CNN.com Uses Akamai's Services on Election Day, Serves Record-Breaking Traffic
CNN.com worked with Akamai to deliver election coverage, including live and on-demand audio and video feeds of the presidential contest and regular news updates on the presidential, congressional, gubernatorial and ballot contests. Throughout the multi-day election period, Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service and scalable network helped CNN.com provide quality, reliable streaming experiences to more than 65,000 concurrent viewers. Akamai's FreeFlowSM service delivered non-streaming content with speed and performance, thus allowing CNN.com to handle spikes in traffic throughout the critical hours of the election. Akamai's Traffic Analyzer tool calculated the record-breaking data in real-time, monitoring all Internet traffic activity for CNN.com during Election Day.
"CNN is recognized as a worldwide leader in news and information delivery," said Paul Sagan, president, Akamai. "Having worked closely with CNN.com throughout several major media events, we see Election Day as a milestone for Akamai's ability to support and scale to meet the needs of our customers' most important and business-critical requirements."
Akamai's FreeFlow and FreeFlow Streaming services are built upon the Company's EdgeAdvantageSM platform that uses sophisticated algorithms to monitor the Internet on a real-time basis, understand the location of the requesting user, and make intelligent decisions about the best and most efficient Akamai edge server from which to deliver content to the end user.
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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 within 335 different telecommunications networks.
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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 failure of the new service offerings described herein to achieve commercial success or viability, 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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Akamai's content delivery network helps CNN Web sites deliver more than 100 million page impressions and 6.3 million unique visitors on November 7, Election Day
Cambridge, MA, November 9, 2000 - Akamai Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP), today announced that its services were used to enable millions of users to stay informed throughout CNN's online coverage of Election Day. CNN.com used Akamai's content and streaming delivery services to serve up-to-the-minute election coverage to a record-breaking audience with speed, performance and reliability.CNN.com worked with Akamai to deliver election coverage, including live and on-demand audio and video feeds of the presidential contest and regular news updates on the presidential, congressional, gubernatorial and ballot contests. Throughout the multi-day election period, Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service and scalable network helped CNN.com provide quality, reliable streaming experiences to more than 65,000 concurrent viewers. Akamai's FreeFlowSM service delivered non-streaming content with speed and performance, thus allowing CNN.com to handle spikes in traffic throughout the critical hours of the election. Akamai's Traffic Analyzer tool calculated the record-breaking data in real-time, monitoring all Internet traffic activity for CNN.com during Election Day.
"CNN is recognized as a worldwide leader in news and information delivery," said Paul Sagan, president, Akamai. "Having worked closely with CNN.com throughout several major media events, we see Election Day as a milestone for Akamai's ability to support and scale to meet the needs of our customers' most important and business-critical requirements."
Akamai's FreeFlow and FreeFlow Streaming services are built upon the Company's EdgeAdvantageSM platform that uses sophisticated algorithms to monitor the Internet on a real-time basis, understand the location of the requesting user, and make intelligent decisions about the best and most efficient Akamai edge server from which to deliver content to the end user.
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 within 335 different telecommunications networks.
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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 failure of the new service offerings described herein to achieve commercial success or viability, 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.
