Top VeriSign, eBay, Digital Island and Akamai Executives Scheduled to Speak at Keynote 2000 Global Internet Performance Conference September 6-8 in San Francisco.

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2000 Global Internet Performance Conference

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 2000

Vendor Fair of over 20 Companies at World's Largest Gathering

Devoted to Improving Web Site Performance

Keynote (Nasdaq:KEYN), The Internet Performance Authority(R), today announced additional details of its 2000 Global Internet Performance Conference(TM), which will be held September 6-8 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

The conference will provide an in-depth look at the performance trends of e-commerce and business-critical Web sites, and at the performance technologies and best practices that leading companies use to provide the highest quality of experience (QoE) for their end-user customers.

Many of the Internet industry's leading luminaries will present and discuss the latest issues and solutions ensuring the best quality of experience for users of e-commerce and business-critical Web sites. Among the scheduled speakers are:

-- Marty Abbott, Vice President of Operations for eBay, leading a

session devoted to the building of high-performance e-commerce

Web sites

-- David Cowan, Managing General Partner of Bessemer Venture

Partners, speaking on a panel regarding 'where the venture

capital community is investing'

-- Richard Rushing, CTO and Co-Founder of VeriSign, discussing

the architecture needed for online security and privacy

-- Paul Saffo, Director of the Institute for the Future,

discussing the future of e-commerce

-- Paul Sagan, President and COO of Akamai, speaking on how

streaming is changing the face of e-commerce

-- Peter Sevcik, President of NetForecast, talking about the

market impact of enhancement technologies, including content

distribution networks

A special session will feature Rob Preston, Editor-in-Chief of Internet Week, interviewing Umang Gupta, Chairman and CEO of Keynote, on e-commerce quality of service issues.

This year's conference consists of three simultaneous forums: a Performance Tactics Track, an Internet Technology Track and a Keynote Track.

The Performance Tactics Track offers tactics and strategies employed by the leading e-commerce companies whose Web sites deliver the highest quality of experience and will feature:

-- Peter Christy, Director and Senior Analyst at Jupiter, who

will deliver a presentation titled 'Where the Internet is

Going'

-- Bo Lasater, Founder and Vice President of MimEcom, who will

present 'Keeping the Store Open: a Study on E-Commerce Site

Management'

-- Alistair Williamson, President and CEO of WebCriteria, who

will present 'Making Sense Out of Web Site Measurement'

-- Martin Marshall, Managing Director at Zona Research, who will

present 'Web Robustness'

-- Michel Susai, President and CEO of NetScaler, who will present

'Advancing Internet Quality of Experience'

-- Gary Schultz, President and Founder of Multi-Media Research

Group, who will present 'Delivering Streaming Quality of

Service'

The Internet Technology Track features expert panel sessions on the latest technology and applications for measuring, managing and enhancing site performance. Topics and speakers include:

-- Speed Versus Feature: Can Cool Be Fast? (John Scharber of

Entera, Turodique Faud of Papermedia, Bob Reveal of Scient and

Carl Wescott of Charles Schwab)

-- Creating a Highly Distributed Web Presence (Dave Farber of

Digital Island and Tom Kee of F5)

-- Where the Front End Meets the Back End-Connecting the

Enterprise to the Internet (Frank Leong of Hewlett-Packard,

Paul Winsberg of Brio Technology and Bruce Lovett of Landmark)

-- What is Performance Management? (Medhi Daoudi of DoubleClick,

Nell Cote of Hudson Williams, Paul Kshemendra of SiteROCK and

Ajay Singh of ProactiveNet)

The Keynote Track will provide information on the latest services and technologies from Keynote to maximize e-commerce site performance and reliability, as well as tutorials on advanced performance analysis. Attendees will receive practical advice from Keynote product and consulting experts in an interactive setting.

"The impressive line-up of industry leaders contributing to the Global Internet Performance Conference is indicative of the mission-critical importance in which this topic is regarded," said Umang Gupta, Chairman and CEO of Keynote. "As the 'Internet Trusted Authority,' Keynote is in a valuable position to be sponsoring this year's event. The breadth of topic discussion and the extraordinary backgrounds of the experts presenting make this year's Global Internet Performance Conference the 'must attend' event of the year for anyone charged with ensuring a positive experience for online customers, whether they're B2B or B2C."

Additional activities at the Global Internet Performance Conference include a welcome reception, an exhibit fair, and a chance to network with colleagues at a reception sponsored by Keynote. The first 300 people who register for the conference will receive tickets to the sold-out San Francisco Giants vs. San Diego Padres baseball game on September 7 at San Francisco's new Pacific Bell Park.

Companies exhibiting at the fair include Akamai (Nasdaq:AKAM), CacheFlow (Nasdaq:CFLO), Computer Management Group, Digital Island (Nasdaq:ISLD), Entera, Global Crossing/Global Center (Nasdaq:GBLX), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP), Hudson Williams, Imperial Technology, InternetWeek Magazine, Landmark (Nasdaq:LDMK), MimEcom, NetScaler, Peregrine (Nasdaq:PRGN), ProactiveNet, Resonate (Nasdaq:RSNT), Solid Data Systems, Think Twice, TimesTen, WebCriteria, and WebSideStory.

The Global Internet Performance Conference will be held September 6-8, 2000 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco. For additional conference information and to register, go to: https://reg2.lke.com/kn0/agenda.html or call 800/340-3010.

Members of the media may register to attend the 2000 Global Internet Performance Conference free of charge by contacting Michelle Mason of Keynote at 650/522-1063 or [e-mail].

About Keynote

Keynote, The Internet Performance Authority(R), is the world's leading provider of e-commerce performance benchmarking, diagnostic, load-testing and consulting services. The company markets Keynote Perspective(TM), Transaction Perspective(TM), Consumer Perspective (TM) and Keynote Red Alert(TM), global real-time services that measure, assure and improve the quality of service of e-commerce Web sites around the world and KeyReadiness(TM), an accurate and realistic pre- and post-deployment Web-site load testing service. Keynote currently measures more than 12,500 URLs using its global infrastructure of more than 750 measurement computers connected to the major Internet backbones from over 120 statistically selected Internet access locations representing 50 metropolitan areas worldwide. Internet performance and availability data are collected at Keynote's sophisticated operations center and are instantly available to customers through any Web browser.

Keynote customers include over 1,350 leading e-commerce Web sites and hosting companies including AdForce (Nasdaq:CMGI), Akamai (Nasdaq:AKAM), Blockbuster (NYSE:BBI), Compaq Computer (NYSE:CPQ), Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO), Dell Computer (Nasdaq:DELL), Digital Island (Nasdaq:ISLD), Digex (Nasdaq:DIGX), DoubleClick (Nasdaq:DCLK), Global Center (Nasdaq:GBLX), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), National Semiconductor (NYSE:NSM), SABRE Holdings (NYSE:TSG), UPS (NYSE:UPS) and WorldCom/UUNET (Nasdaq:WCOM).

Keynote is a member of the internationally known Stanford University Statistics Department's Industrial Affiliates Program and works with Stanford statistics experts within the program to help define its methodology for measuring Web site performance and ensure the accuracy of its data.

For further information about Keynote, visit the Keynote Web site at http://www.keynote.com or contact the company at Keynote Systems, Inc., 2855 Campus Drive, San Mateo, California 94403, telephone [phone], fax [phone], email [e-mail], or call Keynote's public relations hotline at 650/522-1234. To be added to Keynote's press-release distribution list, send an email to [e-mail] and specify your press affiliation.

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