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MIRAPOINT ESTABLISHES NEW MILLION-USER MESSAGING PERFORMANCE RECORD BASED ON RECOGNIZED INDUSTRY BENCHMARK

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 7, 2002- Mirapoint announced that its new line of messaging products have established a performance benchmark by supporting one million SPECmail users. This new message-capacity record reinforces Mirapoint's position as the world's performance leader in the Internet messaging industry. This new benchmark was established in a standard telco computer rack configuration, and sustained a volume of 14 million messages per day.

The unique integration of hardware and software is the basis for the Mirapoint system's ability to support multiple millions of subscribers with industry-best uptime and performance, giving it a tremendous price-to-performance advantage over piecemeal solutions.

"It has become common for vendors to make unsubstantiated claims about messaging performance," said Satish Ramachandran, chairman and chief executive officer of Mirapoint. "By using the SPECmail benchmark, we assure customers that our claim of industry-best performance is fair and accurate and that we intend to lead in the area with the greatest impact on customer satisfaction-first-rate performance at a competitive cost."

This new SPECmail2001 benchmark configuration uses Mirapoint's new 4-Series family of products, including the flagship Message Server M4000 that provides an end-to-end infrastructure for secure and reliable message storage and access. The M4000 can be configured as an all-in-one messaging solution or as a component in a multi-tiered system. The other products in the Mirapoint system include the Message Director for message processing, filtering and routing and a Directory Server for user provisioning and authentication.

The new testing result builds on the performance lead Mirapoint established when it was the first to publish performance numbers based on the SPECmail benchmark in January 2001. Last month the company introduced Message Server M4000, which achieved an industry-leading 225,000 SPECMail users.

SPECmail2001, developed by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), is a mail-server benchmark standard designed to measure the throughput and response time of a mail server in a real-world environment. SPECmail2001 models the stress placed on a mail-server system in an ISP consumer environment, simulating e-mail users' actions such as sending mail, checking for new mail and retrieving messages. -more- SPECmail2001 was designed and implemented by, Compaq, Mirapoint, Openwave Systems and Sun Microsystems. Over the past two years, Netscape, Critical Path, SGI, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and the University of Pavia (Italy) also contributed to its development.

About SPEC
SPEC is a non-profit organization that establishes, maintains and endorses standardized benchmarks for the newest generation of high-performance computers. Its membership comprises leading computer hardware and software vendors, universities, and research organizations worldwide. For more information, contact Dianne Rice, SPEC, 6585 Merchant Place, Ste. 100, Warrenton, VA 20187, USA; phone: 540-349-7878; fax: 540-349-5992; e-mail: info@spec.org; web: http://www.spec.org.

About Mirapoint
Founded in 1997, Mirapoint designs and manufactures specialized, dedicated Internet messaging solutions optimized for fast deployment in service provider and enterprise environments worldwide. Mirapoint's cost-effective and modular solutions provide customers with high performance, high reliability, built-in security and easy integration with legacy messaging infrastructure. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information on Mirapoint, call 800-937-8118 or visit its Web site at http://www.mirapoint.com.

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