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Italian Bike Race, Il Giro d'Italia, Streamed Live on the iPhone Across the Akamai HD Network
Cycling enthusiasts can view the event live on their iPhone as well as online via Akamai HD for Adobe Flash from May 8th - 30th
MILAN, May 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:
AKAM)
, the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise
applications online, today announced that the 93rd edition of Il Giro
d'Italia - a leading cycle race in Italy and one of the most popular in
the world - is being streamed globally, live across the Akamai HD
Network. The Akamai HD Network will enable viewers to follow Il Giro
d'Italia live to their iPhone as well as on the La Gazzetta dello Sport
website, the leading daily sport newspaper in Italy and organizer of "Il
Giro d'Italia".
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In order to offer race fans the chance to view Il Giro d'Italia from
anywhere in the world while offering a top quality online experience
with no waiting times or interruptions, La Gazzetta dello Sport is
relying on the Akamai HD Network to support its live streaming. . The
race will be broadcasted live daily from approximately 8 am - 11 am
Eastern Standard Time. The Akamai HD Network is designed to support
live high quality video delivery to the iPhone through adaptive bitrate
streaming - a feature that automatically adapts to a user's fluctuating
Internet conditions to enable smooth playback and improved viewing
experiences. As such, all of the 120,000 iPhone users who have already
downloaded the GazzettadelloSport.it application will have access to the
live event on the go.
"Il Giro d'Italia is a prestigious and very popular sporting event.
We are delighted that Akamai will contribute to offer sports enthusiasts
the very first live streaming experience of this race on the iPhone,"
commented Alex Gibbons, Akamai Director of Digital Media, Europe. "With
Akamai's technology, users will be able to experience all the drama of
this event in the palm of their hand. Akamai has successfully delivered
hundreds of events across its HD Network with great availability,
performance and quality."
Akamai's HD Network was developed with the goal of delivering the
highest quality experience at broadcast audience scale(1) across the
industry's most popular devices, platforms and runtimes, and enabling
large-scale broadcasters and film distributors to increase audience
engagement and expand revenues through higher quality video playback and
interactivity. Akamai's HD Network was further designed to allow
content owners and publishers to deliver live and on-demand content
while leveraging an infrastructure of tens of thousands of HTTP servers
deployed globally in ISP servers. For further information about Akamai
HD Network: www.akamai.com/hdnetwork
The Akamai Difference
Akamai® provides market-leading managed services for powering video,
dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having
pioneered the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai's services
have been adopted by the world's most recognized brands across diverse
industries. The alternative to centralized Web infrastructure, Akamai's
global network of tens of thousands of distributed servers provides the
scale, reliability, insight and performance for businesses to succeed
online. Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to
inform, entertain, advertise, interact, and collaborate. To experience
The Akamai Difference, visit www.akamai.com.
(1) Defined as the average Nielsen audience
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
effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network
by hackers or others, failure of our services to operate as expected,
unexpected termination of Akamai's relationship with La Gazzetta dello
Sport, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors
that are discussed in Akamai's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly
reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the
SEC.
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Jennifer Donovan Noelle Faris
Media Relations Investor Relations
650-627-5395 617-444-4676
jdonovan@akamai.com nfaris@akamai.com
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Source: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
CONTACT: Jennifer Donovan, Media Relations, +1-650-627-5395,
jdonovan@akamai.com,
or Noelle Faris, Investor Relations, +1-617-444-4676,
nfaris@akamai.com,
both of Akamai Technologies, Inc.
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