Optinet(tm) Bandwidth Shaping/Content Filtering

Optinet(tm) from Black Box is an advanced, secure Web gateway appliance that optimizes an organization's Internet connection. Use it to prioritize business-critical traffic and de-emphasize or even eliminate non-critical traffic. It enables bandwidth allocation at the corporate, department, or user level and provides detailed reports on usage, ensuring the best use of available bandwidth. This Layer 7, deep-packet inspection device optimizes Internet use. Benefits include: Allocate more bandwidth to mission-critical sites and hosted applications. Limit non-critical traffic use by specific sites, users, or groups. Deep packet inspection allows management of HTTPS traffic, too. Blocks dangerous anonymous proxies.

More work, less Facebook Shape and prioritize bandwidth and content with Optinet. By allotting more bandwidth to mission-critical sites and applications, Optinet enables you to place precise limits on the amount of bandwidth available to specific applications, users, and groups. Plus it makes it easier to prioritize bandwidth based on specific URLs, domain names, content categories, and MIME and file types. Additionally, get dynamic, real-time multilayer content filtering. Give users access to the content they need with real-time dynamic URL categorization, URL database matching, URL keyword search, and even deep HTLM inspection.

Red light, green light Optinet provides control in three ways: First, it enables application traffic monitoring so you can set appropriate priorities and limits. Second, with Optinet, you'll know exactly how the Internet is being using by your employees. This means you can set appropriate policies and restrictions. Third, detailed reports on user activity, application traffic, Internet threats-and more-give you total visibility and enhance your ability to identify and fix problems.

Internet safety in a new Internet age Protecting your company from existing and continuously evolving on-line threats is a top priority. Optinet complements your firewall. As a deep-packet inspection appliance sitting inline directly behind the firewall, it provides unparalleled visibility into what type of traffic is going through a gateway. It also has the tools to decide what is important and what isn't.

Optinet provides filter avoidance updates and dynamic content analysis that identifies and shuts out dangerous anonymous proxies. Plus, it blocks malware and viruses with advanced database matching and client spyware removal capabilities.

The Optinet software updates it's URL database daily, keeping you abreast of the latest Web sites that could present problems for your network. The automatic updates catalog the latest security threats for you.