Akamai Delivers for MSNBC.com's Evolutionary Broadband News Destination.Business/Technology/News Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2001 MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company .com's new highspeed.msnbc.com site employs Akamai's services for delivery of streaming and interactive media to broadband users 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. , Inc. (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 ), the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP (Content Delivery Service Provider) A global network that provides faster delivery of Web pages over the Internet. Using servers stationed around the world with duplicate content, the server closest to the user's request is the one that responds. ), today announced that it has expanded its relationship with MSNBC.com, the leader in online news and programming for interactive television, to provide content and streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. delivery services for MSNBC.com's www.highspeed.MSNBC.com site, an interactive news destination designed specifically for highspeed Internet access users. Akamai's services will help MSNBC.com support broadband end-user demand for rich-media content with enhanced speed, quality and reliability. Akamai's FreeFlow(SM) Service and FreeFlow(SM) Streaming Service are currently in use on the MSNBC.com news site and deliver the site's rich content and streaming media, including live and on-demand headline news. Akamai's services, including access to its distributed, scalable content delivery network, proved to be a valuable investment for MSNBC.com on Election Day, when they optimized the site's performance as it received record-breaking traffic from millions of end users, and thereafter. With the launch of MSNBC.com's highspeed news site, it recognized Akamai's services as essential to providing its rapidly growing broadband audience with the best possible web experience. "Akamai is a key enabler to making our future in broadband a viable business both in terms of its industry-leading technology and its outsourced model that allows us to greatly reduce our infrastructure costs," said Steve White, chief technology officer, MSNBC.com. "With Akamai's content delivery expertise, MSNBC.com is able to bring broadband-intensive news to the next-generation Internet audience." Introduced today, MSNBC.com's highspeed.MSNBC.com site provides access to a wide variety of top news stories complemented with over 60 on-demand video segments daily from NBC News, MSNBC Cable, CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. and NBC Sports. With Akamai's FreeFlow and FreeFlow Streaming services employed, highspeed.MSNBC.com's interplay of live and on-demand video and audio and rich-media news will be delivered to broadband users at rates of 100Kbps with improved quality and reliability. "MSNBC.com has become a top source for breaking news and information for narrowband audiences," said Paul Sagan, president, Akamai. "With its powerful combination of video, audio, text and interactive features, MSNBC.com's highspeed site is poised to be one of the web's leading broadband media destinations. We are pleased to support MSNBC.com in its exciting efforts to promote the growth of rich-media content." About MSNBC.com MSNBC.com is the number one news site based on audience data tracked by the Internet measurement service Media Metrix(TM). As the leader in breaking news and original journalism on the Internet, MSNBC.com additionally delivers the best of NBC News, MSNBC Cable, CNBC and NBC Sports. MSNBC.com provides expanded content via partnerships with The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). Money Central(TM), The Sporting News, Expedia(TM), E! Online, Pencil News, FEED magazine, Science magazine, inc.com, Space.com, Inside.com, The Motley Fool, Internet Broadcasting Systems and Pioneer Newspapers. MSNBC.com's innovative distribution includes delivery of broadband content for Qwest, Road Runner, Excite@Home and on highspeed.msnbc.com and wireless content delivery for MSN Mobile, i3 Mobile and Omnisky. In addition, MSNBC.com programs interactive content for MSNBC Cable and NBC News. MSNBC is a 24-hour cable and Internet joint venture of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) and NBC News (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : GE.) About Akamai Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider, serving over 2,800 customers, including more than 1,325 recurring customers under contract worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 8,000 servers in 54 countries directly connected within more than 460 different telecommunications networks. Akamai Statement 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 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 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 Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and other documents periodically filed with the SEC. |
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