Akamai Streams CBS SportsLine's Live Online Coverage of NCAA Basketball Tournament
Through the use of Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service, CBS SportsLine provides the only Web site featuring live audiocasts of all 63 NCAA tournament games and on-demand video highlights following each day's action. Akamai's FreeFlow service is serving the rich images and engaging content found on the CBS SportsLine site. During the opening four days of the NCAA Championship, which tipped off on March 16, Akamai's streaming service supported CBS SportsLine's record-breaking traffic of more than 93 million page views, delivering users high-fidelity audio streams of each game played.
"Akamai's advanced network for streaming audio and video has contributed to SportsLine.com's achieving new traffic records this past weekend," said Dan Leichtenschlag, senior vice president, operations for SportsLine.com, the leading global Internet sports media company. "At the peak of traffic, Akamai was serving over 14,000 simultaneous audio streams for CBS SportsLine. Akamai's technology assisted us in being able to handle all traffic spikes while consistently delivering high quality streams in the same manner as an average day. With Akamai's streaming technology in place, our college hoops fans can rely on CBS SportsLine for superior and reliable delivery of the entire NCAA Basketball Tournament."
"Similar to the rapid pace that the market has accepted FreeFlow, Akamai's streaming service has been embraced by leading Web properties such as CBS SportsLine for its high quality, reliable delivery of the largest, live audiocasts," said Earl Galleher, vice president, worldwide sales and support, Akamai. "Through the successful delivery of high-profile events like March Mayhem, Akamai makes streaming media a reality -- today."
Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service offers world-class technology for streaming reliability and performance using the largest global network for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications. FreeFlow Streaming distributes broadcast content to the edges of the Internet, eliminating degradation in quality and reliability. As a result, end users experience significantly improved audio and video delivery with enhanced performance.
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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Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service supports record-breaking traffic to CBS SportsLine's web site
CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 22, 2000 -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high-performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, announced today that SportsLine.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLN), publisher of CBS SportsLine (cbs.sportsline.com), has selected Akamai as the exclusive delivery network to stream live audiocasts of the 2000 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship for CBS SportsLine's coverage of March Mayhem. Akamai began streaming live coverage for CBS SportsLine with first round tournament games on March 16 and will continue streaming the event through the final championship game on April 3.Through the use of Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service, CBS SportsLine provides the only Web site featuring live audiocasts of all 63 NCAA tournament games and on-demand video highlights following each day's action. Akamai's FreeFlow service is serving the rich images and engaging content found on the CBS SportsLine site. During the opening four days of the NCAA Championship, which tipped off on March 16, Akamai's streaming service supported CBS SportsLine's record-breaking traffic of more than 93 million page views, delivering users high-fidelity audio streams of each game played.
"Akamai's advanced network for streaming audio and video has contributed to SportsLine.com's achieving new traffic records this past weekend," said Dan Leichtenschlag, senior vice president, operations for SportsLine.com, the leading global Internet sports media company. "At the peak of traffic, Akamai was serving over 14,000 simultaneous audio streams for CBS SportsLine. Akamai's technology assisted us in being able to handle all traffic spikes while consistently delivering high quality streams in the same manner as an average day. With Akamai's streaming technology in place, our college hoops fans can rely on CBS SportsLine for superior and reliable delivery of the entire NCAA Basketball Tournament."
"Similar to the rapid pace that the market has accepted FreeFlow, Akamai's streaming service has been embraced by leading Web properties such as CBS SportsLine for its high quality, reliable delivery of the largest, live audiocasts," said Earl Galleher, vice president, worldwide sales and support, Akamai. "Through the successful delivery of high-profile events like March Mayhem, Akamai makes streaming media a reality -- today."
Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service offers world-class technology for streaming reliability and performance using the largest global network for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications. FreeFlow Streaming distributes broadcast content to the edges of the Internet, eliminating degradation in quality and reliability. As a result, end users experience significantly improved audio and video delivery with enhanced performance.
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.
