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Technical specification
Deployment Options
| Soft | Customer can choose to deploy on server hardware of their choice. Support for a wide range of models from Dell, IBM, HP, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Performance will vary based on deployment platform. |
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| Virtualised | Customer can choose to deploy on Vmware. Functionality remains the same as a physical gateway. Performance will vary based on deployment platform. |
| Packaged | Pre-built. Customer chooses size of unit to match their requirements. Customer can mix and match hardware as appropriate to suit required performance. |
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Packaged Hardware Options
| Chassis | Size | Processor | Disks | Memory | Raid | Power Supply | SSD | User count |
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| W200 | 1U | G6950 | 500GB SATA | 4GB | No | 1 | Yes | <200 |
| W500 | 1U | X3440 | 500GB SATA | 4GB | No | 1 | Yes | 200-500 |
| W2000 | 1U | 2 x Xeon 5620 |
3x 146GB 15K RPM
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6GB | RAID 5 | 2 | Yes | 500+ |
*All models feature a separate Solid State Disk which is dedicated for the Proxy Cache feature.
| Models | |
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| Own Hardware or Virtualised deployment | Installed on customers’ own hardware (IBM, HP and others), or as a virtual gateway in VMware ESX / ESXi |
| Scalability | |
| All Models | Up to nine web appliances linked into one common ‘peer’ group |
| N+1 resilience and scalability | By peering an additional support gateway |
| Deployment | |
| Getting Started Guide | 7-Step deployment guide, typical deployment in less than 45 minutes |
| Evaluation Guide | Step by step guide for evaluation of key Clearswift Web Appliance features |
| Key components | |
| Operating system (OS) | Penetration tested, hardened Clearswift Linux |
| User interface (UI) | Web-based UI offering intuitive roles-based management |
| MIMEsweeper™ | Clearswift’s content aware filtering and policy management, reporting, logging and auditing engine with full lexical scanning and lexical expression building |
| URL filter | Comprehensive 84 category URL filter from the world's leading URL filtering vendor |
| Kaspersky anti-virus | Award-winning anti-virus, anti-malware and anti-spyware engine consistently independently verified as one of the leading solutions |
| Anti-spyware | Removes tracking cookies and also detects requests that clickfraud and adware components use when "phoning home" which could signal that a device is infected with spyware or adware |
| Cache | 10GB self managing cache for bandwidth optimisation |