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MONTREAL - December 8, 2005 - Fusepoint Managed Services, a leading provider of outsourced infrastructure and application management services, today announced an agreement with Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online, to resell Akamai's full range of business solutions that will significantly speed customer content delivery and business application performance over the Internet.
Fusepoint customers will now be able to benefit from Akamai's content delivery services that enable enterprises to increase the global performance, reliability and scalability of all their Web-based content. In addition, Fusepoint will now be offering Akamai's new application performance services which are designed to deliver significant Internet application performance gains to remote network users.
"We see great synergies between Akamai and Fusepoint's application management services, and we fully expect this new relationship will translate into even greater business successes," said Robert Hughes, executive vice president of Global Sales, Services and Marketing at Akamai. "Fusepoint brings coast-to-coast Canadian market coverage to Akamai, and their consultative sales expertise and approach to delivering true managed services is right in line with how we operate."
"By aligning with Akamai and its innovative approaches to accelerating and maximizing the performance of online businesses, Fusepoint is even better positioned to deliver industry-leading managed services to market," said George Kerns, president and CEO of Fusepoint Managed Services. "Customers such as Tourisme Montreal have become increasingly reliant on the Internet as a means to cost-effectively communicate with a global audience - and as their e-business needs evolve, so does their need for a high-availability content delivery solution."
Business Performance Greatly Improved for Tourisme Montreal As a Fusepoint customer, Tourisme Montreal is a private, non-profit organization comprising 800 members of the tourism industry and partners that share a common objective of promoting Montreal as an incomparable travel destination. A key component of the organization's marketing efforts revolve around its MontrealCam website (www.montrealcam.com) - an eight camera system that allows potential tourists to see Montreal by taking a live, virtual visit. Yet until recently, the MontrealCam was plagued by painfully slow speeds that greatly diminished its effectiveness outside of North America.