Atlanta, Georgia - (The Hosting News) - March 15, 2007 - Web hosting and managed integrated VoIP small business services provider, Cbeyond, was featured at the Raymond James 28th Annual Institutional Investors Conference at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Florida.

Bob Fugate, Chief Financial Officer of Cbeyond, discussed the company’s present and future institutional investment strategies.

Over 630 companies attended the conference, as part of a direct and insightful investment endeavor, featuring a broad investment spectrum of Defense Electronics, Electronic Manufacturing Services, Government IT and Homeland Security, Infrastructure Software, Internet Communications, IT Hardware & Distribution, Mobile Data Technology, Power Electronics, Semiconductors, and Storage.

For more than 40 years, Raymond James has combined focused research, powerful distribution, and solid investment banking advice to serve the needs of growth companies and investors. Raymond James’ equity research department is the cornerstone of the organization, with nearly 50 fundamental and technical research analysts covering approximately 675 companies in eight highly focused industries: Business and Industrial Services, Consumer, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Real Estate, Technology, and Telecommunications. With over 100 institutional sales professionals and more than 5,000 affiliated financial advisors in North America and Europe, Raymond James boasts one of the largest sales forces among all U.S. brokerage firms. Industry knowledge and distribution power are central to helping Raymond James’ investment bankers serve the needs of growth companies in the areas of public equity and debt underwriting, private equity and debt placement, and merger and acquisition advisory services. Raymond James investment banking offices are located in 12 North American cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, New York, Toronto, and St. Petersburg.

Cbeyond is an Atlanta-based managed services provider that delivers integrated packages of voice, mobile and broadband services to small businesses in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston and Los Angeles. Cbeyond offers core communications services like local and long-distance voice, mobile and broadband Internet access along with enhanced applications, including voicemail, email, web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing and VPN. Cbeyond manages its services over a private, 100-percent Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) facilities-based network.

To learn more about the presentation available at Cbeyond’s website, please visit: http://ir.cbeyond.net/ir_medialist.cfm.

For more information about Cbeyond, please visit: www.cbeyond.net.