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CMU Selects MeritMail for Its Student Email

April 23, 2008

Central Michigan University (CMU) of Mount Pleasant MI and Merit Network, Inc. (Merit) of Ann Arbor, announced today CMU has selected Merit's MeritMail services to provide email services to its over 30,000 students.

"We are excited about Merit's ability to provide a cost-effective email service to our students that provides advanced email functions, ensures student email privacy and reduces the University's email costs." said Roger Rehm, CIO of CMU regarding MeritMail. "We looked at all our alternatives carefully - including services like Google's new "free" email service - and concluded freedom from advertising, control over the security and privacy of our students email and outstanding service, functionality and support were critically important to our community."

Don Welch, President of Merit commented, "We welcome CMU to our growing number of MeritMail clients. More and more educational institutions, libraries and other organizations are choosing MeritMail to outsource their email requirements because of the outstanding features, pricing and privacy."

CMU students have over 50,000 mailboxes in use at locations around the globe. MeritMail is a round-the-clock email system that operates on an ASP (Application Service Provider) model. Clients contract for a low monthly fee with no capital costs. Most clients can eliminate tens of thousands of dollar of hardware, software and labor costs by using MeritMail.

MeritMail is a leading email service for educational and other non-profit institutions. MeritMail is based on the most advanced mail, spam and virus solutions and offers the highest level of confidentiality, security and privacy without advertising or sharing of user information for marketing purposes.

About Merit Network, Inc.

Merit Network, a non-profit organization owned and operated by the public universities of Michigan, has a 40 year history providing advanced networking, connectivity and network based application solutions to educational and healthcare institutions in the State of Michigan. MeritMail is one of several services offered by Merit which include video teleconferencing, VOiP and IPTV services. Merit is the leading non-profit provider of fiberoptic-based Internet connectivity to educational institutions in Michigan.

For press/media contact:

Elwood Downing
Merit Network, Inc.
Phone: (734)527-5702
Email:

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