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Mirapoint Appliances Power Temple University's Campus-wide Message Network
University's Email Usage Doubles After Deploying Mirapoint; IT Department Benefits From 5:1 TCO & Management Savings

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 29, 2004 — Adding to its existing portfolio of leading, worldwide education customers, Mirapoint® today announced that Temple University has standardized on Mirapoint's email server and security appliances for campus-wide deployment for the university's nearly 40,000 students, faculty and staff.

Prior to deploying Mirapoint products, Temple worked with a variety of hardware and software vendors to provide messaging services. The solution consisted of multiple servers running software packages including Sendmail, Novell GroupWise and Microsoft Exchange. In order to deal with increasing email volumes and user demands, the university IT staff tried to scale this patchwork set of solutions by purchasing additional hardware and software components. This piece-meal approach resulted in exorbitant integration costs and management headaches for the university's IT department, which dedicated five full-time employees to ensure that the network was running properly. The problem came to a boiling point when students, faculty and staff were no longer able to log on to the system because the mail servers had reached their capacity.

In searching for a new solution, Temple felt that its system needed to provide the flexibility to scale to the demands of the expanding university population, without any additional costs or increased time spent on integration. The university also wanted to find a way to better consolidate all of its users on a more uniform messaging platform that could be tailored to service the distinct needs of its students, faculty and staff. The university considered solutions from Microsoft, Sun, Critical Path and commercial Sendmail, but decided to standardize on Mirapoint products based on Mirapoint's highly scaleable and fully integrated appliance approach, as well as its track record of successful deployments in the education market. With the help of Mirapoint Professional Services, Temple converted more than 37,000 users from the university's old Sendmail servers to the new Mirapoint-powered network in a single weekend. Mirapoint also provided automated tools to Temple's IT staff so they could seamlessly migrate the remaining 2,000 mixed Groupwise users.

'Since Mirapoint solutions were deployed in our network in 2003, email usage has doubled and our help desk staff is now getting calls from students and faculty interested in learning more about the email services. Clearly, the Mirapoint solution has taken hold of our campus and complaints about email outages or spam and virus attacks are no longer an issue," said Timothy O'Rourke, vice president for computer and information services at Temple. 'The new system provides higher performance and increased reliability, while at the same time lowering our total cost of ownership and minimizing management issues. In fact, we've reduced our staff allocated to managing baseline email services from five full-time employees to just one, which now gives the IT department more time to focus on value-added services for the university environment.”

Temple has deployed Mirapoint Message Directors to serve as access proxies and provide email routing and security filtering, including protection against hackers, spam and virus threats. The university also employs Mirapoint Message Servers to host its large user population and provide IMAP, POP, WebMail, desktop email for Outlook clients, as well as group calendaring and address book services.

About Mirapoint Appliances
The Mirapoint Message Server is the industry's only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access and management with Mirapoint's comprehensive, multi-layered Full-Spectrum™ email security technology. The Message Server is designed to support any enterprise, service provider, government or education customer trying to deliver email to a broad base of users that demand anytime, anywhere access to carrier-grade email services.

Designed to complement an existing email server, the Mirapoint Message Director provides multi-layered security protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, as well as provide advanced management of message traffic through policy enforcement tools, content filters, and detailed reporting. For small- to medium-sized businesses or for highly distributed organizations, Mirapoint also offers the RazorGate line of email security appliances that employ the same industrial-strength technology as the Message Director and can be deployed to secure and protect any existing email server.

About Mirapoint
Mirapoint® is a leader in solutions for message networks used by service provider, enterprise, education and government institutions. Customers use Mirapoint solutions, including the new line of RazorGate email security appliances, to build message networks that intelligently and securely route, store, access and manage Internet messages, including email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at http://www.mirapoint.com.

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