Clearswift Supplies CS e-Sweeper to Equinox for the London Grid for Learning; Managing and Securing E-mail for 1 Million London Students.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2002 Clearswift, the world's leading provider of software for managing and securing electronic communications, today announced that service provider Equinox equinox (ē`kwĭnŏks), either of two points on the celestial sphere where the ecliptic and the celestial equator intersect. The vernal equinox, also known as "the first point of Aries," is the point at which the sun appears to cross the Converged Solutions has entered into an agreement to purchase CS e-Sweeper from Clearswift for the London Grid for Learning The London Grid for Learning provides a filtered broadband connection, network services, a common learning platform, online content and support communities for all schools across London. It operates as a consortium of 33 Local Education Authorities. (LGfL) project. The LGfL project will provide high speed Broadband Internet See broadband. connection to over 1 million pupils across 2,700 London schools. Every student, teacher and school will be provided with e-mail, Web space, learning content and collaboration tools A collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed, a piece of paper can for example can be used as collaboration tool. , which will be accessible at school or home. CS e-Sweeper will analyze incoming and outgoing e-mail, allowing schools, colleges and universities in the London area to implement management and security policies to block inappropriate e-mails and comply with legal requirements. CS e-Sweeper is part of the market leading Clearswift MIMEsweeper family of products designed to implement e-mail and Web communications e-policies. Paul Rutherford
"This is the largest CS e-Sweeper order in the product's four-year history, and with up to 1 million users will be one of the largest hosted/managed e-mail service See Internet e-mail service. installations in the world. We are delighted to be working on this project with our partner Equinox, who will provide London's pupils, teachers and schools with a safe, managed high-speed e-mail service." Duncan Crook, chief executive officer, Equinox, said, "The service provided to schools and local authorities via LGfL is unprecedented in terms of scale and sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. . It goes without saying that children must be protected from undesirable content, however control must also extend to protecting school and local authority systems from viral infestation infestation /in·fes·ta·tion/ (-fes-ta´shun) parasitic attack or subsistence on the skin and/or its appendages, as by insects, mites, or ticks; sometimes used to denote parasitic invasion of the organs and tissues, as by helminths. -- whilst ensuring that speed of operation is not negatively impacted. e-Sweeper was evaluated alongside numerous other platforms and proved to be best of breed." Brian Durrant, chief executive of LGfL, said, "The continued success of LGfL will depend on several key factors, of which security is the highest priority. We have asked our supplier to ensure that they use the most robust controls to ensure that unscrupulous or mischievous perpetrators do not disrupt children's education. Once selected by Equinox, e-Sweeper was subjected to extensive testing by an independent test authority and several LEAs on behalf of LGfL -- the result is a comprehensive yet unobtrusive system for controlling undesirable e-mail content." About London Grid for Learning The London Grid for Learning (LGfL) is a project to provide a Broadband Internet connection to all of London's schools. All 33 Local Education Authorities (LEAs) in London are participating in LGfL. The Broadband network has a 19.2Gbps core bandwidth spanning two major core nodes, each configured with 160Gbps switching capacity, going out to schools and to potentially a wide range of other education and local government sites, either via direct connects at 2, 10 & 100mbps or via LEA WAN centres connected at 100mbps to the core. For more information, see www.lgfl.net. About Equinox Converged Solutions Equinox Converged Solutions is a leading U.K. supplier of converged services to the public sector, the publishing, exhibition and conference industry and for multi-tenanted buildings. Equinox owns and operates one of the largest Ethernet Metropolitan networks in the world to deliver a comprehensive range of managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality which include Broadband connectivity and Internet access See how to access the Internet. , URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. filtering, e-mail content control and virus scanning, e-mail hosting, URL filtering, Web site hosting, DNS (Domain Name System) A system for converting host names and domain names into IP addresses on the Internet or on local networks that use the TCP/IP protocol. For example, when a Web site address is given to the DNS either by typing a URL in a browser or behind the hosting, Local Area Network, network management and network security. Through its subsidiary eFORCE, Equinox is the U.K.'s leading provider of electronic communications solutions to exhibitors and conference organizers. For more information, see www.equinoxsolutions.com. About Clearswift Clearswift is the world's leading provider of software for managing and securing electronic communications, with a 23 percent share of the global content filtering See Web filtering and parental control software. market. Clearswift delivers the capabilities for organizations to protect themselves against e-mail and Web-based threats, meet legal and regulatory requirements, implement productivity-saving policies and manage intellectual property passing through their network. The company's expertise lies in establishing and enforcing e-policies. Content security threats include the circulation of inappropriate images and text, Spam and oversize o·ver·size n. 1. A size that is larger than usual. 2. An oversize article or object. adj. o·ver·size also o·ver·sized Larger in size than usual or necessary. Adj. 1. files, loss and corruption of data, breaches of confidentiality, as well as viruses and malicious code. Clearswift's software portfolio includes Clearswift MIMEsweeper, a product family for e-mail and Web e-policies and Clearswift ENTERPRISEsuite, a software infrastructure for managing e-policies in complex environments. More information about Clearswift, its products and services is available at www.clearswift.com. ClearBase, ClearEdge, ClearPoint, Clearswift Enterprise Suite, Clearswift ES, ES Bastion, ES Director Options, ES for Service Providers, ES X.400 Filter, e-Sweeper, MAILsweeper, MIMEsweeper, PORNsweeper, SECRETsweeper and WEBsweeper are all registered trademarks of Clearswift. |
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