Akamai Enables High-Quality Delivery of New Line Cinemas' "The Lord of the Rings" Preview Footage for Record Internet Audience.Business & Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2000 www.lordoftherings.net attracts record traffic; 6.6 million downloads in first week 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 provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. , and applications, today announced that New Line Cinemas' release of "The Lord of the Rings" Internet movie 'behind-the-scenes' footage has become one of the Internet's largest entertainment events ever. As measured by Akamai's advanced real-time Internet monitoring Analyzing traffic on the Internet. Monitoring is performed to determine packet volume for network configuration as well as to find out how employees are spending their time on the Internet. This is the first step in determining whether or not filtering should be added to the network. tools, "The Lord of the Rings" preview footage achieved a historic one-week total of more than 6.6 million downloads since becoming available on Friday, April 7. Available exclusively in Apple's QuickTime format, the delivery of the preview was handled by Akamai's revolutionary FreeFlow SM Streaming service to dramatically improve the reliability and quality of the downloadable content. During the preview's first week of availability, Akamai's global network served a total of 8.45 terabytes of data. At the peak, Akamai's network supported 450 Megabits of data per second, serving every Web user with high quality and reliable delivery of the rich and engaging movie footage. "Without Akamai's over 2,700 servers, we would not have been able to satisfy the overwhelming demand to see this behind-the-scenes footage of The Lord of the Rings," said Joe Nimziki, President of New Line Marketing. "We are grateful that Akamai marshaled the technical resources necessary to help us pull off this record-breaking marketing coup." "Together with Apple, we would like to congratulate New Line Cinemas on their very successful online preview of 'The Lord of the Rings,'" said Dan Fraisl, vice president and general manager of streaming, Akamai. "Recognized as one of the largest downloads of content to date, this movie footage again showcases the global scalability of Akamai's network and its ability to enable high-quality delivery of rich media to the Web's largest audiences." "QuickTime is the standard 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 on the Internet," said Philip Schiller Apple's vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "With the success of the new 'Lord of the Rings' preview footage, the QuickTime Movie Trailer site continues to set Internet attendance records." The QuickTime 4 player is available as a free download for Macintosh and Windows users from www.apple.com/quicktime. To view the Lord of the Rings movie preview, users simply need to point their browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used to www.apple.com/trailers or www.lordoftherings.net. Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service, delivered from the Akamai EdgeAdvantage(TM) platform, exceeds user expectations by delivering high-quality and reliable streaming media content including live events, continuous broadcasts and on-demand media. Akamai's EdgeAdvantage technology delivers content by intelligently routing requests across its distributed global network to the optimal server for each site visitor. EdgeAdvantage evaluates real-time Internet conditions, thus eliminating problems caused by server overloads and network bottlenecks. "The Lord of the Rings" movie preview can be seen at www.lordoftherings.net. One of the most celebrated novels of the 20th Century, The Lord of the Rings is a groundbreaking epic of good versus evil, extraordinary heroes, wondrous creatures and dark armies of terror. Generations of more than 50 million people around the globe, in 25 different languages have grown up with this epic history. The legend has inspired an entire genre of movies, fiction, and has influenced some of the greatest artists of our time. It has made dreamers out of children and adults, and has recently been named the number one most popular book of the century. But it has never been told in its entirety on the screen. New Line anticipates releasing the first installment of the trilogy A company founded in 1979 by Gene Amdahl to commercialize wafer scale integration and build supercomputers. It raised a quarter of a billion dollars, the largest startup funding in history, but could not create its 2.5" superchip. of movies for The Lord of the Rings Holiday 2001. About New Line Cinema Founded in 1967, New Line Cinema is the entertainment industry's leading independent producer and distributor of theatrical motion pictures. New Line licenses its films to ancillary markets including cable and broadcast television as well as to international venues. The company, which is a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., operates several divisions including in-house theatrical distribution, marketing, home video, television, acquisitions, production, licensing and merchandising units. About Akamai Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. and has offices in San Mateo San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. and Cupertino, California, and Europe. Akamai is the leading provider of distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery services, serving over 550 of the Web's most popular properties including over 125 leading e-commerce companies. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 2,750 servers in over 45 countries directly connected to more than 150 different telecommunications networks A telecommunications network is a of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes. . 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 forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. 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. 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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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