AKAMAI AND DIGITAL WAVE FORGE ALLIANCE TO ENHANCE WEB PERFORMANCE FOR TAIWANESE BUSINESSES
Contacts:
Joe Chuang
Digital Wave, Inc.
+ (8862) 2370 - 0563
jchuang@digitalwavenet.com
--or--
Felicia Spagnoli
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
(617) 444 - 2525
spagnoli@akamai.com
Digital Wave to offer Akamai`s entire suite of content delivery services to complement customer offerings
Taipei, Taiwan and Cambridge, MA - June 1, 2001 - Digital Wave, Inc., an international multi-media company based in Taiwan, and Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leading provider of distributed application and content delivery services, today announced an agreement through which Digital Wave will offer Akamai`s comprehensive suite of Internet content delivery services to enhance Web performance for Taiwan-based businesses.
Akamai`s Internet content and application delivery services enhance Web performance and reliability by delivering all forms of content from Akamai`s globally distributed network of servers at the Internet`s edge. As more Taiwan-based businesses look to outsource critical components of their Internet infrastructure for cost savings, Akamai`s services will enable Digital Wave customers to cost-efficiently improve Web performance while extending their worldwide reach via Akamai`s network. Currently, there are over six million Internet users in Taiwan.
"We are tremendously excited about the opportunities Akamai brings into Taiwan, and we`re pleased to offer the benefits of Akamai`s comprehensive suite of services to our customers," stated Joshua Chang, CEO, Digital Wave. "We look forward to collaborating with Akamai to demonstrate the advantages of highly-reliable content delivery for Taiwanese businesses."
"Digital Wave`s solutions together with Akamai`s integrated services provide mutual customers with unmatched availability and performance for their business-critical Web applications," said Chris Turner, vice president, worldwide channel distribution, Akamai. "Through our relationship with Digital Wave, we`ll be able to deliver a wide breadth of offerings in accordance with the growing Taiwan market."
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading provider of distributed application and content delivery services, enabling companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure. Akamai`s intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 9,700 servers within 650 networks in more than 56 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services to more than 1,400 companies worldwide.
About Digital Wave
Based in Taipei, Taiwan, Digital Wave, Inc. (www.digitalwavenet.com) is an international multi-media provider. Its main business scope includes distribution of various mandarin programs, satellite rental, media content delivery, signal acquisition and encoding services.
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, the dependence on Akamai`s Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company`s Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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