Connexus and Akamai Join Forces to Accelerate Web-based Business Communications
The Akamai Conference service is a family of conference casting solutions that incorporates live audio and video streaming services, and one-to-many interactive communications technology, into traditional conference call offerings. The Akamai Conference service is made available to businesses only through a number of key conferencing service providers who are providing these solutions as part of their overall conferencing offerings. The agreement with Akamai enables Connexus to deliver a value-added service to its customers for automated conference casting.
"This relationship with Akamai allows us to enhance our worldwide network of VideoConference Public Rooms, providing Internet Broadcast Studios at a fraction of the cost usually incurred by the end user," said Jonathan Schlesinger, president, Connexus. "We're pleased to work with Akamai to add a new level of value to our VideoConference services."
Connexus' VideoConference services provide a high-level communications ability for business users who require long-distance meetings in locations where they do not have their own VideoConference Systems deployed. In addition, Connexus provides interactive conferencing between multiple sites, regardless of whether they are privately owned or public locations. "Now more than ever, interactive streaming is creating new revenue opportunities for conferencing service providers as businesses look to the Internet to increase efficiencies and reduce expenses," said Bob Hughes, director of channel sales and programs, Akamai. "Through our relationship with Connexus, organizations will benefit from a powerful conferencing application that enables them to better leverage the Internet for effective business communications."
The Akamai Conference service is a self-automated communications application for conducting effective business communications over the Web. As a conference casting solution, the service manages the signal acquisition through the telephone or videoconferencing equipment; encoding and delivery of live streaming audio and video; synchronized presentation materials; moderated, interactive messaging; and real-time polling. A conference cast session can be viewed on-demand afterward, and because it is broadcast over the Web, business customers get a post-conference report on all participant activity.
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.
About Connexus
Connexus, Inc., based in Dallas, Texas, is a VideoConference Services company offering Public Room Access, MCU Management, Equipment, Consulting, Scheduling Services and Training. Connexus has been in business since 1989 and is exclusively engaged in providing VideoConferencing Services.
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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Connexus to offer the Akamai Conference service as a value add for customers
Dallas, TX and Cambridge, MA - December 11, 2000 - Connexus, Inc., a VideoConference services provider, and Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP), today announced a strategic agreement through which Connexus will offer the Akamai Conference service to its customers for cost-effective, interactive Web conferencing. Users of Connexus MCU Bridging Services and VideoConference Public Rooms will now benefit from the ability to conduct reliable, engaging Web conferences that incorporate high-quality audio and video streaming media.The Akamai Conference service is a family of conference casting solutions that incorporates live audio and video streaming services, and one-to-many interactive communications technology, into traditional conference call offerings. The Akamai Conference service is made available to businesses only through a number of key conferencing service providers who are providing these solutions as part of their overall conferencing offerings. The agreement with Akamai enables Connexus to deliver a value-added service to its customers for automated conference casting.
"This relationship with Akamai allows us to enhance our worldwide network of VideoConference Public Rooms, providing Internet Broadcast Studios at a fraction of the cost usually incurred by the end user," said Jonathan Schlesinger, president, Connexus. "We're pleased to work with Akamai to add a new level of value to our VideoConference services."
Connexus' VideoConference services provide a high-level communications ability for business users who require long-distance meetings in locations where they do not have their own VideoConference Systems deployed. In addition, Connexus provides interactive conferencing between multiple sites, regardless of whether they are privately owned or public locations. "Now more than ever, interactive streaming is creating new revenue opportunities for conferencing service providers as businesses look to the Internet to increase efficiencies and reduce expenses," said Bob Hughes, director of channel sales and programs, Akamai. "Through our relationship with Connexus, organizations will benefit from a powerful conferencing application that enables them to better leverage the Internet for effective business communications."
The Akamai Conference service is a self-automated communications application for conducting effective business communications over the Web. As a conference casting solution, the service manages the signal acquisition through the telephone or videoconferencing equipment; encoding and delivery of live streaming audio and video; synchronized presentation materials; moderated, interactive messaging; and real-time polling. A conference cast session can be viewed on-demand afterward, and because it is broadcast over the Web, business customers get a post-conference report on all participant activity.
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.
About Connexus
Connexus, Inc., based in Dallas, Texas, is a VideoConference Services company offering Public Room Access, MCU Management, Equipment, Consulting, Scheduling Services and Training. Connexus has been in business since 1989 and is exclusively engaged in providing VideoConferencing Services.
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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.
