Akamai and Frontier Announce Strategic Relationship to Speed Delivery of Web Content.Frontier GlobalCenter and Akamai deliver first complete family of Web distribution services from Media Distribution Centers to user access points CAMBRIDGE, Mass./SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 1999-- 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. , which operates a global Internet content delivery service that speeds up Web performance, and Frontier GlobalCenter, the data and Internet arm of Frontier Communications, announced today that they have entered into a strategic relationship that delivers the industry's first complete Web distribution solution. Frontier GlobalCenter will implement Akamai's FreeFlow(SM) Internet content delivery service and make it available to its industry leading content hosting customers. Akamai is also taking advantage of Frontier's infrastructure that combines the company's Media Distribution Centers (MDC (1) (Mobile Daughter Card) See riser card. (2) See Meta Data Coalition. ) and the Frontier Optronics Optronics, or optoelectronics in its less abbreviated form, is the science and technology making use of optics and electronics. It is sometimes synonymous with photonics, however the latter has a lesser emphasis on electronics. Network, a 20,000 route mile, wholly owned fiber optic network. Akamai hosts FreeFlow servers at three of Frontier GlobalCenter's major MDCs domestically and internationally. Akamai's service speeds up Web site performance and improves reliability by delivering Internet content from Akamai servers around the globe, located close to Internet end users. Frontier GlobalCenter is entering into a relationship to offer Akamai's Internet content delivery service to its customers as a complement to the source data management services it currently provides. As a result, Frontier GlobalCenter will be able to deliver a complete solution for mission-critical Web content distribution for its customers. Akamai's network today spans the globe with over 900 servers deployed on 25 different service providers' networks. Through its reseller relationship with Akamai, Frontier will be able to offer a set price for coverage worldwide - without geographic surcharges. "Akamai is excited to welcome Frontier GlobalCenter as the first partner to provide of our Internet content delivery service," said Earl Galleher, vice president of sales and distribution for Akamai. "Frontier GlobalCenter manages many of today's highly-trafficked Web sites, including Yahoo!, eToys, Red Hat and ZDNet. Our FreeFlow Internet content delivery service complements Frontier GlobalCenter's core product offering by creating a one-stop-shop for Frontier's customers to receive the best in source data management, together with Akamai's global Internet content delivery service across Internet networks." "The Frontier GlobalCenter infrastructure, coupled with Akamai's FreeFlow service, delivers the first complete and fastest Web content distribution service - from source data to the edge of the network," said Paul Santinelli, vice president, technology and applications for Frontier GlobalCenter. "The goal at Frontier GlobalCenter has been to increase Web access performance through our infrastructure. We realize our customers' sites are visited by users subscribed to every service provider out there; Akamai enables us to take our content and embed it deeper in other networks where end-users work, live and play." About Frontier GlobalCenter Frontier GlobalCenter, a unit of Frontier Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : FRO fro adv. Away; back: moving to and fro. prep. Scots From. [Middle English, probably from Old Norse fr ), is a leading international Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) applications and communications services provider. Frontier recently agreed to merge with Global Crossing Ltd. (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 :GBLX GBLX Global Crossing Ltd. (stock symbol) ). The combined company will own and operate the first seamless global IP network with more than 88,100 ultra-high bandwidth route miles The number of miles that are spanned by a telecommunications network. It does not include combined wire mileage due to multiple wires or fibers within a single cable or by overlapping segments, just the total geographic distance between cities or other terminal points. connecting 170 major cities in 24 countries. For more information, visit the Frontier Web site at www.frontiercorp.com or Frontier GlobalCenter at www.globalcenter.net. 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. . Akamai provides a global Internet content delivery service that improves Web site speed and reliability and protects against Web site crashes due to demand overloads. Currently, Akamai has 900 servers deployed in 15 countries across 25 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. , providing Akamai's customers with guaranteed global Internet content delivery service. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool. You can receive a faxed copy of any Frontier Communications press release dating back to July 1998, free of charge, 24 hours a day by calling 1-800-448-8533. An automated system will provide you with instructions. |
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