Akamai Technologies and Cable & Wireless Sign Edge co-location Agreement
"The implementation of Akamai's revolutionary technology at the edge of Cable & Wireless' global IP network ensures that our customers have more efficient access to today's popular content," said Zie Rivers, president of Cable & Wireless North America. "Cable & Wireless has just recently announced an Internet milestone with the world's first wire rate clear channel OC-192c 10 Gigabit IP/MPLS circuit, enabling our network to carry more traffic faster. With this advance, Akamai will experience enhanced access to our network and customers."
Under the agreement, Akamai will deploy its servers in U.S. and international Points of Presence (POPs) on Cable & Wireless' global IP network and in Cable & Wireless' data centers around the world. In each location, and as available, Cable & Wireless will provide Gigabit Ethernet connections between Akamai's servers and Cable & Wireless' IP network, enabling enhanced performance of application delivery and end user experience.
"Cable & Wireless owns and operates one of the most robust global IP networks in the world," said Avi Freedman, vice president of network architecture, Akamai. "With the advancements that Cable & Wireless is continuing to make to its global network, Akamai can leverage these strengths to deliver an improved end user experience."
Cable & Wireless recently announced that its Edge Co-location hosting solution will soon be generally available. Cable & Wireless Edge Co-location is a new high-end suite of hosting solutions to meet the high-bandwidth requirements of broadband content providers and the needs of international carriers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). By providing co-location space in its major global IP network sites, Cable & Wireless will enable broadband content providers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to distribute content more efficiently by using its global IP network in order to deliver an extremely high quality Internet experience for their customers.
About Cable & Wireless
Cable & Wireless is a major global telecommunications business with annual revenue of around US$14 billion and customers in 70 countries. Its businesses around the world offer a range of services spanning broadband data, Internet and voice services. Cable & Wireless' priority for expansion is the fast growing market of IP (Internet Protocol) and data services for business customers. It is making major investments in developing advanced networks and services in the US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region to build the world's leading global IP infrastructure. With the capacity of this advanced infrastructure and its presence in key business markets, Cable & Wireless holds a unique position in terms of global coverage and services to business customers.
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery services and serves over 1,000 customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 4,000 servers in over 45 countries directly connected to more than 160 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 Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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| Nikki Laughlin Cable & Wireless 703-760-1574 nikki.laughlin@cwusa.com |
--or-- | Chad Couser Cable & Wireless 703-760-3845 chad.couser@cwusa.com |
| Kate Hawken Brodeur Worldwide (for Cable & Wireless) 202-756-1386 khawken@brodeur.com |
--or-- | Jeff Young Akamai Technologies 617-250-3913 jyoung@akamai.com |
Akamai to Deploy Servers on Edge of Cable & Wireless' Global IP Network
VIENNA, VA and CAMBRIDGE, MA - May 24, 2000- Cable & Wireless (NYSE: CWP), the global telecommunications group, and Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, today announced that the Companies have signed a three-year agreement for the deployment of Akamai edge servers across Cable & Wireless' global IP network. Akamai will broadly deploy its content delivery servers at strategic locations on the edge of Cable & Wireless' network, thereby expanding the global reach of Akamai's Internet content delivery network."The implementation of Akamai's revolutionary technology at the edge of Cable & Wireless' global IP network ensures that our customers have more efficient access to today's popular content," said Zie Rivers, president of Cable & Wireless North America. "Cable & Wireless has just recently announced an Internet milestone with the world's first wire rate clear channel OC-192c 10 Gigabit IP/MPLS circuit, enabling our network to carry more traffic faster. With this advance, Akamai will experience enhanced access to our network and customers."
Under the agreement, Akamai will deploy its servers in U.S. and international Points of Presence (POPs) on Cable & Wireless' global IP network and in Cable & Wireless' data centers around the world. In each location, and as available, Cable & Wireless will provide Gigabit Ethernet connections between Akamai's servers and Cable & Wireless' IP network, enabling enhanced performance of application delivery and end user experience.
"Cable & Wireless owns and operates one of the most robust global IP networks in the world," said Avi Freedman, vice president of network architecture, Akamai. "With the advancements that Cable & Wireless is continuing to make to its global network, Akamai can leverage these strengths to deliver an improved end user experience."
Cable & Wireless recently announced that its Edge Co-location hosting solution will soon be generally available. Cable & Wireless Edge Co-location is a new high-end suite of hosting solutions to meet the high-bandwidth requirements of broadband content providers and the needs of international carriers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). By providing co-location space in its major global IP network sites, Cable & Wireless will enable broadband content providers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to distribute content more efficiently by using its global IP network in order to deliver an extremely high quality Internet experience for their customers.
About Cable & Wireless
Cable & Wireless is a major global telecommunications business with annual revenue of around US$14 billion and customers in 70 countries. Its businesses around the world offer a range of services spanning broadband data, Internet and voice services. Cable & Wireless' priority for expansion is the fast growing market of IP (Internet Protocol) and data services for business customers. It is making major investments in developing advanced networks and services in the US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region to build the world's leading global IP infrastructure. With the capacity of this advanced infrastructure and its presence in key business markets, Cable & Wireless holds a unique position in terms of global coverage and services to business customers.
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery services and serves over 1,000 customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 4,000 servers in over 45 countries directly connected to more than 160 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 Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
