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FASTNET Corporation Selects Mirapoint’s IP Messaging Server as Core of Unified Messaging Services
Business Data Services Provider Standardizes on Mirapoint’s M1000 For Unified Message Access, Storage and Delivery

CUPERTINO, CA - June 7, 1999 - Mirapoint, Inc., a pioneering developer of standards-based IP messaging solutions, today announced that FASTNET, one of the country's first regional Internet business data services providers, has selected Mirapoint's award-winning M1000 as the core message access, store and forward solution for its evolving unified messaging infrastructure. FASTNET is currently standardizing on Mirapoint’s IP messaging server to deliver co-location and customer premise equipment email outsourcing services.

The M1000 is an IP messaging server appliance that provides highly reliable Internet e-mail infrastructure services, including inbound and outbound e-mail traffic, e-mail delivery, RAID-protected storage and e-mail client access functions. There are no artifically imposed limits to the total number of users that can be supported by a single M1000 system.

FASTNET is currently deploying the M1000 to deliver outsourced co-location email services which enable customers to own and administer dedicated Mirapoint messaging servers co-located at FASTNET’s data center. The M1000 is also delivering managed customer premise equipment (CPE) email outsourcing services that enable customers to house the Mirapoint server appliance at their own facility for security and accessibility purposes. These appliances can be remotely and securely managed and backed up over the Internet on shared systems at FASTNET’s data center.

In addition to deploying the Mirapoint server appliance for co-location and CPE email outsourcing, FASTNET is also leveraging the system to deliver anti-spam filtering and content filtering services to a rapidly growing base of customers throughout the Northeastern United States. By the end of the calendar year the company plans to expand these customer offerings to include e-mail routing, fax-over-IP services, and voice annotated interactive email.

"Mirapoint has done a remarkable job of taking the technical details of e-mail and aggregating them into an easy-to-use messaging appliance," said David K. Van Allen, CEO of FASTNET. "We now have an appliance based system that is ultra-reliable and centers around industry standards which is important because it doesn’t lock us into a proprietary architecture. As a business communications services provider, we need a highly flexible messaging platform that will enable us to incorporate additional services beyond email. For FASTNET, the M1000 will pave the way to offering our customers a cost effective unified messaging infrastructure that blends IP-based email, voice and fax services into a single, secure communications tool."

Because of their flexibility, Mirapoint’s messaging appliances cater to a variety of service providers, including ISPs, IAPs, NEPs, ASPs, CLECs, Wireless carriers, and messaging service providers. Mirapoint platforms can be deployed rapidly, and managed through delegated administration services, providing unified messaging solutions that can be easily integrated with edge devices such as VPIM/FPIM gateways.

"FASTNET’s near-term decision to standardize on Mirapoint’s technology for its email co-location and customer premise equipment strategy once again underscores the rapidly emerging market opportunity for outsourced email services," said Satish Ramachandran, Mirapoint President and CEO. "More significant however, is FASTNET’s decision to leverage our server as the core of their unified messaging infrastructure which demonstrates the reliability, scalability and flexibility of our approach to unified IP-based messaging."

About FASTNET
As one of the country's first regional commercial Internet providers with a concentration on business data communications, FASTNET serves some of the world's largest organizations operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. FASTNET provides services that range from classic Internet access and secure Customer Controlled Virtual Private Networks, to remote access outsourcing and next-generation wireless technologies. For more information, contact FASTNET at 888-321-FAST, http://www.fast.net or send email to internet@fast.net. FASTNET is privately held with operations funded in part by Hambrecht and Quist, LLC. FASTNET is located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania adjacent to the greater Philadelphia and New York metro markets.

About Mirapoint, Inc.
Founded in 1997, privately-held Mirapoint Inc. is a pioneering developer of function-specific Internet messaging servers for corporations and ISPs. The company is the creator of the industry's first high-performance IP messaging appliance server - a purpose-built application-specific server for standards-based e-mail services for the enterprise and ISPs. Mirapoint's Internet messaging appliances offer significant advantages over general-purpose servers including an exceptionally easy-to-use and deploy solution with industry-leading scalability, reliability, security and a superior total cost of ownership. Mirapoint IP messaging servers are based on the Company's patent pending, tightly-integrated embedded operating and application software and industry-standard hardware. Mirapoint Inc. is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Contact:
Lisa Walters
FASTNET Corporation
(610) 266-6700
lisa@fast.net

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