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Engineering Firm Significantly Reduces Spam With Sprint Email Protection Services

Posted on: Thursday, 20 November 2003, 06:00 CST

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Dewberry, the second-largest engineering firm based in the Washington, D.C. area, announced today it has signed an agreement with Sprint to provide network-based anti-spam services to control the inflow of spam to its 1,600 employees. Since implementing Sprint Email Protection Services, Dewberry has managed to prevent more than 700,000 spam e-mails in less than three months, relieving mail servers from having to process and store about 3.5 gigabits of electronic mail. In addition to utilizing Sprint Email Protection Services, Sprint provides Dewberry with frame relay and Internet services.

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"We tested Sprint Email Protection Services for 30 days and the service greatly reduced the amount of spam," said Henry Tyler, director of Corporate Technology, Dewberry. "Our e-mail servers were constantly inundated with spam, and we were spending significant time and other resources to address this issue. The reason we chose Sprint Email Protection Services is because it made a difference in the amount of spam Dewberry receives, and it was easy to implement."

Sprint Email Protection Services is a network-based solution that is designed to maintain the integrity of corporate messages before they ever enter a company's network infrastructure. Features of the service include virus protection; spam filtering; store and forward; content and policy screening; and 24x7 online reporting. Additionally, the service requires no hardware or software to purchase, install, manage, upgrade or fix. It is estimated that nearly 31 billion e-mail messages are sent daily, with estimates of e-mail traffic growth to 60 billion messages daily by 2006.

"Combine the reliance on e-mail for business communication with the importance of maintaining open and effective communication channels, and customers begin to understand the importance of enterprise message management," said Vicki Warker, vice president of Marketing and Sales Operations, Sprint. "Sprint Email Protection Services is the tool of choice for businesses of all sizes who want to enhance the utilization of their networks and increase productivity, while minimizing the damage spam can cause."

Professional services companies -- especially engineering, accounting and law firms -- are experiencing a growing demand for connectivity solutions and integrated applications, which could exhaust internal IT resources and increase the need for managed business and network services. To meet this demand for advanced communications, Sprint provides a host of telecom solutions, including fully managed options that specifically address the business and connectivity needs of professional services organizations.

Sprint received the 2003 Market Leadership Award for Vertical Solutions from Frost & Sullivan for its unequalled professional services vertical program in the U.S. telecom market. Through an extensive study of end-user requirements and market dynamics within the industry, Frost & Sullivan identified Sprint's outstanding achievements in providing superior solutions and service to this industry.

Sprint has more than 25 years of data and security experience and a staff of certified security professionals. In addition to Sprint Email Protection Services, Sprint also provides other secure network solutions, consisting of IP VPN, firewalls, intrusion detection, user authentication services, Web content management and security consulting services. For more information, visit http://www.sprintbiz.com/ . For more information on a special trial offer for Sprint Email Protection Services, visit http://www.sprintbiz.com/products/email_protection/index.html .

About Dewberry

Dewberry is a 1,600-person professional services firm specializing in planning, engineering, architecture, surveying, geographic information services, program management and environmental sciences. Established in 1956, the firm has 29 offices nationwide with headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia. Dewberry works in partnership with public and private-sector clients locally, regionally and nationally. For more information, visit http://www.dewberry.com/ .

About Sprint

Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. With approximately 70,000 employees worldwide and nearly $27 billion in annual revenues, 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/ .