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Akamai Sets Records for Total Web Content Delivered and Simultaneous Video Streams Served

Akamai delivers record of more than 400,000 simultaneous video streams; Online interest in NCAA Division I college basketball among the events that push Web traffic on Akamai network to new highs

CAMBRIDGE, MA March 20, 2006 Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online, announced today that its delivery platform served record demand last week for simultaneous video streaming, total content delivered, and simultaneous Internet requests. Spurred by overwhelming interest in online coverage of the NCAA Division I college basketball tournament last Thursday and Friday, the Akamai EdgePlatformTM demonstrated unprecedented service levels and capabilities.
Total traffic on the Akamai network last week peaked for the first time at a rate of more than 200 gigabits per second. On Thursday, Akamai served Web content for more than 102 billion Internet requests, with a peak rate of 2,311,821 requests per second a rate roughly equivalent to serving content to the entire population of Chicago simultaneously.

Company Online Stock Trading "This is incredibly significant because it means we are witnessing the maturity of the Internet as the premiere medium for the consumption of time-sensitive content, including sports, news and music programming, delivered to broadband-connected users worldwide," said Paul Sagan, Akamai's President and CEO. "Akamai's broadly distributed on-demand capabilities are enabling the emergence of entire new online business models for information, entertainment, advertising and commerce."

Online Trading Stock And For the first time, last Thursday Akamai served more than 400,000 simultaneous video streams in Microsoft's Windows Media Format. Akamai served similar demand again on Friday.

- provides a special "anamorphic video" signal that, when processed by a widescreen television set, fills the entire screen and delivers optimum picture quality WMA (Windows Media Audio) A proprietary streaming audio format typically used to download and play files or to stream contents WMV (Windows Media Video) video formats typically used to download and play files or to stream contents.

Stock Investing Course "The Internet is the new platform for record-setting media events and content delivery, and Akamai and Microsoft are together delivering the performance the market demands," said Kevin Unangst, director of Windows Digital Media at Microsoft Corporation. "The high quality, unmatched scalability, and broad reach of Windows Media, combined with Akamai's unparalleled capabilities, make it a world-class choice for the most demanding delivery scenarios."

Stock System Trading Akamai's Net Usage Index for News (www.akamai.com/netusageindex) also recorded new traffic peaks late last week. Akamai's index is the world's first and only daily Web traffic report with information on aggregate total visitors per minute to over 100 news portal sites.

No web story would be complete without the mention of rich media, and the Temple web environment is no exception. An initiative is underway to create more Flash intensive websites using Adobe Flash Professional. An increasing number of rich media assets are permeating the university's web pages, due to the ease in which everyday Contribute users can simply drag and drop Flash files and Flash video onto web pages. At Temple, Flash Media Server is deployed in a clustered server environment to deliver streaming Flash video content on the web.

Stock Investing Game The index indicated that at approximately 3:00 pm EST on Thursday, an all-time high of nearly 5.5 million visitors per minute were looking for news and information content online. The index registered more than 4.5 million visitors per minute being served at approximately 2:30 PM EST on Friday.

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Online Stock Trading Canada Akamai is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online. More than 1,900 organizations have formed trusted relationships with Akamai, improving their revenue and reducing costs by maximizing the performance of their online businesses. Leveraging the Akamai EdgePlatformTM, these organizations gain business advantage today, and have the foundation for the emerging Web solutions of tomorrow. Akamai is "The Trusted Choice for Online Business." For more information, visit www.akamai.com.

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