NaviSite Announces New Agreements With Leading Content Distribution Networks to Extend streamOS--TM-- Platform Services.

Business/Technology Editors

ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2001

Relationships with Madge.web, Speedera Networks and Streaming Media 

Corporation expand international footprint and improve high-quality

content distribution

NaviSite, Inc. (Nasdaq: NAVI) today announced additional relationships that significantly enhance its leading streaming services platform, streamOS(TM), including agreements with Madge.web, Speedera Networks, Inc. and Streaming Media Corporation. Leveraging the growing acceptance of streamOS(TM)and its current relationships with leading Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), these new relationships will provide NaviSite customers with an expanded global footprint, a more robust domestic network and an improved ability to deploy high-quality, high bit-rate streaming content.

Since the launch of streamOS(TM) in October 2000, NaviSite has delivered some of the Internet's biggest events, such as the recent Madonna concert, which drew record setting viewership. By expanding its CDN relationships, NaviSite will provide its customers with high-performance streaming content worldwide and is well positioned to take advantage of the market opportunity for streaming media management, storage and delivery, a market that is expected to reach more than $25 billion by 2004, according to analyst group IDC.

"We are pleased to be working with these leading providers whose specialized services and network attributes allow us to better address the growing demand for high-quality streaming content," said Joel Rosen, president and CEO at NaviSite. "These new relationships are a continued endorsement of streamOS(TM) as a leading content management and delivery platform and single point of contact that enables companies to easily manage and deliver streaming content over multiple content distribution networks to Internet audiences worldwide."

NaviSite's streamOS(TM) is a scalable, cost-effective platform for high-performance streaming content management and delivery, enabling customers to use drag-and-drop functionality to deploy, organize and manage streaming content on their Web sites via a browser-based interface. streamOS(TM) employs a utility service approach which allows customers to leverage the high-performance streaming infrastructure provided by streamOS(TM) CDNs as they need it. streamOS(TM) speeds the deployment of streaming content and events, and makes streaming more cost effective and flexible by allowing customers to pay on a usage basis with instant resource provisioning.

NaviSite Streaming Media has produced more than 2,500 Webcasts for high profile clients and artists such as NFL Films, Madonna with MSN.com, Jennifer Lopez MSN Listening party, *NSYNC, Mariah Carey, Mandi Moore, Stone Temple Pilots, The Goo Goo Dolls, Alanis Morissette, Tori Amos, TLC, BonJovi.com Webcast Live from BonJovi Studios for Microsoft, Warner Brothers Radio Music Awards with Jay Z, Digital Club Festival Webcasts, the Tibetan Freedom Concert Webcasts, Jeff Beck Live from London with Epic Records and the Daytime Emmy Awards.

NaviSite provides a full suite of streaming services, including content creation, in-studio production, signal acquisition, encoding, streaming application integration, hosting and delivery. NaviSite streaming services offer customers fast deployment and built-in high availability to ensure streaming quality and performance.

Madge.web, Speedera Networks, Inc. and SMC Networks join Digital Island, Enron and eVoke Communications as strategic partners of NaviSite's streamOS(TM)content management and delivery platform. For additional information please contact [e-mail].

About NaviSite, Inc.

NaviSite, Inc. is a leading provider of outsourced Web hosting and application services for companies conducting mission-critical business on the Internet. The Company's goal is to help customers focus on their core competencies by outsourcing the management and hosting of mission critical Web sites and applications. NaviSite is a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. with minority investment from Microsoft Corporation.

NaviSite's SiteHarbor(R) solutions provide secure, reliable, co-location and high-performance hosting services, including high-performance Internet access, and high-availability server management solutions through load balancing, clustering, mirroring and storage services. In addition, NaviSite's enhanced management services, beyond basic co-location and hosting, are designed to meet the expanding needs of businesses as their Web sites and Internet applications become more complex and as their needs for outsourcing all aspects of their online businesses intensify. The Company's application services, which include application hosting, management and rental, provide cost-effective access to, as well as rapid deployment and reliable operation of, business-critical applications, including managed services for streaming media.

For more information about NaviSite, please visit www.navisite.com or by phone on the East Coast call 888-298-8222, on the West Coast call 888-929-0401. NaviSite is headquartered at 400 Minuteman Road, Andover, MA 01810.

NaviSite's Streaming Media Division (SMD) is a leading outsource service provider for end-to-end streaming needs. With the expansion from a managed site hosting company to an integrated streaming services provider, NaviSite offers the highest quality production, management, broadcast, and service experience to customers who want to stream programming. The SMD provides the complete infrastructure, from filming the event to delivery over the Internet for live, on-demand and interactive video chat events. NaviSite SMD is located at 4225 Executive Square Suite 700, La Jolla, CA 92037.

About Madge.web

Madge.web is a global provider of rich content applications and managed network services. These services are delivered via the company's Overnet, by-passing the public Internet, to more than 30 countries around the world. Rich content services from Madge.web - architected to handle online video, audio, images and interactive media - include encoding services, virtual private networking, managed hosting, storage, streaming media distribution, marketing services and workflow management. Further information about Madge.web can be accessed on the World Wide Web at www.madgeweb.com.

About Speedera Networks

Speedera Networks, Inc. is a rapidly growing Internet infrastructure company that provides services for accelerating the Internet through superior performance, reliability and scalability. Speedera's Universal Delivery Network (UDN) features a unique set of next generation global load balancing, failover, content delivery and streaming services, all based on a common global traffic management infrastructure. Together, these services ensure fast and reliable access to Internet applications, streaming media and other web content. Speedera Networks is located at 4800 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA. For more information about Speedera, please call 877-901-7794 (toll free in the USA) or 408-970-1500, visit http://www.speedera.com or e-mail [e-mail].

About Streaming Media Corporation

Streaming Media Corporation (SMC), a privately held Delaware corporation headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, operates one of the largest volume Broadband Media Delivery Networks in the world. SMC provides specialized Streaming Media Network Services(TM) to website owners, private label re-sellers, various network partners, and strategically allied accompanies in the US, Canada, Asia, and Europe.

SMC's 20,000 square foot Streaming Origination Center (SOC), located in Denver, Colorado, is the world's largest satellite reception facility dedicated solely to streamed media, with 25 satellite dishes capable of aggregating programming from any domestic, Asian, or European satellite with a North American footprint. All live signals can be encoded simultaneously, in real time, and streamed live to any broadband connected web user worldwide. Additionally, the SOC is designed to digitally process and encode previously taped programming, utilizing the latest broadcast grade video equipment, and then store it for on-demand streaming delivery via SMC's distributed serving network. For more information please call 866-256-1203 (toll free), visit www.smc.net or email [e-mail].

This release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future events, and these statements are subject to important factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release address a variety of subjects including, for example, the expected benefits to be derived from and functionality of the NaviSite's new streamOS(TM) offerings, the expected functionality of NaviSite's products and technologies, any difficulties experienced integrating streamOS(TM) with NaviSite technologies and/or with those of other service providers, CDNs and equipment suppliers, any failure of streamOS(TM) to function as designed, increased competition and technological changes in the markets in which NaviSite competes and any failure of systems or internal infrastructure. For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the filings made by each of NaviSite and CMGI with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and the most recently filed annual reports on Form 10-K of each of NaviSite and CMGI for the most recently ended quarter and fiscal year for each company.