DENVER -- Dec. 15, 2004 -- MX Logic, Inc., a leading provider of innovative email defense solutions that ensure email protection and security for businesses, service providers, government organizations, resellers and their customers, today announced that Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) (NASDAQ: IIJI), one of Japan's leading Internet-access and comprehensive Internet solutions providers, has deployed the MX Logic(R) Email Defense Gateway--Service Provider Edition to provide comprehensive email defense to its extensive customer base. IIJ's customers include over 65,000 consumers and more than 6,000 corporations, representing major financial companies and government organizations in Japan.
According to IIJ's recent survey of corporate users and their experiences with spam, more than 80 percent of respondents have suffered economic losses due to spam, and more than 90 percent desire a server-level anti-spam function.
By leveraging MX Logic's Email Defense Gateway, IIJ will provide anti-spam and other email defense solutions as a value-added managed service to both its corporate and consumer customers, protecting them from the most harmful and costly email threats while simultaneously creating a new revenue stream for IIJ.
IIJ has already added MX Logic Email Defense Gateway spam protection to its secure corporate email outsourcing services -- IIJ Mail Gateway Service, a gateway-based email auditing and virus detection and elimination service, and the IIJ Post Office Service, which enables email usage with a unique domain name and account management without having to operate and maintain a mail server. Starting Dec. 16, IIJ will offer spam protection to its consumer service, IIJ4U, using the MX Logic Email Defense Gateway. This new feature will be provided free of charge to customers using IIJ's optional virus protection service, which detects and deletes viruses.
"With the MX Logic Email Defense Gateway solution, IIJ can offer the email protection that our customers need, at a price they can afford, while providing us greater control by enabling us to manage the software on premise at our Tokyo data center," said Toshiya Asaba, executive vice president, IIJ. "We selected MX Logic to provide our corporate and consumer customers with protection from spam because MX Logic has a proven track record of effectiveness with our subsidiary, IIJ America Inc. We look forward to offering this protection to our customers in Japan."
In June, MX Logic announced its partnership with IIJ America Inc., which is co-branding and selling the MX Logic Email Defense Service to Japanese multinational corporations in North America as part of its overall Internet service solution suite.
"MX Logic is honored to be working with IIJ to protect its customers from the rising tide of email-borne threats. IIJ has affirmed its longstanding commitment to protect its customers and to maximize their productivity by employing the most advanced email protection technologies available," said John Street, MX Logic chairman and CEO.
"We are also excited about our partnership with IIJ because it opens new markets in Japan and all of Asia. With the international capabilities of our platform, MX Logic is poised for further growth into other global markets," said John Street.
MX Logic Email Defense Gateway represents the first end-to-end email defense solution that allows service providers to generate revenue from the sale of comprehensive and reliable email defense services to their business customers, while providing cost-effective protection to their consumer email end users. Designed for a distributed architecture with carrier-grade reliability, the flexible software platform allows service providers to customize their solution by purchasing the gateway and then adding filtering modules as needed.
MX Logic Email Defense Gateway enables service providers like IIJ to brand, package, price and sell customized solutions to their corporate and consumer email customers. Service providers can seamlessly integrate MX Logic's solutions into their existing suite of products and services, establishing a fully branded service, including a Web-based MX Logic Control Console(SM) that includes their corporate name, logo and all other parameters visible by their customers.
Launched in February 2004, the MX Logic Email Defense Gateway is now deployed by service providers worldwide. In addition to IIJ, companies including (i)Structure, Tucows and Verio are leveraging the MX Logic Email Defense Gateway to provide comprehensive email protection to their customers.
For information on the features and benefits of the MX Logic Email Defense Gateway please visit http://www.mxlogic.com/solutions/email_gateway.html.
About Internet Initiative Japan
Founded in 1992, IIJ is one of Japan's leading Internet-access and comprehensive network solutions providers. The company has built one of the largest Internet backbone networks in Japan, and between Japan and the United States. IIJ and its group of companies provide total network solutions that mainly cater to high-end corporate customers. The company's services include high-quality systems integration and security services, Internet access, hosting/housing, and content design.
About MX Logic
MX Logic, Inc. provides innovative email defense solutions that ensure email protection and security for businesses, service providers, government organizations, and resellers and their customers. The company's feature-rich solution suite is the industry's most comprehensive, flexible and easy to use.
