Europatweb Chooses Akamai to Deliver Cutting-Edge Technology to all of its Group Companies
Europatweb's mission is to provide operational support to its network of Internet companies, and finding high-level technological partners is part of this mission. Akamai's ability to solve the three main problems facing content providers on the Internet - performance, scalability and reliability of their web structure - was the determining factor for Europatweb's selection.
Jean David Chamboredon, Europatweb's Technology Director explains, "The services provided by Akamai, and the powerful technologies supporting them, are just what we need for Europatweb's varied sites, which generate significant traffic. Akamai increases response times for surfers, and this is a crucial factor for getting people to revisit a site."
"We are of course very honored to have been chosen by the Arnault Group and Europatweb, who are among the most ambitious and most efficient global players in the net economy," said Bernard Seïté, Akamai Managing Director for Southern Europe. "Akamai's mission includes helping companies such as Europatweb stand out from the competition by enhancing the performance of their web sites and delivery of their wealth of content."
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider serving over 2,800 customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 6,000 servers in 54 countries directly connected inside 335 different telecommunications networks.
About Europatweb
Europatweb is the Internet industrial arm of Paris-based Groupe Arnault. Established in mid-1999 with a capital injection of 500 million euros, Europatweb's mission is to gather together and develop Internet-related companies with strong growth potential. In the U.S., Europatweb has taken strategic stakes in entities such as Quios, Liquidation.com and MetaMarkets.com. The European team of Europatweb contributed to the creation of Liberty Surf, the free Internet access provider, set up the financial portal Zebank and took a majority stake in Aucland, one of the leading online auction sites in Europe. Europatweb is implementing its long-term strategic vision through majority or minority stakes in companies such as Flutter.com, ProXchange, WineandCo, Adonsale, Alafolie, Moonfruit, Linbox and NetValue.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
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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The worldwide general agreement signed by Europatweb and Akamai will allow the 50 companies controlled by Europatweb to speed up their web sites and provide high-quality audio and video streaming
Paris, France -- 30 October 2000 -- Europatweb, the Internet industrial arm of Bernard Arnault's family holding, has chosen Akamai Technologies, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AKAM) FreeFlowSM and FreeFlowSM Streaming services for all companies across Europatweb's group. Europatweb's group companies are strongly positioned in the four most promising fields of activity on the web: virtual marketplaces (Aucland, ImmoStreet.com, Qxl.com, etc.); virtual communities and content providers (Liberty Surf, Peoplesound, Sportal, etc.); technology and services necessary for Internet development (Moonfruit, NetValue, Globeflow, etc.); and e-commerce (Zebank, Alafolie.com, Wine&Co, etc.), and each are set to experience the benefits of Akamai's technology on their sites.Europatweb's mission is to provide operational support to its network of Internet companies, and finding high-level technological partners is part of this mission. Akamai's ability to solve the three main problems facing content providers on the Internet - performance, scalability and reliability of their web structure - was the determining factor for Europatweb's selection.
Jean David Chamboredon, Europatweb's Technology Director explains, "The services provided by Akamai, and the powerful technologies supporting them, are just what we need for Europatweb's varied sites, which generate significant traffic. Akamai increases response times for surfers, and this is a crucial factor for getting people to revisit a site."
"We are of course very honored to have been chosen by the Arnault Group and Europatweb, who are among the most ambitious and most efficient global players in the net economy," said Bernard Seïté, Akamai Managing Director for Southern Europe. "Akamai's mission includes helping companies such as Europatweb stand out from the competition by enhancing the performance of their web sites and delivery of their wealth of content."
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider serving over 2,800 customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 6,000 servers in 54 countries directly connected inside 335 different telecommunications networks.
About Europatweb
Europatweb is the Internet industrial arm of Paris-based Groupe Arnault. Established in mid-1999 with a capital injection of 500 million euros, Europatweb's mission is to gather together and develop Internet-related companies with strong growth potential. In the U.S., Europatweb has taken strategic stakes in entities such as Quios, Liquidation.com and MetaMarkets.com. The European team of Europatweb contributed to the creation of Liberty Surf, the free Internet access provider, set up the financial portal Zebank and took a majority stake in Aucland, one of the leading online auction sites in Europe. Europatweb is implementing its long-term strategic vision through majority or minority stakes in companies such as Flutter.com, ProXchange, WineandCo, Adonsale, Alafolie, Moonfruit, Linbox and NetValue.
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Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
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.
