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Datasheets

MailChannels Traffic Control

Product Datasheet

MailChannels Traffic Control is our flagship solution for controlling inbound spam traffic. The software is free to try and installs transparently in 15 minutes without any changes to your IP routing fabric.

"Inbound Spam Protection Datasheet" (168 KB)

MailChannels Outbound

Product Datasheet

For service providers, MailChannels Outbound identifies spamming subscribers on your network, and filters port 25 traffic in real-time based on user, not just IP reputation.

"Outbound Spam Protection Datasheet" (221 KB)

Whitepapers

Policy Delegation

Briefing

Learn how MailChannels Policy Delegation offers complete a flexible extension mechanism which allows for the delegation of message handling policy to a cluster of separate policy servers.

"Policy Delegation" (266 KB)

Osterman Research

Whitepaper

"While content filtering techniques will continue to be necessary tools in the fight against spam, more efficient and less CPU-intensive methods must be used to combat growing volumes of spam more efficiently."

"The Advantages of Traffic Shaping to Control Spam" (262 KB)

Case Studies

SherWeb

Case Study

"Traffic Control considerably reduce the number of connections managed by the Barracuda cluster [...] solving the overloading issue that was causing excessive queues..."

"Traffic Control Prevents Delays and Controls Spam" (49 KB)

Cornell University

Announcement

"Traffic Control assists PureMessage, Cornell Information Technologies' anti-spam software, by reducing the amount of spam that Cornell servers have to process."

"CIT News: Traffic Control for Spam" (61 KB)

Sunflower Broadband

Case Study

"Traffic Control reduced the flow of email to the PureMessage server, so much so that I could redeploy the [separate Xeon server for PureMessage processing] for other tasks."

"Traffic Control as Part of a Layered Approach to Email Protection" (45 KB)

Northeastern University

Case Study

"Traffic Control makes countless smart decisions in handling connections and determining which are potentially harmful."

"Traffic Control as Part of a Layered Approach to Email Protection" (49 KB)

Deerfield Capital

Case Study

"Traffic Control was catching stuff sneaking through the back door [...] After installing Traffic Control, only 10-15% [of spam messages] reach the quarantine, while the rest is dropped off during the traffic shaping phase."

"Traffic Control as Part of a Layered Approach to Email Protection" (53 KB)