Speedera Networks Cash Flow Positive, Doubles Revenue in Fiscal 2003.Business Editors SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2003 Fastest Growing Company in the Content Delivery Network Industry Continues to Thrive as Signs of Economic Recovery Grow Speedera Networks, the emerging leader in global content delivery services See CDN. , today announced that it was cash flow positive for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2003. The company also doubled revenues for the full fiscal year. The company ended the year with strong momentum as sales in June alone rose 12% over the previous month. Speedera laid claim to increased market share as it notched its twelfth quarter in a row of sequential revenue growth since the launch of the company in 2000. Speedera, with more than 200 customers, inked deals with a record number of new customers during the fiscal year, with organizations such as American Eagle Outfitters, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , Fox Broadcasting, Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation. In 1988, Sony Corporation acquired CBS Records, Inc. for $2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name, and Sony renamed the label , the National Hockey League National Hockey League (NHL) Organization of professional North American ice-hockey teams. The league was formed in 1917 by five Canadian teams; the first U.S. team, the Boston Bruins, was added in 1924. It today consists of 30 teams in two conferences and six divisions. , AtomShockwave, and many other well-known media and entertainment companies, Internet retailers, online marketers, high technology firms, and Federal Government agencies. A large number of new customers were previously customers of rival service provider, 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:AKAM AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. (stock abbreviation) AKAM Automated Key Access Machine ). Customers cited Speedera's stellar customer service, greater flexibility, superior patented technology, and lower total cost of service as reasons why they selected Speedera. "We are debt-free, our revenue is growing, our market share continues to expand, and we're profitable. This is an astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, accomplishment under any circumstances, but particularly in the current economic environment," said Ajit Gupta, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Speedera Networks. "While our shareholders and employees are elated with our results, I think the more important point is that our customers are extremely satisfied with the quality, manageability, price/performance, and service level of Speedera's offering. That's why we are profitable and why we will be here for the long haul Long distance. Long haul implies traversing a state or a country. Contrast with short haul. to service their growing Web infrastructure needs." Citing the early signs of renewed tech spending, Gupta said the quality of customers moving to Speedera for its outsourced services is proof that the market is healthy and growing. Moreover, he attributes rising demand for CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. services to more companies opening the spigot for tech spending, so long as it helps reduce their Web infrastructure and operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales . One of the clearest signs of this growth, according to Gupta, is that Speedera's network traffic more than tripled during fiscal 2003. "We foresee continued growth in the industry, particularly with the expansion of service offerings well beyond traditional CDN services, which used to consist of delivering cached graphical objects on Web pages. The CDN industry now includes a plethora of new and enhanced services, such as security, site monitoring, Web analytics, testing tools, and extensions of edge processing," said Gupta. "With rising market share and expanding market opportunities from new services, we look forward to an even better fiscal year ahead in 2004." Speedera Rides Tide of Success as the Emerging Market Leader During fiscal 2003, Speedera managed to do what most technology companies failed to do -- consistently grow its revenue and move quickly towards profitability. Speedera intensified efforts to meet growing customer demand by adding new features and functions to its SpeedSuite family of services. The company continued to cement its technology prowess throughout the year and was granted its second patent in November of 2002, which covers a service-based system for traffic management and content distribution over a worldwide network of computers. In May, the company launched SpeedEye Access Manager, a new role-based security solution that provides Web site administrators with enhanced security capabilities for managing Speedera's services through its SpeedEye management portal. The new service is already being used by organizations with complex site administration needs, such as Intuit, Rediff, and Kino kino the juice of certain plants, some tropical and some Australian eucalypts, used in medicine as an astringent. Digital, as well as resellers and aggregators who must manage multiple customers. In June, Speedera also introduced a new policy-based management service enabling companies to place the hottest, most popular content on servers closer to users so that they can optimize their use of both centralized and edge storage, thus slashing operations costs while improving delivery quality, availability and performance. Speedera also leveraged relationships during the year with such key channel partners as AboveNet (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :MFNXQ.PK) and Internap(R) Network Services Corporation (Nasdaq:INAP (Intelligent Network Application Part) An IN (Intelligent Network) protocol used in a European SS7 network to query databases for a variety of functions not related to call setup and tear down. INAP uses the ASN.1 standard for defining message content. See SS7 and ASN.1. ). Internap, the leading provider of performance-based routing services over the Internet, is now selling and marketing Speedera's Content Delivery Network (CDN) services across all markets in the United States. The two companies have already closed more than 25 customer deals through this relationship.
Fiscal 2003 At-A-Glance
Key Customer Win Announcements: KQED, Satyam (Sify),
Microsoft.
FQ1 2003 Partnerships: Announces streaming media support for
Microsoft Windows Media 9 Series platform.
Financial News: Speedera FIRST pure play CDN to reach
operating profitability.
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Key Customer Win Announcements: American Eagle, Mind &
Media / US National Guard, Hoover's, Handspring, Network
Associates.
Partnerships: TrueSpectra provides core technology for
FQ2 2003 Speedera to offer unique Dynamic Imaging web service.
Awards: Forbes 'Best of the Web' recognition.
Financial News: Secures $6.5M in funding, eliminates
all debt.
Technology: Wins 2nd patent on core technology.
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Key Customer Win Announcements: Fox Broadcasting (American
Idol), Upromise, FDfn.
Partnerships: Internap channel partnership results in
FQ3 2003 flurry of new joint customers.
Financial News: Company celebrates achieving operating
profitability in Q1 - all employees are sent on a
Hawaiian vacation as a reward for meeting this goal.
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Key Customer Win Announcements: NASA, NHL, Times of India,
Bluefly.com, AtomShockwave.
Financial News: Company becomes cash flow positive;
records twelfth consecutive quarter of revenue growth;
doubles revenue for the full year.
Technology: Introduced SpeedEye Access Manager, a new
FQ4 2003 role-based security solution that provides Web site
super-administrators with enhanced security capabilities
for managing Speedera's services through the SpeedEye
management portal. Speedera also introduced a new
policy-based edge management service enabling companies
to optimize the use of centralized and edge storage and
bandwidth for best performance and availability at lowest
total cost.
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Speedera Networks is financially backed by Banc of America Securities, a unit of Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BAC BAC abbr. blood alcohol concentration ), Balanced Growth Fund, Continuum Group, Deutsche Bank AG, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ), Industry Ventures, Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), Palo Alto Investors, and Trinity Ventures. About Speedera Networks Speedera Networks, Inc. is the emerging leader in content delivery services. The company provides global, on-demand services that cost-effectively solve the performance, scalability, availability and security problems of delivering web sites. Speedera's edge delivery network is deployed in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, with connectivity to over 1000 carrier networks. Speedera SpeedSuite services include a comprehensive set of next generation streaming, content delivery, failover, global load balancing, security and management services, all based on a common global traffic management infrastructure and patented technology. Customers include leading organizations such as American Eagle Outfitters, DoubleClick, Fox Broadcasting, Macromedia, Microsoft, NASA, Network Associates, Sony Music Entertainment, Univision. The company's investors include Banc of America Securities LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , Continuum Group Ltd, Deutsche Bank AG, Hewlett-Packard Company, Oracle Corp., Industry Ventures and Trinity Ventures, among others. Speedera Networks is located at 4800 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA, USA 95054-1227. For more information about Speedera, please call +1 408-970-1500, visit http://www.speedera.com or email info@speedera.com. |
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