MSHOW.com to Leverage Akamai's Global Platform Through Strategic Alliance
MSHOW.com delivers Web conferencing tools, interactive broadcasting and streaming capabilities as a single service to any desktop, anywhere in the world. As a result of the alliance with Akamai, MSHOW.com will be able to leverage the Akamai EdgeAdvantageSM platform, broaden its market reach as an enterprise streaming application provider, and complement its Web communications tools through offering Akamai's interactive broadcast capabilities.
"Our relationship with Akamai enables MSHOW.com to very quickly scale our business on top of the distributed Akamai global platform," said Bob Ogdon, chief executive officer, chairman and founder of MSHOW.com. "MSHOW.com recognizes Akamai's large-scale edge content delivery network as key to ensuring high-quality delivery of rich media on the Internet, especially streaming audio and video."
"This alliance is representative of the types of leading applications that can leverage the Akamai platform," said Paul Sagan, president of Akamai. "We are excited to welcome MSHOW.com as a reseller of Akamai's services to expand our channel for corporate webcasting. MSHOW.com's streaming applications provide online collaboration functionality that complements Akamai's interactive broadcast services. We believe this will be an extremely positive relationship, and that our customers will benefit from the success of this alliance."
MSHOW integrates IP video and audio streaming, telephony and rich media with a patented pre-caching technology, TogetherwareTM, that synchronizes audio and video regardless of each individual end-users' bandwidth. MSHOW.com's service is highly collaborative, and provides such functionality as application demonstration, annotation tools, voting and polling, interactive chat and audience messaging.
As an Akamai reseller, MSHOW.com will make the following services available to its enterprise customers: MSHOW integrated with Akamai's FreeFlow service for content delivery, FreeFlow Streaming service for broadcast-quality streaming media, and Akamai's streaming media application systems, including Akamai Forum, a feature-rich, complete event management system that offers studio-quality and highly-flexible production capabilities for streaming webcasts. Akamai Forum accommodates a broad range of signal acquisition and production options, and includes robust functionality such as integrated registration, program series management, branded "look and feel," and reporting.
About MSHOW.com
Founded in 1996, MSHOW.com is the leader in Internet communication services and the only company to deliver Web conferencing, streaming and interactive broadcasting services to the enterprise. MSHOW.com delivers real-time, interactive events, presentations and meetings to thousands of participants via the Web. Headquartered in Denver, MSHOW.com has offices in Austin, Chicago and London. For more information, log on to www.MSHOW.com.
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 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, changes in the market for interactive webcasting services, any incompatibility between MSHOW.com's technology and Akamai's platform and network, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, the complexity of Akamai's services and the networks on which such services are 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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MSHOW.com expands its enterprise streaming solutions as a reseller of Akamai's services; offers Akamai's interactive broadcast capabilities along with its own Web communications applications to provide end-to-end solution
Cambridge, MA and Highlands Ranch, CO -- December 21, 2000 -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP), and MSHOW.com, a leader in e-communications services, today announced that the companies have entered into a strategic alliance. Under the terms of the agreement, MSHOW.com will utilize Akamai's globally distributed platform and streaming delivery network to power and enhance the MSHOW.com suite of Internet communications services, including Web collaboration, interactive broadcasting and streaming media. MSHOW.com will also become a reseller of Akamai's content delivery services including Akamai's FreeFlowSM and FreeFlowSM Streaming services, as well as Akamai's interactive broadcast streaming media application systems.MSHOW.com delivers Web conferencing tools, interactive broadcasting and streaming capabilities as a single service to any desktop, anywhere in the world. As a result of the alliance with Akamai, MSHOW.com will be able to leverage the Akamai EdgeAdvantageSM platform, broaden its market reach as an enterprise streaming application provider, and complement its Web communications tools through offering Akamai's interactive broadcast capabilities.
"Our relationship with Akamai enables MSHOW.com to very quickly scale our business on top of the distributed Akamai global platform," said Bob Ogdon, chief executive officer, chairman and founder of MSHOW.com. "MSHOW.com recognizes Akamai's large-scale edge content delivery network as key to ensuring high-quality delivery of rich media on the Internet, especially streaming audio and video."
"This alliance is representative of the types of leading applications that can leverage the Akamai platform," said Paul Sagan, president of Akamai. "We are excited to welcome MSHOW.com as a reseller of Akamai's services to expand our channel for corporate webcasting. MSHOW.com's streaming applications provide online collaboration functionality that complements Akamai's interactive broadcast services. We believe this will be an extremely positive relationship, and that our customers will benefit from the success of this alliance."
MSHOW integrates IP video and audio streaming, telephony and rich media with a patented pre-caching technology, TogetherwareTM, that synchronizes audio and video regardless of each individual end-users' bandwidth. MSHOW.com's service is highly collaborative, and provides such functionality as application demonstration, annotation tools, voting and polling, interactive chat and audience messaging.
As an Akamai reseller, MSHOW.com will make the following services available to its enterprise customers: MSHOW integrated with Akamai's FreeFlow service for content delivery, FreeFlow Streaming service for broadcast-quality streaming media, and Akamai's streaming media application systems, including Akamai Forum, a feature-rich, complete event management system that offers studio-quality and highly-flexible production capabilities for streaming webcasts. Akamai Forum accommodates a broad range of signal acquisition and production options, and includes robust functionality such as integrated registration, program series management, branded "look and feel," and reporting.
About MSHOW.com
Founded in 1996, MSHOW.com is the leader in Internet communication services and the only company to deliver Web conferencing, streaming and interactive broadcasting services to the enterprise. MSHOW.com delivers real-time, interactive events, presentations and meetings to thousands of participants via the Web. Headquartered in Denver, MSHOW.com has offices in Austin, Chicago and London. For more information, log on to www.MSHOW.com.
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, changes in the market for interactive webcasting services, any incompatibility between MSHOW.com's technology and Akamai's platform and network, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, the complexity of Akamai's services and the networks on which such services are 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.
