CNN.com Selects Akamai for Online Coverage of Election Day 2004

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Friday, November 12, 2004; 03:43 PM

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (www.akamai.com) announced that its services were used to help enable millions of users to stay informed throughout CNN's online coverage of Election Day 2004. CNN.com used Akamai's content delivery services to serve up-to-the-minute election coverage to a record-breaking audience.

"CNN is recognized as a worldwide leader in news and information delivery," said Paul Sagan, president of Akamai. "Having worked closely with CNN.com on many major media events in the past, we're very excited to see that this election created record demand for up-to-the-minute online results."

During the 24-hour period beginning at 4 p.m. EST on November 2nd, CNN.com delivered more than 670 million page views, resulting in a single-day record for CNN.com's coverage of a Presidential election.

Akamai's EdgeSuiteŽ service and scalable platform helped CNN.com provide a fast and reliable user experience to more than 8.9 million visitors who accessed the news site during Tuesday, November 2, 2004 and Wednesday, November 3, 2004.

AkamaiŽ is a global leader of distributed computing solutions and services, making the Internet predictable, scalable, and secure for conducting profitable e-business.

The Akamai on-demand platform enables customers to easily extend their Web operations - with full control - anywhere, anytime, without the cost of building out infrastructure.