Akamai and Apple Deliver Streaming Media Content for FOXSports.com
The FOXSports channels on Apple's QTV, which are delivered through Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service, feature four separate channels that give daily sports updates such as the recent Webcast of Michael Jordan's announcement to become the head of basketball operations for the Washington Wizzards and Casey Martin's PGA debut.
Combined with the recent acquisition of Network24, Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming offers world-class technology for streaming reliability and performance using the largest global network for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications all built on Akamai's EdgeAdvantageTM platform.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo and Cupertino, California, and Europe. 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 (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 Registration Statement on Form S-1 and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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Super Bowl streaming event expected to be one of the largest streaming media events in history
CAMBRIDGE, MA, January 25, 2000 -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, and Apple Computers (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced today that FOXSports.com will be delivering the daily live Super Week Webcasts, live chats from the FOXSports.com web site, as well as all four FOXSports channels on Apple's QuickTime TV (QTV) Network, for which Akamai is the exclusive network provider. Using Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service, FOXSports will air the Super Bowl Webcasts daily at 3:00 P.M. EST and run through Friday and during halftime of Super Bowl XXXIV. The Webcasts, which will be live from Atlanta, feature analysis, updates, and news surrounding the upcoming Super Bowl broadcast.The FOXSports channels on Apple's QTV, which are delivered through Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service, feature four separate channels that give daily sports updates such as the recent Webcast of Michael Jordan's announcement to become the head of basketball operations for the Washington Wizzards and Casey Martin's PGA debut.
Combined with the recent acquisition of Network24, Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming offers world-class technology for streaming reliability and performance using the largest global network for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications all built on Akamai's EdgeAdvantageTM platform.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo and Cupertino, California, and Europe. 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 (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
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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 Registration Statement on Form S-1 and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
