Akamai Delivers 1.6 Million Streams in Apple QuickTime Format.APPLE QUICKTIME LIVE! CONFERENCE--LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 9, 1999-- As exclusive network provider for Apple QuickTime TV, Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service delivers popular programming created in QuickTime format Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AKAM AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. (stock abbreviation) AKAM Automated Key Access Machine ), which operates a global Internet content delivery service that speeds up Web performance and enables the creation of more engaging content, today announced at the Apple QuickTime Live! Conference that it has delivered over 1.6 million streams of programming in Apple's popular QuickTime format. As the exclusive network provider for Apple's QuickTime TV (QTV QTV QuickTime TV (Apple Computer, Inc.) QTV Queer Television QTV Quality Television (Philippine cable TV channel) QTV Qualified Through Verification (USDA) QTV Quran Television ), Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service has already streamed programs for content providers such as RollingStone.com, Rhino Records, and other leading news, sports, sitcoms, music, movies, and children's shows. Apple and Akamai announced in July of this year the combination of their technologies to build the backbone for Apple's QuickTime TV, creating a high-performing and reliable way for Macintosh and Windows users worldwide to view streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. and audio over the Internet. The result has led to Apple's ability to offer a 24-hour Internet medium that provides live and on-demand news and entertainment programming. The success of the two companies efforts were highlighted at today's QuickTime Live! Conference. "Apple's QuickTime TV features an impressive list of popular programming," said Daniel Lewin, Akamai co-founder and chief technology officer. "Akamai's technology innovations and our partnership with Apple have resulted in a consistently high-performing and reliable network for webcasting QuickTime content, helping to fulfill the promise of streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. ." "QuickTime TV provides premium content over the Internet's most advanced network for streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. and video," said Phil Schiller, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Akamai's service provides a highly reliable and scalable architecture for delivering streaming media." Akamai's streaming technology has enabled the largest live webcast events to date in the QuickTime format including recent keynote addresses made by Apple executives at MacWorld and Seybold San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . Akamai has also delivered the QTV streaming for live musical performances from Melissa Ethridge, Tom Petty and Clint Black; industry events such as the Digital Video/Web Conference and the Internet 2 Conference; and special events including Educause, the Nobel Genetics Conference and the Golden Trailer Awards. Akamai's Internet content delivery service has also enabled Apple to provide more than 23 million downloads of the "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" movie trailer. In addition, Akamai's network delivers the upgrades for Apple's QuickTime software and Macintosh OS 8.6 software. QuickTime TV provides leading content providers with the fastest, most reliable delivery network available for Internet content. The QuickTime Streaming Server QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) is a server or service daemon built into Apple Computer's Mac OS X Server that delivers video and audio on request to users over a computer network or the Internet. Its primary GUI configuration tool is QTSS Publisher. is integrated into the Akamai network, making up the infrastructure for QTV and providing consumers with one-click access to high-quality content. In addition to Akamai being the exclusive provider of QTV, Apple recommends Akamai as the preferred delivery service of content developed in the QuickTime format. FreeFlow Streaming uses Akamai's innovative technology to offer high-quality performance, reliability and scalability for delivering Internet content from the optimal server to each user based on real-time Internet conditions. About Akamai Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. . Akamai provides a global Internet content delivery service that improves Web site speed and reliability and enables richer, more engaging Web site content. Currently, Akamai has deployed 1,475 servers in 24 countries across 55 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool. 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 Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and 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 Registration Statement on Form S-1 and other documents periodically filed with the SEC. |
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