Readers Choose Speedera as Best CDN and Up-and-Coming Streaming Company to Watch 2002 SIIA CODIE Award SIIA Recognizes Speedera's SpeedSuite as the Best Internet Facilitation Service UPSIDE Magazine's Hot 100 (2002) Aberdeen's Top 10 Streaming Implementations of 2001 Philanthropy In 2003, CEO Ajit Gupta established a "Giving Back" philanthropy program for Speedera that provided free Internet infrastructure services to not-for-profit organizations, including Unicef.org, Goodwill Industries International, Autism.org, and the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. In response to the deadly Christmas tsunami of 2004 in the Indian Ocean, Speedera assisted UNICEF and other relief and recovery organizations by allocating a percentage of its infrastructure at no cost to ensure the expansion and availability of their websites to accept contributions and help victims and other families communicate with each other. It also provided pro bono services to a number of other organizations working towards a worthy cause. References 9 ^ "Speedera Networks Again Rated One of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in Silicon Valley" Hostbyte.com 2004-10-15 10 ^ "Staff Motivation? Take Them to Hawaii" Rediff 2005-06-04 11 ^ "All Work...and More Play" The Hindu Business Line 2005-06-13 12 ^ "Now Sales Being Outsourced to India" Rediff 2004-09-11 Internet technology companies of the United States Privately held companies based in California Computer companies established in 1999 2005 mergers and acquisitions 1999 establishments in California