Over 100 Top Web Properties Select Akamai
Akamai's customers are among the Web's most successful. They have all selected Akamai and its FreeFlow service on the strength of three fundamental advantages:
"Akamai allows me to deliver a significantly better customer experience at a lower cost," said Dwight Gibbs, chief techie geek at The Motley Fool. "Hard to believe, no? Throw in the tight security, superior reliability, and stellar customer service and you have a pretty compelling offering. In a word, Akamai rocks."
"We are working very hard to improve the ease, reliability and functionality that content providers need to deliver their business over the Internet," said George Conrades, chairman and CEO of Akamai. "We are thrilled to see such a definitive vote of confidence in our service through the addition of such high-quality customers to our content and application delivery platform. We are committed to the continued evolution of our offering."
Among the more than 100 customers who have selected Akamai’s services, the following is a representative list:
"Britannica.com has continued to see improved performance and reliability since implementing Akamai's service," said Kent Devereaux, senior VP of product development and editorial at Britannica.com Inc. "We were flooded with millions of hits to our site, and Akamai allowed us to reliably support all our visitors. Akamai is helping us deliver our bandwidth-intensive data, including over 10,000 images, and will be increasingly important as we continue to add rich media such as Flash and QuickTime to our site."
"Akamai's Internet content and application delivery services become a critical component of our Web infrastructure strategy," said Jason Conyard, director of worldwide communications for Symantec. "As a result of their solution, we will provide a better experience for our customers. Our Web business will be able to effectively scale to meet the exploding on-line demand for our products."
"Akamai's solution is a scalable and reliable platform to deliver products and services to customers, said Sean Moriarty," director of Internet Systems for Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, Inc. "We look forward to being a part of their platform as we evolve our service offering for our customers."
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Akamai provides a global Internet content and application delivery service to leading Web properties requiring highly reliable, high performance web sites to meet their business goals. Currently, Akamai has 1475 servers deployed in 24 countries across 55 different telecommunications networks. Akamai's FreeFlow service ranked first in Network World's "The Best" issue for "category breaking" products. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
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Britannica.com, CBS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Monster.com, Nasdaq(R), Symantec and Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch are among today's leading Web properties selecting Akamai Technologies
CAMBRIDGE, MA, November 23, 1999 -- Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM), which offers a global, high-performance service for the delivery of Internet content and applications, announced today that it has signed over 100 customers. Since launching its revolutionary FreeFlow SM service in April of this year, Akamai is rapidly expanding its customer list with today's bellwether Web properties across all industries, including financial services, retail, eCommerce, media & entertainment, software distribution, and publishing.Akamai's customers are among the Web's most successful. They have all selected Akamai and its FreeFlow service on the strength of three fundamental advantages:
- The Akamai solution significantly improves Web site performance and reliability by ensuring the delivery of rich, secure, authenticated and dynamic content, applications and streaming media.
- Akamai has the largest, most global network of servers in the industry, deployed across multiple carriers, interoperating with leading caches and in the closest proximity to users as possible.
- Akamai’s research and development team, comprised of more than 125 world-renowned research scientists and Internet technology visionaries has developed a platform that will extend from content delivery to the next generation of application services.
"Akamai allows me to deliver a significantly better customer experience at a lower cost," said Dwight Gibbs, chief techie geek at The Motley Fool. "Hard to believe, no? Throw in the tight security, superior reliability, and stellar customer service and you have a pretty compelling offering. In a word, Akamai rocks."
"We are working very hard to improve the ease, reliability and functionality that content providers need to deliver their business over the Internet," said George Conrades, chairman and CEO of Akamai. "We are thrilled to see such a definitive vote of confidence in our service through the addition of such high-quality customers to our content and application delivery platform. We are committed to the continued evolution of our offering."
Among the more than 100 customers who have selected Akamai’s services, the following is a representative list:
| About.com Americasbaby.com Apple Artisan Entertainment Inc. Bluefly.com Britannica.com Inc. CBS CCBN.com, Inc. Chicago Sun-Times The Children’s Place CNN Interactive computer.com Discovery Enterprises Worldwide Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) eBags.com eCampus.com 4anything.com Furniture.com Gomez.com GO Network Headhunter.net Homeportfolio.com JCPenney KBkids.com Theknot.com |
Lids.com Listen.com Looksmart Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Microsoft’s Streaming Media Division Mondera.com Monster.com The Motley Fool The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. Oxygen Media Paramount Digital Entertainment Publishers Clearing House Progressive Insurance SEND.COM ShopNow.com Inc. SmarterKids.com Space.com Symantec Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, Inc. Times Company Digital VerticalNet washingtonpost.com wine.com Wrenchhead.com Yahoo! |
"Britannica.com has continued to see improved performance and reliability since implementing Akamai's service," said Kent Devereaux, senior VP of product development and editorial at Britannica.com Inc. "We were flooded with millions of hits to our site, and Akamai allowed us to reliably support all our visitors. Akamai is helping us deliver our bandwidth-intensive data, including over 10,000 images, and will be increasingly important as we continue to add rich media such as Flash and QuickTime to our site."
"Akamai's Internet content and application delivery services become a critical component of our Web infrastructure strategy," said Jason Conyard, director of worldwide communications for Symantec. "As a result of their solution, we will provide a better experience for our customers. Our Web business will be able to effectively scale to meet the exploding on-line demand for our products."
"Akamai's solution is a scalable and reliable platform to deliver products and services to customers, said Sean Moriarty," director of Internet Systems for Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, Inc. "We look forward to being a part of their platform as we evolve our service offering for our customers."
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Akamai provides a global Internet content and application delivery service to leading Web properties requiring highly reliable, high performance web sites to meet their business goals. Currently, Akamai has 1475 servers deployed in 24 countries across 55 different telecommunications networks. Akamai's FreeFlow service ranked first in Network World's "The Best" issue for "category breaking" products. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
