City of Missoula Picks Qwest for iQ Networking

Qwest Communications International Inc. (www.qwest.com) today announced that the city of Missoula, Mont. has selected Qwest's wide area networking (WAN) solution, known as iQ Networking ™ to help it control and eliminate unwanted spam and viruses that present a strain on the city's network.

With approximately 300 employees, many of them with public e-mail addresses, the city of Missoula was challenged by the very large volumes of spam on a daily basis. The city had resource constraints it imposed on their network but never had the expertise or tools to adequately block or measure spam and email viruses.

"We didn't realize the sheer amount of unwanted email we received until we implemented this solution and could track this problem," said David Boring, information network manager for the city of Missoula.

"There are estimates that 45-50 percent of all e-mail is spam, which creates an enormous burden on customers' memory and storage requirements," said Cliff Holtz, executive vice president, business markets group for Qwest.

The Qwest iQ Networking solution offers a wide variety of WAN services including a managed security service requiring no additional hardware or software.