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Akonix A6000™ Appliance

The Akonix A6000™ appliance delivers the industry's only all-in-one enterprise-class solution for instant messaging (IM) security and management. The A6000 protects corporate networks from spyware, viruses, worms and other IM attacks; controls access to and enforces policies for public and enterprise IM; and ensures regulatory compliance by logging all IM communications.

The A6000 appliance also scales to satisfy the requirements of any organization size offering both single-server and distributed architecture configuration options with minimal hardware and maintenance overhead.

The Akonix A6000 appliance is a 1-U rack mountable server with 4GB memory and redundant hard drive.

Why Akonix A6000?

  • Easy - preconfigured - up and running in 30 minutes - minimal administration: less than 10 minutes per week
  • Control IM user access and activity with user or directory based permissions
  • Uses advanced protocol recognition technology to block even the most elusive IM applications (such as AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, and ICQ including Web-based clients) and P2P (including eDonkey, IRC, BitTorrent, Kazaa, iMesh, Grokster, Morpheus, and LimeWire)
  • Recognizes and blocks Skype and other common VoIP applications
  • Dynamically updates to protect the network and end users from IM spyware, worms, viruses, and poison URL's
  • Integration: plugs into directory services, AntiVirus engines, andleading email and content archiving systems
  • Supports regulatory compliance of electronic messaging including Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC 17a-3, and Gramm-Leach-Blilley via auditing, data mining, retrieval, and reporting
  • Enforce real-time content filtering for appropriate use of IM
  • Block or allow file transfers, games, video conferencing, and other IM features
  • Passively monitors network traffic with no impact on network performance
  • Secure hardened operating system
  • Scalable, supporting up to 50,000 concurrent users per appliance

A6000 appliances are factory configured with the following features:

L7 Enterprise: An enterprise-class IM gateway used for mediating access to public and enterprise IM, enforcing policies on appropriate IM use; protecting the network and end users from IM-based viruses and attack;, and monitoring and logging all IM conversations.

L7 Enforcer: Delivers perimeter security that detects and blocks unauthorized use of high-risk and evasive public IM and peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) applications on enterprise networks.

AkOS™ Operating System: A-Series appliances, built from the core out, utilize an operating system designed specifically for real-time messaging environments and system security.

Akonix Reporter: Customizable reporting tool provides historical reports on IM usage.

Activity Monitor: A detailed real-time performance focus on IM use within the enterprise. Administrators can launch a series of reports (with easy-to-read charts and tables) highlighting IM performance metrics. This real-time data shows trend lines, visually comparing current usage to historical norms.

Appliance Manager: Allows administrators to easily manage and administer the system , review system logins, audit product and security updates, and manage trace logs.

Database Support: The ability to run the databaseon-box or off-box in order to best fit into existing environments seamlessly without changes to the customer's infrastructure. A-Series appliances come factory configured with a PostgreSQL database.