Mirapoint Inc. announced at GLOBALCOMM it has strengthened its e-mail security offerings for service providers by doubling its capacity and enhancing its reporting capabilities.
Mirapoint’s Messaging Reporter takes the manual report-generation process and automates it so that it takes seconds instead of days to create an overall report of what the edge security devices are doing. From one location an administrator can gain visibility into e-mail volume and security trends so they can plan and allocate resources accordingly. So, for example, service providers can prepare for increased loads of e-mail, spam and viruses that might overwhelm their current infrastructures, resulting in a service outage and upset customers.
“This is reporting on steroids,” said Craig Carpenter, senior director of corporate marketing and global channels at Mirapoint. He noted Mirapoint always has offered reporting tools, but Messaging Reporter increases the number of reports available and improves the graphical representation. Both enhancements, he said, give service providers the ability to better inform the end users of the state of their networks and to help justify the work done of their behalf.
Mirapoint also has upgraded its operating system for the RazorGate e-mail security appliance so that it processes more than 25 million messages per day. This equates to a 50 percent increase in throughput from the same appliance. “We believe that’s on par with leading solutions, but then when you add our lower cost, Mirapoint has better price performance,” said Carpenter.
Based upon actual usage trials carried out with existing Mirapoint customers, the new RazorGate appliances demonstrated a 50 percent improvement in the throughput of messages running more than 10,000 simultaneous incoming connections with Mirapoint’s RAPID Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam technology. This performance improvement increases to 112 percent with Mirapoint’s MailHurdle functionality turned on. MailHurdle analyzes messages at the SMTP-layer first so that unwanted e-mail is blocked at the network edge. According to Mirapoint, this approach cuts 80 percent of the unwanted traffic before any network resources are wasted processing it.
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