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BRUTÉLÉ CHOOSES MIRAPOINT'S PRODUCTS TO DEVELOP NEW INTERNET MESSAGING CABLE SERVICE

PARIS - October 17, 2001 - Brutélé, a leading Belgian telecommunications operator, has selected Mirapoint, a leading provider of Internet messaging infrastructure products, to improve its Internet messaging cable service for consumers and business users. Faced with an increasing number of subscribers and requests for additional e-mail services, Brutélé turned to Mirapoint to help develop a new Internet messaging offering.

Brutélé's previous system was not able to handle the addition of new services and lacked the ability to successfully manage subscriber growth - which would lead to poor quality of service. The company now uses Mirapoint's Internet Message Server for storing and delivering messages for end users, and Mirapoint's Message Director for scanning incoming and outgoing messages for harmful viruses and spam.

According to Laurent Delbascour, Brutélé's Internet department director, "We chose Mirapoint products for a number of reasons including reliability, efficiency, easy configuration and interoperability. Mirapoint's technology allows us to satisfy customer demands by offering a high-performing, accessible and secure Internet messaging service."

The Mirapoint system has improved Brutélé's messaging service significantly including overall reliability, performance in terms of sending and receiving e-mails, and highly effective anti-virus protection. In addition, Brutélé is now capable of offering new capabilities such as hosted messaging services and Web and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-based access to email.
"Mirapoint's products have allowed us to add innovative services to our Internet messaging offering that fully meet the needs of our current users while helping us acquire new subscribers," states Brutélé's Director General, Jean-Michel Adant.

About Brutélé
Founded in 1968, Brutélé is a cooperative company operating in Brussels and in the Walloon region. The company initially was focused on the cable distribution area and today boasts close to 300,000 subscribers of that service. In February 1999, Brutélé received its operator's license from the IBPT (Institut Belge des services Postaux et Télécommunications) and developed telecommunication services that included broadband Internet access via modem and high-speed rented lines on its fibre optic infrastructure. Other services Brutélé offers include cable television, pay-per-view television and 24-hour Internet access via cable. For further information on Brutélé, please visit : www.brutele.be

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. Named to Upside Magazine's Hot 100 Private Companies List in 2001 for Internet 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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