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Tumbleweed enters India, China and Australia with Premier Channel Alliances

Premiere channel partners facilitate adoption of messaging security products, Add hundreds of sales representatives in Asia-Pacific region

Redwood City, Calif. – July 6, 2007 – Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: TMWD), the industry's leading pure play messaging security vendor, today announced their premier channel alliance program for the Asia-Pacific region. With new premier partners joining Tumbleweed's Alliance Program (TAP), the company adds hundreds of professionals selling its products in India, China and Australia. The expansion is driven by high demand for innovative, reliable and easy-to-use messaging security solutions.

TAP will enable qualified security resellers to sell Tumbleweed’s email security, file transfer security and identity validation products while providing favorable margins and a variety of customer-facing marketing programs.  ACW Distribution, Credence Innovations, Cybertrust, Eagle, Egghead Systems & Networks, Klikon Solutions, and Wipro are among the top resellers who recently joined TAP in Asia-Pacific.

“As security threats are more prevalent in messaging today, it is important to offer our customers reliable messaging security solutions to address their everyday needs,” Prasenjit Saha, General Manager, Enterprise Security Services, Wipro Technologies said. “As a Tumbleweed partner, we can now offer our customers best-of-breed and highly differentiated solutions for secure file transfer and secure messaging. This complements our end-to-end security services and enables us to build customized solutions around Tumbleweed products.”

TAP includes Value Added Resellers, Distributors, Solution Providers, Service Providers and System Integrators that provide a variety of security services and solutions to medium-size, enterprise and government customers around the world. Partners in TAP successfully and profitably leverage Tumbleweed's products to provide comprehensive Internet security solutions to their customers.

“There is a greater demand for messaging security products as organizations rely more on email and secure file transfer for their global communication needs. Our company is dedicated to helping enterprises manage, protect and extend their Internet communications, and our products are in line with customers’ needs,” said Nick Hulse, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at Tumbleweed.  “Tumbleweed is committed to building strong relationships globally with regional channel partners. Using a very channel-friendly approach, we’ve designed our program to complement our partners’ service offerings.”

More information about the Tumbleweed Alliance Program qualifications and details can be found at the Tumbleweed Web site at http://www.tumbleweed.com/partners/index.html

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
Tumbleweed cautions that forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on plans and expectations as of the date of the press release, and that a number of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from the guidance given at this time. These factors are described in the Safe Harbor statement below.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, particularly with respect to Tumbleweed’s Alliance Program, the continued participation of current members of the program, and the number of professionals selling Tumbleweed solutions. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “potential,” “continue,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” and similar expressions.  For further cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed’s Form 10-K filed March 14, 2007 and Form 10-Q filed May 10, 2007.
Tumbleweed assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release. Although this release may remain available on Tumbleweed’s website or elsewhere, its continued availability does not indicate that Tumbleweed is reaffirming or confirming any of the information contained herein.

About Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), the industry’s leading pure play messaging security vendor, provides world-class innovative messaging security solutions for organizations of all sizes.  Organizations rely on Tumbleweed's solutions to securely manage their Internet communications, spanning email management to file transfers. Tumbleweed has nearly 2,700 customers worldwide, representing industries such as Finance, Healthcare, and the U.S. Government. The world’s most security conscious organizations rely upon Tumbleweed technology including Bank of America Securities, JP Morgan Chase & Co., the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the U.S. Department of Defense. Our award-winning products build on fourteen years of R&D and 26 security patents in the U.S. alone – many of which are licensed by other security vendors. More information can be found at www.tumbleweed.com.

Tumbleweed is a registered trademark of Tumbleweed Communications Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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