FOCUS Online Enhances Delivery of Rich Content Using Akamai's FreeFlowSM Service
FOCUS Online, a subsidiary of the newly founded FOCUS Digital AG, is one of the most successful information services in the German-speaking region - according to the ATCA 2000 research study, 23.7% of German Internet users visit FOCUS online for information gathering. Daily news, behind-the-scene reports and other useful services are called up quickly and clearly from 11 different topic channels, ranging from finance, computers, cars and transportation to health, jobs, travel, investments and stock markets.
To further enhance its offerings to its users, FOCUS Online is utilizing Akamai's FreeFlow service. Akamai's content delivery service brings measurably greater speed, performance, and reliability of dynamic, rich Web content by delivering such content from Akamai's globally distributed network of more than 6,000 servers located close to Internet end users.
"With Akamai's technology, we reduce the loading time for calling up a Web page and thus significantly increase the speed and reliability at which our content is delivered to end users," said Jörg Bueroße, chief editor of FOCUS Online.
Wolfgang Stähle, president of Akamai Europe, commented: "With FOCUS Online, we now support one of the biggest online journalistic sources in Germany. The speed and performance of the FOCUS Online site today, despite high traffic levels, lends credit to the efficiency of Akamai's FreeFlow service."
About FOCUS Digital AG
FOCUS Digital AG, quoted on the "Neuer Markt" section of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since July 13, 2000, is a media company which is comprised of four business divisions with the aim of delivering "more quality for the Internet": FOCUS Online, one of the leading general interest sites in Germany; Interactive Content Production GmbH (ICP), the ground-breaking specialist for customized content, technology and related services; Interactive Advertising Center (IAC), one of the most successful suppliers of targeted advertising and marketing on the Internet; and Netguide, the innovative guide on the World Wide Web and leading edge technology supplier for high quality portals. In this network, FOCUS Digital combines a high level of Internet expertise (consulting, production, content, community, commerce and online-marketing) with successful brand management. Therefore, FOCUS Digital covers the entire spectrum of added value for Internet publishing, offering its clients a total Internet solution
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. Akamai Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and has European subsidiaries in London, England, Paris, France, and Munich, Germany -- which also serves as Akamai's EMEA headquarters.
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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Focus Online Now "Akamaized": Akamai Delivers Engaging News Content for Germany's Biggest Journalistic Web site
Munich, November 22, 2000 - Akamai Technologies GmbH, the German subsidiary of Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP), today announced that FOCUS Online (www.focus.de) will use Akamai's FreeFlowSM service to optimize its Web site's speed, performance, and reliability. With Akamai's FreeFlow service, FOCUS Online can present its extensive news services faster and more reliably to the growing number of visitors to its Web site.FOCUS Online, a subsidiary of the newly founded FOCUS Digital AG, is one of the most successful information services in the German-speaking region - according to the ATCA 2000 research study, 23.7% of German Internet users visit FOCUS online for information gathering. Daily news, behind-the-scene reports and other useful services are called up quickly and clearly from 11 different topic channels, ranging from finance, computers, cars and transportation to health, jobs, travel, investments and stock markets.
To further enhance its offerings to its users, FOCUS Online is utilizing Akamai's FreeFlow service. Akamai's content delivery service brings measurably greater speed, performance, and reliability of dynamic, rich Web content by delivering such content from Akamai's globally distributed network of more than 6,000 servers located close to Internet end users.
"With Akamai's technology, we reduce the loading time for calling up a Web page and thus significantly increase the speed and reliability at which our content is delivered to end users," said Jörg Bueroße, chief editor of FOCUS Online.
Wolfgang Stähle, president of Akamai Europe, commented: "With FOCUS Online, we now support one of the biggest online journalistic sources in Germany. The speed and performance of the FOCUS Online site today, despite high traffic levels, lends credit to the efficiency of Akamai's FreeFlow service."
About FOCUS Digital AG
FOCUS Digital AG, quoted on the "Neuer Markt" section of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since July 13, 2000, is a media company which is comprised of four business divisions with the aim of delivering "more quality for the Internet": FOCUS Online, one of the leading general interest sites in Germany; Interactive Content Production GmbH (ICP), the ground-breaking specialist for customized content, technology and related services; Interactive Advertising Center (IAC), one of the most successful suppliers of targeted advertising and marketing on the Internet; and Netguide, the innovative guide on the World Wide Web and leading edge technology supplier for high quality portals. In this network, FOCUS Digital combines a high level of Internet expertise (consulting, production, content, community, commerce and online-marketing) with successful brand management. Therefore, FOCUS Digital covers the entire spectrum of added value for Internet publishing, offering its clients a total Internet solution
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. Akamai Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and has European subsidiaries in London, England, Paris, France, and Munich, Germany -- which also serves as Akamai's EMEA headquarters.
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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.
