BorderWare Tops MXtreme Line with New MX-1000.News Editors/Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DALLAS & TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2004 New Appliance Delivers Carrier-level Performance, Fault-Tolerance for High Availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. BorderWare Technologies Inc., The Security Appliances Company(TM), today announced a new high end model of its award-winning MXtreme Mail Firewall. The MX-1000 is designed for large enterprises providing carrier-level throughput for 10,000 or more users per system, setting a new benchmark in performance and fault-tolerance for high availability in the mail firewall appliance A device that provides firewall protection for a network. It includes all the necessary hardware and software in a self-contained package that plugs in between the two networks being isolated. Most firewall appliances are solid state and include a stripped down operating system. market. Already, several MX-1000 systems have been delivered to customer sites, some planning to process up to three million messages per day. MXtreme Mail Firewall appliances protect messaging systems from security threats that could paralyze par·a·lyze v. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. email communications. The system analyzes header information and the content of all SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail. messages, scanning for spam, viruses, malformed mal·formed adj. Abnormally or faultily formed. messages, restricted attachments, and other content, then writes that information to its internal database and system logs before sending the message along to internal servers like Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. or Lotus Domino. Performance BorderWare's new MX-1000 model is capable of processing as much as 100,000 messages per hour with all its security protections enabled. This represents a doubling of performance above the MX-800, BorderWare's highest end appliance until the MX-1000. Fault-Tolerance To ensure higher levels of hardware availability, the MX-1000 is designed with a number of fault-tolerant features, including redundant disk drives, redundant hot-swappable power supplies, multiple network interfaces that can support redundant network links, and field replaceable See FRU. parts. The MX-1000 system's four hard drives are configured to stripe and mirror providing RAID 10 redundancy. Technical Specifications The 2U format MX-1000 includes: - Dual 3.06 GHz Intel Xeon Processors with 512KB L2 Cache - 2 GB RAM - DDR, ECC, LP, Registered - 4-72GB Hard Drives, Ultra-320 SCSI, 80-Pin SCA, LC - Adaptec 2010S Zero Channel RAID Controller (RAID 10) - 4 - 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet NICs - Redundant Power Supplies - LCD Display About BorderWare BorderWare Technologies Inc. is The Security Appliances Company. The company's MXtreme Mail Firewall appliance installs at the network edge to deliver the most comprehensive perimeter security for an organization's email infrastructure. MXtreme protects against Denial-of-Service attacks like MyDoom, buffer overflows, directory harvesting, spam, viruses, and other vulnerabilities that could paralyze email communications. More than 1500 systems are deployed in 34 countries at various military, intelligence, defense, national security agencies, and corporations. BorderWare has affiliations and partnerships with some of the industry's most prominent companies in Internet infrastructure and security including Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , RSA Security, Research In Motion (RIM), Brightmail, Kaspersky Labs, BlueCat Networks, Network Engines and SSH Communications Security SSH Communications Security is a Finnish company that is based in Helsinki and was founded by Tatu Ylönen in 1995. It is known as the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol and it currently has about 80 employees. . Founded in 1994, BorderWare is a private company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Dubai, Dallas, San Jose, and Washington DC. For more information visit http://www.borderware.com or call 1-877-814-7900. (C) 2004 BorderWare Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved. BorderWare, The Security Appliances Company, and MXtreme are trademarks of BorderWare Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers. |
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