AKAMAI UNVEILS EDGESUITE FOR BUSINESS CONTINUITY

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Akamai is a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software 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 13,000 servers within over 1,000 networks in 63 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services to hundreds of companies worldwide. For information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, visit www.akamai.com.

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*(source: Sixth Annual Computer Crime & Security Survey)

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, the dependence on Akamai`s Internet content delivery service and technology products, any unexpected problems in the functioning of EdgeSuite for Business Continuity, lack of widespread customer acceptance of EdgeSuite for Business Continuity, a failure of Akamai`s network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Akamai`s Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.