1. Akamai capabilities overview and it’s impact on Iowa.Gov and selected web pages

2. The Akamai Platform World’s Largest On-Demand Distributed Computing Platform Always On No systemic network failure since inception Always Available 14,000+ servers 1,100+ Networks 70 Countries Always Capable Network averages 35Gbps day Peak 72Gbps 4/15/04 5B hits/day Always Secure Security at the physical, host, network, and software layers Always Evolving Objects, whole sites, streaming, secure content, applications Predictable Performance Scalability On Demand Increased Security

3. Akamai Public Sector Customers Over 80% market share of Content Delivery 1,100+ Customers

4. Akamai Performance and Reliability Impact for State of Iowa

5. Performance/Reliability Testing Methodology  Use of 3 rd party web performance monitoring service by Keynote Systems, Inc.  20+ Keynote “agents” spread around the US downloading exact same Iowa.gov and Iowa Education web content with and without Akamai  Download times and any errors (e.g. connection timeout) are recorded

6. Akamai Performance Impact on Iowa.gov Homepage Without Akamai With Akamai Total Data Points Collected: over 16,000 0.7 sec vs. 2.1 sec (3.0x faster on average) (4.8x faster during peak)

7. Akamai Performance Impact on Iowa.gov (Network Perspective) With Akamai – Green; Without Akamai - Orange

8. Total errors without Akamai – 200 Total errors with Akamai – 16 Error reduction – 92% (Errors include request timeout, page timeout, connection timeout, content error, etc.) Akamai Reliability Impact on Iowa.gov Homepage

9. Akamai Performance Impact on Iowa Education Homepage Without Akamai With Akamai Total Data Points Collected: over 14,000 0.41 sec vs. 1.17 sec (2.9x faster on average) (4.3x faster during peak)

10. Total errors without Akamai – 184 Total errors with Akamai – 12 Error reduction – 93% (Errors include request timeout, page timeout, connection timeout, content error, etc.) Akamai Reliability Impact on Iowa Education Homepage

11. Akamai Performance Impact on Iowa Education (Network Perspective) With Akamai – Green; Without Akamai - Orange

12. Akamai Performance Impact on IowaRoad Conditions.org Without Akamai With Akamai Total Data Points Collected: over 1,000 0.8 sec vs. 5.4 sec (6.8x faster on average)

13. With Akamai – Green; Without Akamai - Orange Akamai Performance Impact on IowaRoad Conditions.org (Network Perspective)

14. Total errors without Akamai – 4 Total errors with Akamai – 1 Error reduction – 75% (Errors include request timeout, page timeout, connection timeout, content error, etc.) Akamai Reliability Impact on IowaRoad Conditions.org

15. Edge Platform Basics End Users Whole Site, Streaming, Forms Akamai Edge Servers Information Delivery: Whole Site Streaming Origin Server Web Server Maintained by Customer for publishing content

16. Availability – Without Akamai Network Providers End Users Peering Points Level 3 AOL AT&T Cable & Wireless Genuity WorldCom SBCSprint UUNET Qwest www.colorado.gov

17. Availability – With Akamai Network Providers End Users Peering Points Akamai Storage Back-up Site Akamai Edge Server Primary Option 1 Option 2 www.colorado.gov

18. The Akamai Proposal One Time FeeMonthly $2,000$1,950 25 month contract for price of 24