MEGAPATH ANNOUNCES RETAIL-FOCUSED WEBINAR ON NETWORKS AND PCI COMPLIANCE

RIS News Editor-in-Chief to Moderate Panel Discussion on Making the Most of Your Network while Reducing Costs

COSTA MESA, CA -- July 1, 2009 -- MegaPath, Inc., the leading provider of managed IP data, voice, and security services in North America, announced today it is participating in a retail-focused webinar titled “Future Proof Your Network with MPLS and PCI Compliance.” As part of RIS News' webCONNECTION series, the webinar will be held on Tuesday, July 14th from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET.
During the webinar, the panelists will discuss the challenges retailers face as they work to simplify their networks and reduce costs. The panel will also provide retailers with strategies for increasing bandwidth to accommodate critical, in-store applications such as point-of-sale, video surveillance, e-training and IP telephony. Providing retailers with insights for maintaining a secure, compliant network, while ensuring customer satisfaction, the webinar will cover:

• Optimizing retail applications and future-proofing networks to be both efficient and flexible
• Reducing costs by connecting all store applications over a single high-speed, PCI compliant network
• Removing WAN PCI compliance hurdles through use of MegaPath MPLS VPN
• Utilizing Managed Security Services to promote PCI compliance
• Building scalability and flexibility into a network to accommodate changing bandwidth and connectivity
• Enhancing operational efficiency through prioritization to ensure bandwidth is available as needed for mission critical applications via use of MPLS to achieve Quality of Service (QoS)
  

WHO:  Joe Skorupa, Group Editor-in-Chief, RIS News, Moderator
             David Taylor, Founder, PCI Knowledge Base
             Sunita Gupta, Leading Retail Industry Consultant
             S.L. Sweet, Director, Product Management, MegaPath
WHAT: Future Proof Your Network with MPLS and PCI Compliance
WHEN: Tuesday, July 14; 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
WHERE: Registration can be accessed at the Edgell WebEx Enterprise Site

In addition to its managed voice, data and security services, MegaPath offers the retail industry PCI compliant connectivity options for payment processing and transferring data over a secure, private MPLS network instead of the Internet. They include:

• MegaPath's Payment Processor Extranet provides a secure and reliable connectivity service to transaction processing centers nationwide. The service supports all major credit, debit, gift and private label card and check payment processors from a Site-to-Site MPLS VPN service.
• MegaPath StoreConnect allows retailers and store owners to safely process credit cards via the Internet over a single broadband line thus eliminating costly credit card transaction fees in favor of a flat monthly fee. In addition, StoreConnect customers are now able to comply with the Payment Cardholder Information (PCI) Data Security Standard.

About MegaPath Inc.
MegaPath is the leading provider of managed IP communications services in North America. MegaPath leverages its wide selection of broadband connectivity, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Voice over IP (VoIP) and security technologies to enable businesses to lower costs, increase security and enhance productivity. Businesses of all sizes can easily and securely communicate between their headquarters, branch offices, retail locations, mobile workers, and business partners. To learn more about why over 23,000 companies have chosen MegaPath's managed IP data, voice and security services to improve their business communications, visit www.megapath.com or call 1-877-MegaPath (634-2728).