A new NetBox module is now available to support real-time web content filtering to provide versatile web content and bandwidth management. This module provides complete and flexible control over the web experience available to users behind the NetBox. Policies can be applied to prevent access to inappropriate, productivity wasting or potentially offensive web material. These can be flexibly applied to specific times of the day or week and/or to particular parts of the internal network.

The module features a patent pending Content Classification Engine (CCE) which models Internet traffic in real-time as it passes through the network, with no measurable impact on the user's experience. Real-time content classification compliments an extensive database of hand-categorised URLs.

Filtering by content-type (MIME) and file extension is also fully supported. Use of high-bandwidth content including streaming media, audio (MP3) and video feeds and images can be managed to conserve valuable network resources.

To avoid the unnecessary overhead of maintaining enormous local lists of URL classifications, the Web Content Management employs an innovative Classification Retrieval Architecture. Definitive content categorisations, not already locally cached, are fetched automatically as needed from the closest Authoritative Classification Node.

Please contact your NetBox reseller for more information on this module.

The storage journalling used on older NetBoxes has been upgraded to improve robustness.

The Network Monitoring module now contains a host of advanced new querying and graphing capabilities. These features allow you to analyse and visualise your Internet traffic logs in powerful new ways and could be invaluable for a variety of network diagnosis and data billing applications.

Updated help files. Optimisation of mail loop handling.