00:00:00 - 26 February 2004

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Santa Clara, Calif. and Brussels, Belgium — Feb. 26, 2004 — Speedera Networks Inc., a leading global provider of on-demand distributed application and content delivery services, today announced that the European Space Agency has again chosen Speedera’s SpeedSuite family of services to deliver the www.esa.int Web portal – this time for a longer-term deal. ESA also selected Capcave, an Internet systems integrator based in the Netherlands, to assist with managing site content. Speedera is using its globally distributed delivery network to provide whole site content delivery, site monitoring, failover, and streaming media services. The immediate need for these services is today’s expected blast-off of ESA’s unprecedented mission of cometary exploration, Rosetta, which is expected to trigger a substantial spike in traffic to the space agency’s Web portal.

“The Rosetta mission is a unique expedition designed to help us unravel the secrets of a mysterious ‘mini’ ice world – a comet,” said Fulvio Drigani, ESA’s portal manager. “Based on the previous successful experience of Speedera enabling ESA to manage large surges in our Web traffic during last December’s Mars Express probe event, we elected to expand our relationship with them. With more missions taking off, we expect traffic to our Web portal to continue to fly ever higher.”

During a circuitous ten-year trek across the Solar System, Rosetta will cross the asteroid belt and travel into deep space, more than five times Earth’s distance from the Sun. Its destination will be a periodic comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

The Rosetta orbiter will rendezvous with 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and remain in close proximity to the icy nucleus as it plunges towards the warmer inner reaches of the solar system. At the same time, a small lander will be released onto the surface of this mysterious cosmic iceberg.

To ensure that high-quality multimedia content will be successfully served to ESA’s site visitors, the space agency has partnered with Capcave and with Speedera to provide on-demand global delivery so that anyone on Earth can access the portal without timeouts, delays or interruptions. Speedera’s distributed delivery network efficiently delivers dynamic and static Web content and applications over the Internet by using servers located on multiple networks worldwide, and by intelligently routing end-user’s requests to the optimal server.

“We chose Speedera as a strategic partner to help deliver the Internet dimension of ESA’s missions because of its proven track record in delivering large scale global events and high traffic sites,” said Tim Koeleman, Founder and Studio Director for Capcave. “Speedera provides the network, storage and computing services to enhance the multimedia ESA experience by disseminating graphics-rich and streaming media-intensive content to viewers around the world.”

Speedera is in the business of providing capacity on demand for distributed application hosting and for content delivery, on a massive scale. The company handles high volume media sites with rich graphics and streaming media, such as those of Fox Broadcasting, Sony Music, Univision, Comcast, the National Hockey League, NASA and many others. As well, the company provides services to organizations in sectors such as high technology, online marketing, Internet retail and the Federal Government.

“All eyes are trained on the heavens these days, and we are pleased to be a small part of ESA’s awe-inspiring missions,” said Ajit Gupta, president and CEO of Speedera Networks. “Millions of people will be jumping onto the Internet and finding the wonders of space just a mouse click away – and with virtually instant access. This is another significant milestone for the Internet, and for organizations that take advantage of globally distributed on demand computing services to deliver rich Web content to users around the world.”

About Speedera Networks
Speedera Networks, Inc. is a leading global provider of distributed application and content delivery services. The company’s SpeedSuite family of services provides on-demand services that cost-effectively solve the performance, scalability, availability and security problems of delivering web sites. Speedera’s edge delivery network is deployed in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, with connectivity to over 1000 carrier networks, controlled by a patented global traffic management system. Customers include leading organizations such as DoubleClick, Fox Broadcasting, Macromedia, NASA, Network Associates, and Univision. The company’s channel partners include Softbank Broadmedia/Club iT, AboveNet, and Inflow. For more information about Speedera, please call +1 408-970-1528, visit www.speedera.com or email info@speedera.com.

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