Sonar eXtended Filtering (IXF) Appliance Series

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Sonar eXtended Filtering (IXF) Appliance Series

Blue Reef's IXF appliance series provides the full suite of high performance appliances to filter, quota control, and report on your Internet activities in real time.

Overview

IXF - Internet eXtended Filtering Appliance

Sonar™ IXF series addresses the needs of organisation that want to control their outbound content filtering, manage quota management and cache web pages.

Filter content

Filter content differently according to the needs of different users to comply with your duty of care ensuring students can only access appropriate Internet content relevant to their age group

Monitor and report

Monitor and report on all forms of Internet and email traffic including web forums, Google Images™, wikis and social networking sites in real time

Prevent exposure to unsolicited, commercial and inappropriate emails

Prevent exposure to unsolicited, commercial and inappropriate emails with industry leading recurrent-pattern detection anti-spam technology from Commtouch™

Reduce Internet pipe consumption

Reduce Internet pipe consumption by caching repetitive browsing and balancing your traffic across multiple Internet links making the most of your costly Internet services

Measure usage of Internet per user

Measure usage of Internet per user by applying quota and billing controls

Synchronise using LDAP

Synchronise using LDAP to support your group based identity policies in Microsoft™, Novell™ or Mac OS™ environments

IXF Supported Platforms

The IXF Series can be implemented as an appliance, a virtual appliance or as a managed service.

Platforms	Internet Security	Internet Filtering	Internet Mobility
Sonar IXF		*	(optional)

Features

Features of the Sonar IXF Appliance Series

Blue Reef IXF provides all the tools you need to manage extended content filtering, reporting and monitoring.

Authentication & Identity Integration

Authentication (LDAP)
NTLM/NTLM-Terminal Services
Multi-platform agent
Active Directory pass-through authentication
Secure token
Captive portal
Browser (header) based
Ticket-based (temporary access)
IP/MAC address

Internet Filtering

Web filtering proxy
Outgoing mail filtering
Quota management
Billing
Internet caching
Summary reporting
Cyber safety reporting
Statistical page analysis
Page censorship regular expressions
Anonymous proxy rule-based blocker
URL categorisation service
Exception management
MySonar™ self-service reporting

Specifications

Sonar Internet Management Solution Appliance Specifications

Performance Metrics	IXF-500	IXF-1000	IXF-2000

Hardware Physical Dimensions & System Specifications
Operating System	Sonar OS	Sonar OS	Sonar OS
Interfaces 10/100/1000	2	4	6
CPU Cores	2	4	8
Power supply	Desktop	1X345W	1X400W R
Rack Module	Desktop	1RU	1RU
Virtual Appliance Supported Platforms
Supported Hypervisors	VMWare, Citrix XEN
Network Performance Metrics
FW throughput p/s*	500Mbps	1Gbps	2Gbps
Max User Database	1000	2000	3000
Recommended Capacity Planning
Number of Students	100 - 300	301 – 1000	1001 - 3000
Number of Devices *	100 - 150	150 - 800	801 - 1500
Concurrent User **	Up to 100	Up to 350	Up to 600