Akamai and America Online in Alliance to Deliver High-Performance Internet Content and Streaming Media - Company Business and Marketing

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, Feb 21, 2000

Akamai Technologies, the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, Wednesday announced an alliance with America Online, Inc. (AOL), the world's leading interactive services company, to deploy Akamai edge servers within the AOL network to improve performance and reliability for the delivery of some of the Web's most popular content to AOL members. Akamai will also make guaranteed payments to AOL.

Akamai's deployment of its technology within the AOL network will enable AOL to serve Internet content to its members directly from within the AOL network, speeding the delivery of Akamai-served content to these members. It will also improve quality and reliability of large audio and video streaming events served by Akamai from within AOL's network.

"High performance content, streaming media, and applications delivery is best achieved at the edges of the Internet, and deploying Akamai servers within AOL's network will improve Akamai's industry-leading performance and benefit AOL's more than 21 million members," said George Conrades, chairman and CEO of Akamai. "We look forward to building on our successful AOL relationship that started with the NetAid concert in October and has now been enhanced with this new alliance."

"AOL is constantly working to improve our user experience by adding the best technology to our network," said Joe Barrett, AOL's Vice President, Internet Operations. "By working with Akamai, we can bring their high-performance service to benefit our members."

Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo and Cupertino, California. Akamai is the leader in distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery, serving over 225 of the Web's most popular properties including over 100 leading e-commerce companies. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 2000 servers in over 40 countries directly connected to more than 100 different telecommunications networks. Akamai has announced its intention to acquire INTERVU, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITVU), a leader in audio and video streaming media, which has over 1000 customers for live event, broadcast, and on-demand services. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.