Limelight Networks Announces Extended Relationship With Facebook

TEMPE, AZ – January 31, 2006 – Limelight Networks today announced that Facebook, the leading online directory connecting people through social networks at schools, has extended its CDN relationship with Limelight. Facebook will continue to utilize Limelight’s advanced network for distributed Internet delivery of user content from its highly trafficked and fast-growing member directory.

“Social networking sites have become a national phenomena and Facebook is the premier community and destination for college students to connect online,” said Erik Gabler, SVP Business Development, Limelight Networks. “Supporting a massive online audience that voraciously consumes and develops content is exactly what Limelight Network’s content delivery network was designed to deliver. We’re pleased to have a relationship with them to help serve their constantly growing audience.”

Limelight Networks is the highest performance content delivery network for digital media, with massively scalable delivery solutions uniquely tailored to those doing distributed on-demand and live delivery of rich media content to broadband and mobile users. Limelight leads the industry in “Delivering the Digital Lifestyle(tm)”.

Facebook is an online directory connecting people through social networks at schools. Facebook was founded by Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004 as a way to meet people at school. Facebook is now among the Top 10 most trafficked sites on the Internet with over 6.4 million registered users accessed at 2,200 colleges and over 22,000 high schools. Facebook is a privately held company and is headquartered in Palo Alto.