CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug 20, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) --

Over 75 Companies Have Selected Akamai EdgeSuite(SM) as a Key Part of Their Web Operations

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leading provider of distributed application and content delivery services, today announced that it has reached a significant milestone in EdgeSuite customer adoption. As of August 15th:

    --  Akamai has more than 75 EdgeSuite customers under recurring
        contract
    --  As previously announced, leading enterprise businesses
        leveraging Akamai's EdgeSuite service include BestBuy.com,
        Inc., CCBN, L90, Monster.com, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
        Corporation, Six Flags, Inc., and Victoria's Secret

"Today's news demonstrates that EdgeSuite penetration is accelerating," said George Conrades, chairman and CEO of Akamai. "We are starting to experience significant growth in customer adoption for our EdgeSuite service from an enterprise market faced with the challenge of needing to integrate their computing infrastructures with Internet technologies."

Akamai EdgeSuite enables the assembly, presentation and delivery of an organization's data and applications via Akamai's global network of over 11,600 servers deployed close to end users at the Internet's "edge." EdgeSuite reduces the costs and complexities associated with a business' centralized web serving infrastructure by distributing, managing, storing, processing, and delivering data and applications across IP networks.

Enterprise customers are adopting EdgeSuite for a variety of reasons and are realizing significant, tangible benefits. EdgeSuite enables businesses to:

    --  offload all of their Web traffic to Akamai's global network
        without a single change to their existing infrastructure.
    --  enable the delivery of new applications and functionality that
        can't be realized with centralized infrastructure solutions.
        Akamai's support for Edge Side Includes (ESI) and new
        technologies like XSLT give content providers a critical
        competitive advantage to generate new revenue and accelerate
        the time-to-market of their e-business initiatives.
    --  enhance their customer-facing Web experience through the
        high-performance delivery of all components of a user's
        interaction with a Web site (including static and dynamic
        content, streaming media and application delivery).
    --  benefit from 100% uptime through EdgeSuite's ability to
        deliver default content in the event the source version of the
        Web site is unavailable.
    --  leverage Akamai's geo-location and bandwidth characterization
        capabilities to build Web pages based on geographic origin,
        connection speed, browser type or a host of other information.
    About Akamai

Akamai is the leading provider of distributed application and content delivery services. These services enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 11,600 servers within over 820 networks in 62 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services to companies worldwide. For information on Delivering a Better Internet(SM), visit www.akamai.com.

Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act

The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. 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, general economic conditions, any material, unexpected increases in Akamai's use of funds, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, lack of market acceptance of new services, including EdgeSuite, a failure by us to successfully enter into any license, technology development or other technology partnership agreement within the time periods expected by us or at all, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.

CONTACT:          Akamai 
                  Jeff Young
                  Media Relations                  
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                  Steven J. Wolfe       
                  Investor Relations                                     
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                  swolfe@akamai.com