Rocket, Web Access Manager

Overview

Regulations, policies, safety, and security all make an Internet filter essential in schools. But over-blocking limits the potential of the Web to promote participatory learning and acquisition of 21st-century skills. And on large networks with high bandwidth, other filtering solutions can create bottlenecks and slow down traffic. Web access management on high-capacity networks needs to balance educational Web 2.0 use with network security and student safety—while maintaining network performance.

The Lightspeed Rocket, Web Access Manager provides an integrated hardware-software solution for web filtering–offering intelligent features for customization, granular policy control, safe Web 2.0 access, and mobile filtering–to ensure safe web browsing for your users and speed and reliability for your network.

Learn about the features of the Lightspeed Rocket, Web Access Manager

Features

The Lightspeed Rocket, Web Access Manager provides powerful, easy-to-use features for web filtering and safe Web 2.0 access:

• Comprehensive and accurate URL database with more than one billion entries grouped into education-specific categories
• Multiple layers of anonymous proxy detection and blocking to keep users from bypassing your filter and accessing blocked sites
• netTrekker d.i. integration to ensure seamless access to approved netTrekker sites
• Filtering for mobile users and protection for school computers outside the network—without a VPN, from any location, with any type of Internet connection—via the Guide Mobile Filter
• Flexible filtering for thin clients, including NComputing, Citrix, and Windows Terminal Server
• Ability to create different policies based on user, IP, group, organizational unit, domain
• Peer-to-peer application and file-type blocking
• Integration with Student Information Systems for comprehensive, individualized user information and custom reporting
• Daily signature updates, and immediate emergency updates, directly from Lightspeed Systems
• Ability to accommodate even the heaviest traffic loads, up to 1 GB of Internet bandwidth, without hindering performance
• Hardened and secured operating system
• Network threat protection
• Support for up to 10Gb throughput
• Educational Video Library for safe access to approved YouTube videos
• NEW! My Big Campus with a Resource Library and Collaboration site for safe Web 2.0 access in schools

Learn about the reporting capabilities of the Lightspeed Rocket, Web Access Manager

Reporting

The Lightspeed Rocket, Web Access Manager gives you access to comprehensive information about who is viewing what over the Internet, so you can adjust Acceptable Use Policies, change allowed usages, review problems and troubleshoot issues, and plan for ongoing needs. You can see a high-level overview of content viewed and blocked, and then drill down for detailed information, with reports like:

• Blocked Content
• Search Engine Queries
• Blocked URLs
• URLs visited
• Traffic by Category
• Overrides (active and history)

Learn more about our reports

Learn about the benefits of the Lightspeed Rocket, Web Access Manager

Benefits

Lightspeed Rocket, Web Access Manager offers valuable benefits to high-capacity school networks.

Protects users from inappropriate material on the Internet.
The Lightspeed Rocket, Web Access Manager detects and/or blocks access to inappropriate material on the Internet based on our extensive, education-specific URL database, as well as your own custom allow and block lists. For optimal effectiveness and efficiency, the web filtering appliance is placed inline in order to see, evaluate, and report on all network traffic.

Keeps searches safe.
Web Access Manager ensures that search results on Google and other popular search engines do not include inappropriate sites or images, such as pornography and sexual content.

Provides safe Web 2.0 access.
Web Access Manager promotes a balance between learning and security by offering safe, easily-managed ways to access Web 2.0 tools and resources, share online resources, and engage in participatory learning.

Ensures speed and power.
The Lightspeed Rocket, Web Access Manger includes a high-speed appliance, operating on top of a hardened and secured operating system, preinstalled with our best-of-breed Internet filtering software. This integrated solution provides fast, reliable web filtering for your high-capacity network—with the ability to handle even the heaviest traffic loads, up to 10Gb of throughput.