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Sprint Teams With FrontBridge to Provide Industry-Leading Email Protection Services OVERLAND PARK, Kan., April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Sprint and FrontBridge Technologies, the leader in enterprise message-security services, today announced an expanded technology and marketing agreement to deliver FrontBridge's award-winning suite of email-security solutions to customers of Sprint worldwide.http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040423/SFF036LOGO ) The expanded partnership combines FrontBridge's market-leading email security services with Sprint's global network and distribution channels to deliver an innovative email-protection service to organizations internationally. Initially launched in September 2002 as Sprint Email Protection(SM) Services, the service works with standard messaging architectures and, as a network-based service, requires no hardware or software to purchase, install, manage or upgrade. Features of Sprint Email Protection Services include virus protection, spam filtering, disaster recovery, content and policy enforcement, and 24x7 online reporting. According to internal FrontBridge research, more than 72 percent of business email is comprised of spam -- up from 47 percent just one year ago. This immense amount of spam traffic has driven strong demand among enterprises for email-security solutions, with Sprint Email Protection Services having been implemented for more than one million corporate-email account users in the last 12 months. "We evaluated the services of many vendors and concluded FrontBridge's TrueProtect Message Management Suite was by far the best," noted Randy Ritter, vice president of Product Management - Network Solutions, Sprint. "No one else in the marketplace has delivered over two million continuous minutes of up-time, and our customers demand that level of performance and reliability. With Sprint Email Protection Services, our customers can now leverage the Sprint global network to receive world-class email-security solutions that are reliable and easy to implement." FrontBridge, which was recently recognized within the prestigious "Leaders Quadrant" of Gartner Group's influential magic quadrant report on enterprise spam filtering, maintains a global network of eight distributed and load- balanced data centers that deliver spam-filtering, anti-virus, content/policy enforcement and disaster-recovery services to over 1,500 companies around the world. As one of the top global carriers, Sprint carries billions of email messages across its networks every day. Together, Sprint and FrontBridge are combining their respective technical and market leadership to offer businesses the means to secure their messaging infrastructure from the negative financial and productivity effects of spam, viruses and natural disasters such as blackouts and hurricanes. "The Sprint agreement significantly extends FrontBridge's channel and customer reach," said FrontBridge president and CEO Steve Jillings. "This agreement once again validates FrontBridge's market leadership, maturity and continued innovation in offering the industry's leading email-security solutions to Sprint customers worldwide. Backed by Sprint's world-class brand, we are delivering a critically needed service to businesses of all sizes." In addition to their product-management agreement, FrontBridge and Sprint are working collaboratively on sales and marketing activities to accelerate customer deployments on a worldwide basis. Interested parties can find out more by visiting the companies' websites at http://www.sprint.com/ or http://www.frontbridge.com/ . About Sprint Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. With approximately 65,000 employees worldwide and over $26 billion in annual revenues in 2003, Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the-art network technologies, including the United States' first nationwide all- digital, fiber-optic network and an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint provides local communications services in 39 states and the District of Columbia and operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States. For more information, visit http://www.sprint.com/ . About FrontBridge Technologies FrontBridge Technologies, Inc. is the enterprise market leader for email security and message management services. The company's TrueProtect(TM) Message Management Suite protects corporations from spam, viruses and malicious email-borne attacks with unmatched security, performance and reliability. FrontBridge offers the industry's most comprehensive service level guarantees, including guaranteed uptime of 99.999 percent and guaranteed messaged delivery. Now in its fourth year of operation, FrontBridge manages email security for over 1,500 enterprises globally and is headquartered in Marina del Rey, Calif. Our technical anti-virus partners include Sophos, Symantec, and Trend Micro. Visit us on the Web at http://www.frontbridge.com/ or call 877.301.8232 or in the UK, +44.1296.660.736. Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001013/SPRINTLOGOhttp://www.newscom.com/cg i-bin/prnh/20040423/SFF036LOGOAP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org/PRN Photo Desk, +1-888-776-6555 or +1-212-782-2840 Sprint CONTACT: Media, Paul Baltzer of Sprint, +1-913-794-3615,[email protected] , or Cathy Summers of SHIFT Communications forFrontBridge, +1-415-591-8415, or [email protected] Web site: http://www.sprint.com/http://www.frontbridge.com/ |