamai's technology platform."

Apple and Akamai's long-standing relationship to optimize the quality of streaming video and audio over the Internet includes the distribution of hundreds of millions of movie trailers, including those for Star Wars Episodes I and II, as well as a series of record-setting webcasts of Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote presentations. At Macworld Expo San Francisco earlier this year, for example, the keynote webcast set Internet records with a peak of more than 16.5 Gigabits per second of video streamed at broadband rates to more than 81,000 live simultaneous viewers.

About Akamai

Akamai is a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 12,600 servers within over 1,000 networks in 66 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services and industry-renowned customer care to hundreds of enterprises worldwide, including dozens of Fortune 500 businesses. For information on Delivering a Better Internet(SM), 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, general economic conditions, any material, unexpected increases in Akamai's use of funds, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, lack of market acceptance of new services, including EdgeSuite, a failure by us to successfully enter into any license, technology development or other technology partnership agreement within the time periods expected by us or at all, 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.