Bizanga Powers RENATER’s Anti-Spam Service

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- Provides Flexibility and Scalability Required by One of Europe’s Largest Public-Sector Networks

Bizanga, the global company behind the most scalable and full-featured email and message processing platform, and Vade Retro, a leading company in Anti-Spam technology, today announced that RENATER, the French National Telecommunication network for Technology, Education and Research has turned to Bizanga’s Intelligent Message Processor (IMP) and Vade Retro solution as the system behind its newly launched Anti-Spam Service.

As one of the largest national research and education networks in Europe (NREN), RENATER selected Bizanga’s IMP platform together with Vade Retro’s Anti-Spam solution and Anti-Virus software. The IMP was chosen for its versatility in deploying a service for its research and education community after extensive comparative testing. It best matched RENATER’s need for easily accessible detailed information, statistics and usage data for post-processing while providing the throughput and scalability necessary for such a large deployment.

“We are very pleased with the flexibility of the IMP”, said Professor Dany Vandromme, RENATER’s Director. “Bizanga’s solution enables us to easily cater to the individual requirements of each RENATER member. Furthermore, it integrated into our complex infrastructure without a hitch.”

RENATER provides the multi-Gigabit Internet backbone and services on its dark-fiber network for more than 1,000 research and education sites across France.

“We are extremely pleased about this agreement with RENATER”, said Serge Dugas, GM EMEA of Bizanga. “This is our first reference in the public sector in Europe, opening a new area of growth for Bizanga. As in other markets, we have again been able to demonstrate our ability for better performance and scalability, show better return on investment and deliver a solution on time and exceeding customer requirements.”

“We are very happy to collaborate with RENATER. Vade Retro Technology is an antispam solution which will allow to secure all members of the RENATER network with a high quality of protection”, said Emile Devred, Business Manager of Vade Retro Technology.

About Bizanga

Bizanga is the global company that developed the most scalable and full-featured E-mail message processing and security platform, the Intelligent Message Processor(R) (IMP). The IMP can be deployed to protect an E-mail infrastructure from blended threats including spam, viruses, denial-of-service and harvest attacks. It can also be used to perform parental control, compliance/encryption services or simply to manage infrastructure migration or new service deployment. Designed especially for service providers, the IMP is extremely easy to integrate with existing infrastructure, including provisioning systems and message stores. IMPs handle E-mail for millions of mailboxes throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Bizanga sells directly to Internet service providers, cable operators, fixed-line and mobile operators. The technology is also available on an OEM basis to application software vendors. Bizanga is a member of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Work Group (www.maawg.org). For more information about Bizanga, visit the company’s Web site at www.bizanga.com.

About Vade Retro Technology

Created in 2001, Vade Retro Technology is the security division of GOTO Software, which is a French software publisher since 1982. Vade Retro is an expert on email service protection and is protecting more than 100 million email addresses through Europe. Vade Retro Technology offers OEM solutions to the European biggest Internet Service Providers but also publishes products and services dedicated to companies and individual workstations www.vade-retro.com.

About RENATER

The RENATER network is a national infrastructure with territorial links to French overseas departments and territories, and international links with global research networks. Today more than 1000 establishments with activities in the sectors of research, technology and teaching are linked to RENATER. The network enables these establishments to communicate between themselves as well as access research centers and education organizations worldwide through the Internet. For more information, visit www.renater.fr.

Source: Bizanga Ltd

Contacts: Bizanga: Serge Dugas, +33-6-12-58-61-10, Serge.Dugas at Bizanga.com; Vade Retro Technology / GOTO Software: Benoit Renart, +33-3-28-32-83-28, brenart at goto.fr; RENATER: Virginie Blanquart, +33-6-86-66-25-32, blanquart at renater.fr