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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY STANDARDIZES ON MIRAPOINT FOR FASTER, EASIER COMMUNICATIONS
University Adopts ISP Role For Faculty And Students

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - December 17, 2001 - Wayne State University in Detroit has chosen equipment from Mirapoint, a leading provider of Internet messaging products, to improve performance, simplify operations, and broaden the reach of its university-wide email system. Using Mirapoint's flexible Internet messaging appliances, Wayne State's more than 31,000 students and faculty can, for the first time, access their personal email accounts anywhere, anytime through a computer, handheld device or mobile phone.

In today's highly mobile and Internet-connected society, educational institutions are being forced to behave like an ISP by offering enhanced Internet services and messaging to attract and retain top faculty and students. By incorporating Mirapoint 's Internet messaging appliances into its e-mail infrastructure, Wayne State University is helping its students and faculty communicate constantly among peer groups, study teams and classrooms.

"Our students and faculty rely heavily on our email system to communicate and share critical information such as assignments, research and reports," said Jim Johnson, CIO of Wayne State University. "To meet these needs, we require a fast, reliable and accessible email system that has been customized to meet specific requirements. Mirapoint has helped us improve our campus-wide email service through a solution that is extremely easy to implement and maintain." Since migrating to Mirapoint's system, Wayne State's messaging service has improved significantly through faster message delivery, better spam and virus protection, and ubiquitous accessibility. Using any Web browser or Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-enabled mobile phone, users can now connect directly to their personal email account from any place on campus or from anywhere in the world.

According to a report by Forrester Research, approximately 60 percent of all students use email and Internet chat-based services to correspond with their instructors about class assignments or to get specialized assistance. The report indicates that these students look to instructors for guidance and as role models, and it advises universities to integrate IT services into their general practices and culture.

"Today's students and faculty expect higher education institutions to serve as service providers to ensure consistent communications among the university community. With limited IT resources, these institutions must rely on full-featured, easy-to-maintain systems like Mirapoint's Internet messaging appliances to provide reliable and efficient services," said Satish Ramachandran, chairman and CEO of Mirapoint. "Our Internet messaging products are an ideal solution as universities provide ubiquitous access to e-mails and meet the growing needs of a continually evolving population of students and staff."

Wayne State University has deployed several of Mirapoint's Internet messaging products. These products include the Mirapoint Internet Message Server, which provide the scalability and reliability necessary to handle the challenges of the largest messaging environments; the Mirapoint Message Director, which delivers efficient routing of inbound and outbound email traffic, SPAM filtering, virus protection and policy enforcement; and Webmail Direct™ and WAPmail Direct™, which provide fast and secure Web and mobile access to Internet messages.

About Wayne State University
Wayne State University is a premier research institution of higher education offering more than 350 academic programs through 14 schools and colleges to more than 31,000 students in metropolitan Detroit. For more information please visit www.wayne.edu.

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. One of Computerworld Magazine's Top 100 Emerging Companies for 2002 and named to Upside Magazine's Hot 100 Private Companies List in 2001, 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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