Mirapoint’s Secure Messaging Solutions Help Carriers Achieve a lower TCO to Deliver High-Margin, Value-added Services

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – June 11, 2007 – Mirapoint, the secure messaging expert, today announced leading independent telecommunications holding company SureWest Communications (NASDAQ: SURW) has selected the company’s messaging systems to deliver its hosted and managed email and  security services. SureWest is parent to the largest incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) headquartered in California, serving roughly 250,000 customers in the Sacramento/Roseville corridor and has the capability to provide DSL service to all of its ILEC area.  

With a focus on delivering the highest standards of security and reliability to its customers, SureWest will utilize Mirapoint’s messaging appliances to extend secure, always-on messaging services to consumers and enterprise customers providing them with 99.999 percent uptime reliability. Featuring the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) appliances, Mirapoint also helps enable SureWest to maximize profits. Since Mirapoint solutions require minimal expenditures, SureWest can achieve a quick return on investment and add to the bottom line.

“SureWest Communications is a validation of our offerings in the service provider market,” said Barry Ariko, CEO, Mirapoint. “With Mirapoint’s messaging appliances, SureWest has a centrally-managed messaging infrastructure that is secure, reliable, highly scalable and easy to manage. In addition, SureWest Communications is able to provide security, reliability and compliance, and address new requirements like group collaboration, mobile access, instant messaging and disaster recovery.”

According to Scott Barber, SureWest’s vice president Network Operations, “SureWest is committed to providing our customers with an email platform that is both user friendly and extremely dependable. We selected Mirapoint as a business partner because they provide a complete solution to deliver email along with virus and spam protection that is highly reliable.  The solution is scalable and can be easily managed by both the service provider and the customer.”

Appliance-Based Approach Benefits Service Providers
Mirapoint’s appliance-based approach for secure messaging can help carriers like SureWest Communications achieve a lower TCO to deliver high-margin, value-added services. Mirapoint’s messaging solutions enable service providers to lower capex and opex by reducing the number of IT resources required to manage the system; leveraging a purpose-built and hardened OS that provides greater reliability and security; and simplifying and accelerating deployment and provisioning of new services. Mirapoint technology also enables SureWest Communications to resell multiple tiers of services including: IMAP, POP, HTTP; content filtering and anti-spam functionality; anti-virus protection, Junk Mail Manager; shared folders; and an easy-to-use web-based user interface.

Mirapoint has provided secure messaging solutions to some of the industry’s largest service providers including Research In Motion (RIM), British Telecom, China Telecom, and Cable & Wireless. Mirapoint is the only vendor in the industry with a proven email server, archiving and security appliances that offer carrier-class, 99.999 percent uptime reliability and the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership. Mirapoint’s Message Server is the only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access and management. Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliances provide multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, with spam and virus catch-rates upwards of 98 percent. Combined, Mirapoint appliances deliver a secure messaging infrastructure to enterprises worldwide.

About SureWest Communications
Serving the Northern California region for more than 90 years, SureWest Communications (www.surewest.com) is one of the nation's leading integrated communications providers. SureWest's bundled offerings include an array of advanced digital video, high-speed Internet, local and long distance telephone, and PCS wireless services. SureWest's fiber-to-the-premise IP-based network features high-definition video and symmetrical Internet speeds of up to 50 Mbps.

About Mirapoint
Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and educational organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

2007 Mirapoint, Inc. All rights reserved. All company and product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

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