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Symantec Mail Security 8100 Series

The Symantec Brightmail Traffic Shaper (formerly Mail Security 8100 Series) stops spam before it enters the network—reducing total email volume by up to 70 percent and spam volume up to 80 percent while ensuring the continuous flow of legitimate email. By shaping email traffic at the TCP protocol level, this unique security appliance prohibits spammers from forcing unwanted email into your network. It increases the cost to spammer while helping you increase your bandwidth availability and reduce infrastructure cost. Purchasing
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Key Features

  • Reduces up to 70% overall email volume and up to 80% spam volume
  • A single appliance handles up to 750,000 user accounts and processes thousands of messages a second, depending on message size
  • Unique patented technology that shapes traffic at the TCP/IP level to decrease QOS to spammers
  • Combines with any antispam gateway solution to provide a comprehensive and multi-layered approach to combat spam

Key Benefits

  • Stops spam before it enters the network
  • Reduces mail infrastructure costs such as MTAs, storage, and internal mail servers
  • Reduces operation costs and network overhead
  • Increases bandwidth availability for legitimate email
  • Easy to install, compatible with any messaging server, and operates transparently in the network