Symantec Brightmail Traffic Shaper

Symantec Brightmail Traffic Shaper Overview

The Symantec Brightmail Traffic Shaper (formerly Mail Security 8100 Series) stops spam before it enters the network—reducing total email volume by up to 70 percent and spam volume up to 80 percent while ensuring the continuous flow of legitimate email. By shaping email traffic at the TCP protocol level, this unique security appliance prohibits spammers from forcing unwanted email into your network. It increases the cost to spammer while helping you increase your bandwidth availability and reduce infrastructure cost.

The Symantec Brightmail Traffic Shaper reduces total email volume by up to 70 percent and cuts spam volume by up to 80 percent or more. The Symantec Brightmail Traffic Shaper controls spam volume before it enters the network while ensuring the continuous flow of legitimate mail. This significantly reduces administrative overhead, network bottlenecks, and reduces mail infrastructure costs. Symantec offers one of the only appliances that shapes email traffic at the TCP layer prohibiting spammers from forcing mail into a protected network. It is highly scalable and easily meets the needs of service providers and large enterprises and can be coupled with any antispam gateway solution, including Symantec Brightmail Message Filter or Symantec Brightmail Gateway, to provide a comprehensive multi-layered approach to combat spam, and at the same time is easy to deploy and manage.

Feature and Benefits:

Key Features:

• Reduces up to 70% overall email volume and up to 80% spam volume
• A single appliance handles up to 750,000 user accounts and processes thousands of messages a second, depending on message size
• Unique patented technology that shapes traffic at the TCP/IP level to decrease QOS to spammers
• Combines with any antispam gateway solution to provide a comprehensive and multi-layered approach to combat spam

Key Benefits:

• Stops spam before it enters the network
• Reduces mail infrastructure costs such as MTAs, storage, and internal mail servers
• Reduces operation costs and network overhead
• Increases bandwidth availability for legitimate email
• Easy to install, compatible with any messaging server, and operates transparently in the network

Specification:

System Requirements:

Symantec Brightmail Traffic Shaper appliances are integrated, self-contained security devices, and as such do not have software and hardware system requirements.

Component Details
Browser Management of the appliance is via a secure Web connection.

Supported Browsers

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
• Netscape 7.1
• Mozilla Firefox 1.0 and above

Documentation:

Download the Symantec Brightmail Traffic Shaper Datasheet (PDF).