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Akamai EdgeSuiteSM ensures high performance for www.weforum.org; Akamai streams sessions from landmark meeting of global leaders
CAMBRIDGE, MA - February 4, 2002 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software, announced that the World Economic Forum has turned to the Akamai EdgeSuite service to support its Web operations, including whole-site delivery of www.weforum.org, for the Forum's annual meeting continuing through today in New York."The World Economic Forum brings together the world's foremost leaders in business, government, academia, journalism, and others who are taking part in a crucial exchange of ideas; and their dialogue is attracting attention over the Internet from around the globe," said Paul Sagan, president, Akamai. "To share the dialogue with a worldwide audience requires the unique capabilities of EdgeSuite to meet the Forum's need for continuous uptime and scalability as more and more people look to follow the meeting online."
"Akamai has demonstrated a scalable and reliable distributed computing infrastructure with its proven ability to support landmark events on the Internet," said Malte Godbersen, director, Knowledge Management, at the World Economic Forum. "Initially we supported our Website internally, but due to the worldwide demand for this year's annual meeting we needed a solution built upon an international platform, one that is easily implemented to meet our immediate needs, and provides a cost-effective alternative to trying to build out our own infrastructure - Akamai met all of those requirements. With our on-going meeting in New York, EdgeSuite's robust capabilities are able to support the unprecedented amount of visitor traffic we've been experiencing."
EdgeSuite is an integrated suite of outsourced services for content and application delivery, business intelligence and content targeting. These services are built on the Akamai Platform and make the Internet a reliable and effective platform for conducting e-business.
About the World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum, based in Geneva, Switzerland, is an independent organization committed to improving the state of the world. Funded by the contributions of 1,000 of the world's foremost corporations, the Forum acts in the spirit of entrepreneurship in the global public interest to further economic growth and social progress. The Forum serves its members and society by creating partnerships between and among business, political, intellectual and other leaders of society to define, discuss and advance key issues on the global agenda.
Incorporated in 1971 as a foundation, the World Economic Forum is impartial and not-for-profit, and is tied to no political, partisan or national interests. In 1995 the Forum was awarded NGO consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
About Akamai
Akamai is a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 13,500 servers within over 1,000 networks in 66 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services and industry-renowned customer care to hundreds of enterprises worldwide, including dozens of Fortune 500 businesses. For information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, visit www.akamai.com.
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, general economic conditions, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, potential difficulties that Akamai may encounter in attempting to expand its business into international markets, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, Akamai's ability to protect its intellectual property rights and inventions from third party challenges, and other factors that are discussed in the Akamai's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
