Ridgeland, Mississippi March 30, 2005

The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) has selected Venture Technologies to implement a Campus Area Network (CAN) on the Oxford, Mississippi Campus.

By standardizing on Cisco's award-winning Catalyst 6500 series, Ole Miss will enjoy a reliable, high-performance network that boasts ease of administration and end-to-end manageability. Comprised of 38 Cisco Catalyst 6513 and 6509 switches, the network will deliver continuous connectivity to the University's students, faculty and administration. The 13-slot 6513 and the 9-slot 6509 are ideally suited for a demanding campus environment and feature high performance Fast, Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet that service the backbone, access and distribution networking layers while connecting users to server farms and Data Centers. In a single chassis, Cisco's 6500 series switches support a wide array of networking technologies including firewalling, Intrusion Detection Systems, VPN's, multiple WAN interfaces, content networking, network analysis, voice modules and SSL acceleration. When fully deployed, the network will provide high-performance networking to over 6,000 concurrent users.

The versatility and scalability of the multilayer 6500 series will position Ole Miss for future deployments of wireless, video, IP Telephony and other converged technologies across the main Ole Miss campus and the University's remote campuses.

Gerard Gibert, Venture's CEO remarked – "The new Cisco-powered network will deliver instant and ubiquitous access to the University's vast computing resources and data repositories and is consistent with Ole Miss' charter as a Great American Public University".

Installation of the new network will begin in May, 2005 is expected to be completed by September, 2005. Implementation will be a joint effort between the University's IT department and Venture's Professional Services Organization. In addition, Venture will subcontract with a few University Engineering students for assistance. During the course of the project, these students will be exposed to world-class networking technologies and Venture's proven project management and implementation methodologies.

About Ole Miss

Chartered by the Mississippi Legislature in 1844, The University of Mississippi opened its doors to 80 students in 1848. Total enrollment on The University of Mississippi's three campuses and The University of Mississippi Medical Center is almost 16,500. Sixty-seven percent of undergraduates are from Mississippi, and 18 percent of all students are minorities. International students come from 66 nations. Ole Miss is located in the rolling hills of North Mississippi about 80 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. The historic, wooded campus encompasses nearly 1,000 acres and includes 220 major buildings. The Lyceum, opened in 1848, is the institutional landmark and is the theme of the University's logo. The University also operates campuses at the DeSoto Center in Southaven, the Advanced Education Center in Tupelo, and The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. See www.olemiss.edu for more information

About Venture Technologies

Venture Technologies is an IT services company founded in 1985 by Gerard Gibert, CDP and Norman Katool, CPA and headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi. The company provides a variety of IT solutions including Network Design and Integration, Network Security, IP Telephony, Document Management, Web-Based Application Development and Data Center-Based Managed Services. Venture serves private and public sector clients across the Southeast with locations in Memphis, Birmingham, Nashville and Dallas.

For more information, contact Mark Frye, VP Sales and Marketing - AL/MS/FL or email jmfrye@ventech.com or Tom Cormany, VP Sales and Marketing - TN 901-937- 7101 or e-mail wtcormany@ventech.com or Kim McCarty, Senior Account Manager, Lousiana or kmccarty@ventech.com.