Meeting your large school network's big needs
Big networks with large pipes, high traffic, and distributed environments have unique needs and issues. With high traffic volume, distributed networks, large bandwidth, and many users, filtering web access and blocking spam can create bottlenecks, network availability issues, and management headaches.
As email becomes a primary method of communication for staff (and in some districts, students), messaging rates for large districts can quickly climb to more than 100,000 a day. In many cases, more than 90% of those messages are spam. With numbers like those, it’s easy to see why spam blocking on big networks can quickly become a point of network bog-down. And with many users increasingly browsing the Web throughout the school day, visiting many different sites over different computers located at different sites, filtering all web content can create a bottleneck.
Adding to these complications are the technicalities of a large district’s network infrastructure. A filtering solution placed out-of-line within the network doesn’t effectively capture and filter all traffic and activity. A spam blocking solution placed in-line would filter the messages only after they reach your mail server, negating the benefit of reduced load on your mail server.
Discover how you can meet the capacity and infrastructure needs of your big network to ensure fast, reliable web filtering and spam blocking.
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