Cbeyond Offers Reliable, Secure Email Using Mirapoint Appliances; Mirapoint Message Servers Scale Easily to Accommodate Cbeyond's Growing Managed Services Provider Business.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Mirapoint(R), the messaging experts, today announced that Cbeyond Communications, a nationally recognized Managed Services Provider, has deployed the Mirapoint Message Server 4500 appliances with integrated virus and spam protection. Cbeyond chose Mirapoint appliances for their proven scalability, collaborative feature set critical for business customers, as well as ease-of-management and proven low cost of ownership benefits. The Message Server appliances are used today by Cbeyond to provide secure, managed, business-grade email services to its small business customers.

"Cbeyond believes that the small business, entrepreneurial customer deserves enterprise-class messaging services," said Brooks Robinson, Chief Marketing Officer at Cbeyond. "Mirapoint has demonstrated a level of understanding and focus on messaging unmatched by other vendors in the marketplace, which enables Cbeyond to better capitalize on the hosted messaging opportunity with feature-rich, reliable email and collaboration services."

Scalability proved the determining factor for Cbeyond in their selection of Mirapoint's Message Server appliances. Utilizing the scalability of the appliances, Cbeyond now has a solution in place for its business today as well as for future service offerings. Other compelling features for Cbeyond also included Mirapoint's standards-based platform, which could seamlessly integrate into Cbeyond Online, its customer self-care portal, flexible webmail branding, as well as better reporting on messaging traffic and service usage. Additionally, Cbeyond has benefited from the appliances' leading ease-of-management.

"The service provider market is clearly on the upswing and at the heart of this growth are billable messaging services being offered by next-generation Managed Services Providers like Cbeyond," said Barry Ariko, CEO and Chairman of Mirapoint. "Like many of our other world-class service providers, Cbeyond required a reliable, secure messaging infrastructure for their hosted messaging service offerings and Mirapoint is pleased to be their business partner, providing them with all of these required capabilities."

Only From The Messaging Experts at Mirapoint

Mirapoint is the only vendor in the industry with email and email security appliances for any size organization. Mirapoint's Message Server is the industry's only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access, and management with Mirapoint's comprehensive, multi-layered, Full-Spectrum(TM) email security technology. The Message Server is designed to support any enterprise, service provider, government, or education customer trying to deliver email to a broad base of users that demand anytime, anywhere access to carrier-grade email services. Designed to complement any email server, Mirapoint also offers the RazorGate email security appliances, which provide multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, as well as provide advanced management of message traffic through policy enforcement tools, content filters, and detailed reporting.

About Cbeyond Communications

Cbeyond Communications, a privately held, Atlanta-based Managed Services Provider, is the leader in the emerging local voice and broadband services market and manages the world's first 100% Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) local phone network. Using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and a 100% Cisco-powered, facilities-based, private network, Cbeyond delivers to small business customers in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Denver and Houston an integrated package of high quality local and long distance telephony services, high-speed Internet access and Internet-based applications for about the same price that small businesses typically pay for local and long distance service alone. For more information on Cbeyond Communications, visit http://www.cbeyond.net/.

About Mirapoint

Mirapoint(R) is a leader in solutions for message networks used by service provider, enterprise, education and government institutions. Customers use Mirapoint solutions, including the RazorGate email security appliances, to build message networks that intelligently and securely route, store, access and manage Internet messages, including email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at http://www.mirapoint.com/.

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Web site: http://www.cbeyond.net/

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