Akamai EdgeSuite Optimizes Online Experience for Global Users of Nasdaq.com
Nasdaq.com has become a leader among financial Web sites, providing business-critical information about the approximately 3,700 companies listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market to more than 6.5 million unique visitors. The recently redesigned Nasdaq.com site, which receives more than 200 million page views per month, offers comprehensive data for securities listed on all major global exchanges, U.S. equity options and mutual funds, as well as pre-market and after-hours extended trading data. The ability for NASDAQ to provide this information to users in the most reliable, high-performance fashion is essential, especially amid today's unsettled market conditions.
"NASDAQ's strong commitment to serving customers in the most optimal manner extends to our use of new technologies to ensure that our e-business operations perform without flaw," said John Delta, vice president and general manager, worldwide marketing, Nasdaq.com. "With EdgeSuite, Akamai has given us the ability to scale our Web business without future build-out, while simultaneously enhancing site performance and safeguarding our existing infrastructure against downtime."
"NASDAQ brings millions of investors together with the world's leading companies, and has established its business and brand as a recognized authority in information movement and exchange," said Mark Vargo, vice president, global marketing at Akamai. "With the use of EdgeSuite as a scalable extension to its Web infrastructure, Nasdaq.com can deliver information globally, where it's needed, when it's needed, without worry."
About Akamai
Akamai provides products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure. Having deployed the world's largest, globally-distributed computing platform, Akamai ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability, security, and performance of networked information and application delivery between the origin and the destination of any e-business process. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with research and development centers around the world, Akamai's industry-leading products and services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of successful enterprises, government entities, and Web businesses around the globe. For more information, 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, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by hackers or others, failure of our telecommunications suppliers to provide sufficient transmission capacity, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
| Contacts: |
||
| Jeff Young Media Relations Akamai Technologies 617-444-3913 jyoung@akamai.com |
--or-- | J.C. Raby Investor Relations Akamai Technologies 617-444-2555 jraby@akamai.com |
Akamai's e-business infrastructure extension services selected as key to leader within financial services market
CAMBRIDGE, MA - January 8, 2003 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:AKAM), a provider of products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure, today announced that NASDAQ will implement the Akamai EdgeSuiteSM service across Nasdaq.com to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure delivery of content. Akamai's expanding customer base within the financial services market and proven solutions for the delivery of mission-critical information on a global scale were paramount to NASDAQ's selection of EdgeSuite.Nasdaq.com has become a leader among financial Web sites, providing business-critical information about the approximately 3,700 companies listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market to more than 6.5 million unique visitors. The recently redesigned Nasdaq.com site, which receives more than 200 million page views per month, offers comprehensive data for securities listed on all major global exchanges, U.S. equity options and mutual funds, as well as pre-market and after-hours extended trading data. The ability for NASDAQ to provide this information to users in the most reliable, high-performance fashion is essential, especially amid today's unsettled market conditions.
"NASDAQ's strong commitment to serving customers in the most optimal manner extends to our use of new technologies to ensure that our e-business operations perform without flaw," said John Delta, vice president and general manager, worldwide marketing, Nasdaq.com. "With EdgeSuite, Akamai has given us the ability to scale our Web business without future build-out, while simultaneously enhancing site performance and safeguarding our existing infrastructure against downtime."
"NASDAQ brings millions of investors together with the world's leading companies, and has established its business and brand as a recognized authority in information movement and exchange," said Mark Vargo, vice president, global marketing at Akamai. "With the use of EdgeSuite as a scalable extension to its Web infrastructure, Nasdaq.com can deliver information globally, where it's needed, when it's needed, without worry."
About Akamai
Akamai provides products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure. Having deployed the world's largest, globally-distributed computing platform, Akamai ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability, security, and performance of networked information and application delivery between the origin and the destination of any e-business process. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with research and development centers around the world, Akamai's industry-leading products and services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of successful enterprises, government entities, and Web businesses around the globe. For more information, 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, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by hackers or others, failure of our telecommunications suppliers to provide sufficient transmission capacity, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
