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U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Government Printing Office, and the Voice of America among government agencies to outsource Web infrastructure to Akamai
CAMBRIDGE, MA, May 29, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leading provider of distributed application and content delivery services, today announced a series of significant customer wins among U.S. federal government organizations who have selected Akamai for their mission-critical Web infrastructure needs. Among the government agencies that are taking advantage of Akamai's services are the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), and the Voice of America.Akamai has seen its customer base grow in the federal sector as more organizations, which have migrated processes and services to the Internet, seek higher performing Web operations while reducing complexities and infrastructure costs. Akamai's portfolio of distributed application and content delivery services allow these organizations to cost-effectively maximize Web performance on a global scale.
"Today's government agencies are taking full advantage of the Internet for timely, cost-effective communications and interaction with citizens and businesses," said Mike Campbell, vice president of sales, Akamai. "There is a wealth of both information and information exchange that government agencies are making available online, further demonstrating the need for mission-critical infrastructure services that leverage the Internet's edge for top performance. This sector represents a tremendous opportunity for Akamai, and as a result, we have rapidly expanded our sales and support efforts in the Washington D.C. area."
U.S. Census Bureau (www.census.gov)
The U.S. Census Bureau chose Akamai's next-generation EdgeSuiteSM service to power its immense online resource for timely data and information on U.S. demographics and the economy. In addition to enhancing site performance, the EdgeSuite service has greatly reduced bandwidth and load on the Census Bureau's systems, enabling the organization to focus on its core mission of providing quality data and services.
"With the release of Census Data and products on our Web site, the increase in the load on our systems was unknown," said David Raszewski, senior Internet Technology Architect, U.S. Census Bureau. "Implementing Akamai's EdgeSuite service reduced the hits on our server by 70 percent, reducing the load on our systems and delivering better performance for customers at the same time."
U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)
Created primarily to satisfy the printing needs of Congress, GPO today is the focal point for printing, binding, and information dissemination for the entire Federal community, including developing and managing many of the Web sites for U.S. Federal agencies. GPO-developed Web sites, leveraging Akamai's content delivery capabilities, have experienced significant reduction in page download times, while being able to scale to meet the demands of high volumes of end user traffic.
Voice of America (www.voanews.com) One of the largest news-gathering organizations in the world, the Voice of America provides comprehensive information on world, U.S., and regional news to an international audience. A radio and television broadcaster, the Voice of America is leveraging the Internet in order to enhance communications to its global audience. Using Akamai's streaming services, the Voice of America provides live and on-demand audio and video broadcasts of its news content in 53 languages to its audience, reliably delivering close to 200 hours of content per day.
"The Internet provides a cost-effective method to distribute broadcast-quality content, and the addition of streaming media to our web site has significantly increased our popularity with our online audience," said Connie Stephens, Internet development director for the Voice of America.
Akamai's federal sales organization is based in Fairfax, VA. For additional information, please call (703) 383-5800, or contact federalsales@akamai.com.
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading provider of distributed application and content delivery services, enabling companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 9,700 servers within 650 networks in more than 56 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services to more than 1,400 companies worldwide.
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.
