March 10, 2005

Akamai Technologies announced yesterday that online entertainment company Turbine has selected its Media Delivery solution for distribution of its online assets, which include patches, games, content updates and online promotional streaming media.

"By leveraging the Akamai platform, Turbine can offer its customers a great experience through fast, reliable delivery of the content they need," says Kris Alexander, senior media and entertainment solution manager for Akamai.

"Providing a great online experience is important for ensuring customer satisfaction and growing a customer base. Akamai helps ensure this with a proven platform designed to enable storage and global delivery of games and other media assets online."

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Turbine customers download large and graphic-intensive files that typically require long download times. According to Akamai, Turbine required a scalable and reliable solution to deliver all its content and avoid the frequent failures that are more common with traditional delivery options.

"We saw an opportunity for a respected online entertainment company like Turbine, and Akamai, a leader in the media delivery space, to partner to drive the online game market together," says Mike Hogan, vice president of technology and operations at Turbine Inc. "Akamai is a quality service provider - and it's critical that our content is delivered over a quality distribution platform that helps us reach a global audience."

Source: The WHIR