CSTV and Akamai Team to Create Advanced, On Demand Streaming
Platform for College Sports
Notre Dame, Ohio State, Stanford, Duke, Maryland, North
Carolina and Georgia among the colleges to benefit from Akamai's
global streaming platform
NEW YORK & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2004--
Laptop Battery CSTV: College Sports Television (www.collegesports.com), the
fastest growing independent cable network, and Akamai Technologies,
Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the global leader in distributed computing
solutions and services, have entered into an agreement to create an
advanced, on demand streaming platform for the reliable and
high-performance delivery of college sports content. CSTV will
leverage Akamai's industry-leading EdgePlatform(SM) and
EdgeSuite(R) content delivery service to enable the Web's most
extensive coverage, including streaming audio and video, of college
sports.
Akamai will serve as the content and streaming distribution
provider for CollegeSports.com and its network of 150 official
athletic sites for colleges, conferences and athletic associations.
Akamai will provide complete content delivery of
CollegeSports.com's interactive multimedia, including streaming
audio of college games, press conferences, game highlights, College
Sports TV analysis and coaches' shows, as well as streamed
on-demand College Sports TV programming.
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Thinkpad CSTV's use of Akamai's services will result in numerous user
enhancements for fans visiting the CollegeSports.com sites
including high quality streaming, site reliability, and
customization. In addition, CSTV will provide a full suite of tools
and resources enabling schools, conferences and athletic
associations to maximize exposure for their teams and
student-athletes while expanding online revenue-producing
opportunities.
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customized user experiences based on geography (including ZIP
code), college and sports preferences, and bandwidth connection
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Laptop Computer -- Fans visiting www.collegesports.com and the 150 official
athletic sites will experience much faster connections and better
overall site performances as content is distributed closer to each
individual user via Akamai's worldwide network of over 14,000
servers
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Desktop Computer -- Personalized content delivery capabilities will open the
doors to numerous, new one-to-one marketing opportunities for the
schools, conferences and athletic associations, as well as
advertisers to their sites
Notebooks -- Akamai's exclusive "Edge" computing technology will allow for
the development of new applications that bring fans closer than
ever to their favorite teams, and for the enhancement of existing
CollegeSports.com features such as CollegeSports.com's exclusive
"GameTracker" service for real-time game scores, statistics and
play-by-play
Lenovo "Working with Akamai will enable us to greatly enhance the
CollegeSports.com user experience," said Brian Bedol, president and
CEO, CSTV. "We will deploy Akamai's leading-edge technology to
create new applications that bring fans even closer to their
favorite teams. Our agreement with Akamai is consistent with our
goal of aligning with best-of-breed partners to the benefit of fans
and our partner institutions."
Hard Drive "CSTV is a leading online source for college sports that has
also become a significant marketing,
advertising, and revenue-generating
outlet for colleges and athletic associations," said Paul Sagan,
president of Akamai. "Their use of Akamai for content and streaming
delivery is an excellent example of how our on-demand platform can
be used to optimize online business and entertainment. We are
excited to be a part of bringing content to such a loyal user base
- college sports fans."
Travelstar About College Sports TV
Gateway College Sports TV, the first 24-hour college sports network, is
available to more than 20 million
homes nationally on cable and
satellite. The network is available on Time Warner, Adelphia and
Insight cable systems, among others, and is also available on
DirecTV (channel 610). For information on CSTV availability in
particular markets, consumers can log on to
www.collegesports.com or call their cable or satellite
operator.
Laptop Parts CSTV is comprised of two primary business units: College Sports
TV and CollegeSports.com. College Sports TV televises regular
season and championship event coverage of more than 30 men's and
women's college sports from every major collegiate athletic
conference, in addition to nine NCAA Championships. The network
also has a programming and marketing agreement with the U.S.
Olympic Committee.
Software CollegeSports.com, the most-trafficked college sports Web site,
and its network of 150 official athletic sites for top colleges,
universities and athletic associations, are the number one online
source for college sports news, information, scores and
analysis.
Hard Drives CSTV was co-founded by President/CEO Brian Bedol, Chairman
Stephen Greenberg and Executive Vice President Chris Bevilacqua.
Bedol and Greenberg co-founded Classic Sports Network, which they
later sold to ESPN. The network is now ESPN Classic. Bevilacqua is
a former senior executive with Nike Inc., where he headed the
company's successful foray into the college market.
Electronics About Akamai
Canon Akamai(R) is the global leader in 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. Headquartered in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, Akamai serves hundreds of today's most successful
enterprises and
government agencies around the
globe. Akamai is The Business Internet. For more information,
visit www.akamai.com.
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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 to have available sufficient transmission capacity,
a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors
that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K,
quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically
filed with the SEC.
Think Pad Contacts
Repair
CSTV: College Sports Television
Eric Handler, 212-342-8760
ehandler@cstv.com
or
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Jeff Young, 617-444-3913
jyoung@akamai.com
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