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01/03 CommuniGate Pro Messaging Platform

Transforming and Calendaring

Overview

As e-mail continues to be the preferred method of business “CommuniGate Pro is a feature-rich messaging server that communication, choosing a mature and complete e-mail not only offers superior IMAP, POP3, and SMTP services, server becomes a mission critical decision. Organizations but also provides HTML-based e-mail access, excellent anti- need a robust yet easy to manage solution and reliable tech- spam capabilities, LDAP support, and a state-of-the-art list nical support from the system vendor. According to a report server.” from technology analysts IDC, on an average day in 2000, Internet standard messaging, combined with sophisticated 9.7 billion e-mail messages were sent worldwide. By the collaborative functionality makes CommuniGate Pro an year 2005 that number will grow to 35 billion. ideal solution for organizations looking for calendaring and scheduling on the desktop, or those wanting to replace Making matters more complicated, offering only e-mail is expensive and unreliable messaging environments without not enough. Organizations must offer other services includ- losing end user functionality. ing mailing lists, address books, calendaring and scheduling, look-ups for local and remote account information, secure Web based e-mail, and personal Web sites. Is your messaging infrastructure ready? Proven First released in 1998, CommuniGate Pro is a proven solu- This overview will introduce you to CommuniGate Pro, the tion, with several thousand servers hosting 30 million active carrier scale internet messaging software from Communi- users worldwide. It earned its excellent reputation meeting Gate Systems. the rigorous uptime, security and growth demands of service A review by CNET summed the product up nicely saying provider and telco customers, and continues to build upon

1 01 /03 2 TRANFORMING EMAIL & CALENDARING WHITE PAPER secure corporatesecure messaging andcalendaring environments. end user functionality CommuniGate deploy Pro in their a wide variety ofservices. Enterprises looking for advanced chitecture, CommuniGate Pro isutilized astheplatform for ofitsreliableBecause performance ar- based andstandards users. users, telcos tothelargest serving 300,000–5,000,000 under 30,000users, tomid-size ISPswith30,000-300,000 from smaller enterprises anduniversities installations with nizations ofallsizes. Current implementations range in size that reputation tobecomethesolution ofchoice for orga- relies onmulti-tier loadbalancing andredundancytopro- is asoftwaresolution, running onagroup ofservers, that The unique CommuniGate Pro Dynamic Clustertechnology ing service. ortakenwhere serverscanbeadded off-line affect- without CommuniGate aDynamic Pro Clusterenvironment supports the monitorspractically sectionasthesystem runs itself,” Journal reported, “administrators should rarely needtouse answer. Besides being anextremely stableproduct, asLinux times andcorrupt mailboxes? CommuniGate Pro isthe rescue your administrators system from unscheduleddown- Does your business one-mail? depend Would you like to Reliable Performance motivated tokeep happy.” theircustomers members atCommuniGateends… staff arevery Systems the sameday, sometimes within hours, including onweek- several months, problems“for part areanswered themost the CommuniGate technicalmailing Systems support list for As onereviewer from Journal notedafter monitoring mergers andfinancial difficulties. in wheresomanycompanies anindustry arefocused on ments ofourcustomers, whichisquitearefreshing change That focus allows ustolisten toanddeliver ontherequire- on internet messaging. profitably in operation since 1991, andcompletely focused dows, andMacOSX. We areamatureandstablecompany, platforms including allUNIX flavors, Linux, AS/400, Win- messaging, developing softwarefor over 30 major computer CommuniGate is the technology Systems leader in integrated Mature Company ing systems. Web-based e-mail, andasthebackbonefor wireless messag- telcos CommuniGate use Pro toprovide multi-language, sity in theirstudents’ e-mail clients. The international largest consolidating serversandsupportingthediver- departmental Educational institutions rely onCommuniGate Pro when Virus/SPAM Protection requirements. allowstecture organizations toexceed 99.999%uptime With no-single-point-of-failure, theDynamic Clusterarchi- any service interruption. is installed, itjoins theclusterautomatically, again without the failedareplacementserver or when server isrestored server replacesthefailed thehotstand-by when one. When is no “intermediate” time, like in simple fail-over solutions e-mail continues system toworkinterruption. without There troller itandremoves detects theserver from thecluster. The failure,In theeventofhardware theDynamic Clustercon- busyserver. totheleast directs newrequests The Dynamic Clustercontrols theloadoneachserver and ter work together, processing mail andserving user requests. providers. Allserversin aCommuniGate Pro Dynamic Clus- vide thereliable performance requiredbymodern messaging CommuniGate Pro’s flexible architecture options. You may preferred hardware/operating andtake system advantage of 50 to5million users. areable Customers ontheir todeploy Currently, CommuniGate Pro installations range in size from your business. create anextensible messaging platform thatwill grow with locked into andcan aproprietary system hardware/software ing solution, anopen-standards-based you avoid getting CommuniGate Pro iscompletely standards-based. Bychoos- Scalable legitimate messages. provides flexible mail-relaying options tocontrol routing of in theRealtime (RBLs). BlackholeLists The interface also founding either based oronhosts onIPaddresses hosts messages.or reject Messagescanbeblocked from offend- the administrator toaccept when thesystem caninstruct functionality. Through theintuitive Web interface, based CommuniGate Pro alsohaseffectivebuilt-in anti-spam ability andminimal performance. impact onsystem Network Associates, Sophos, MailShell, etc)toensurescal- andthescanningGate Systems engine companies (McAfee/ muniGate Pro Plugins aredeveloped together byCommuni- “scanning tools” createdbyother mail-server vendors, Com- plugins designed especially for CommuniGate Pro. Unlike various tomanufacture and anti-spamvendors filtering ing. withleading CommuniGate partners Systems anti-virus or outgoing messagesfor virus detectionandcontentfilter- productstoscanallincoming ofthird-party theuse supports how vulnerable e-mail canbe. systems CommuniGate Pro The byrecent damagecaused “worms” andviruses shows

01 /03 3 TRANFORMING EMAIL & CALENDARING WHITE PAPER build external provisioning, monitoring, andbilling applica- Application Program Interface (API)whichallows themto the intuitive Web administration based interface the oruse other tasks. administrators System towork canchoose in are easily administered, allowing your tofocus staff on CommuniGate Pro hasanabundanceoffeatureswhich Easy Administration combinationsystem necessary. when capacity orupgrade toamorerobusthardware/operating level.the necessary Oncein theDynamic Cluster, easily add upgrade reaches demand toamulti-server clusterwhen tobeginchoose withasingle server implementation, then sometimes importantrequirementsare overlooked the most With somanye-mail infrastructure options from, tochoose Sophisticated EndUserFunctionality another. tional licensing feefor moving from oneoperating to system OS platforms in thesameinstallation. There isnoaddi- platformscan switchhardware onthefly, ormix hardware/ If customers’ operating requirementschange, system they resources.easy onsystem for efficient andreliable messageprocessing while still being andmulti-processormulti-threaded environments allowing infrastructure. The server takes fulladvantage ofmodern allowing you toutilize existing hardware/ X, AIX, Cobalt, HP/UX, IRIX, OS/400andLinux for S390, LinuxPPC, FreeBSD, BSDi, Windows, UnixWare, MacOS which allows ustoeasily Solaris, support Tru64, Linux/ on theCommuniGate Foundation Systems Framework, ware orretrain yourstaff. support The productisbased chip soyou sets will notbeforced topurchase newhard- CommuniGate Pro runs onover 30operating and systems Choice ofOperatingSystems complete amigration. toolscanreducethecomplexitythese andtime to needed mailboxes. For organizations moving thousandsofusers, muniGate Pro provides simple toolstoimportusersand To migrating support from another e-mail system, Com- domain. main settings orthecreation ofanewaccountwithin their from staff clientsupport callsrequesting achange in do- own ofadministrators. set This functionality liberates your cal “domain delegation,” whereeachdomain mayhaveits The Web administration based interface hierarchi- supports tions tointegrate withthemessaging server. in Corporate Workgroup theyreceive mode e-mail, arrange advantage ofitsadvanced collaboration features. Working cannow preferonthedesktop takeUsers who Outlook Enabling Outlook in oftheoffi andout ce. , productive, usersstay accessing thesameinformation look’s advanced functionality andafull-featured framework for teamsofpeopletowork together. With Out- The Groupware moduleofCommuniGate Pro provides a Integrated Groupware Eudora, orevenPine. their favorite e-mail client whetheritisOutlook, Netscape, tions, reducingbyallowing costs support your userstokeep ant e-mail clients, webbrowsers, andmanylegacy applica- CommuniGate compli- access byanystandards Pro supports assuming thecustomerexperience isparamount.” suggested “approach thedecision from theuser perspective, ofyour– those endusers. Recently Network Computing the password sent tothemiftheyforget.the passwordsent their vacation messages, passwords orhave andcanreset off your administrator. system Usersalsohavecontrol over rules in awaythatmakestothem, sense taking thatburden user candefine theirown messagefiltering andforwarding To moreefficiently managetheirdaily deluge ofe-mail, each to her personal . while amanager might allow herread-only assistant access each teammember adds, deletes, andupdatesinformation, keting teammight havea ‘marketing contacts’ folder where how others mayaccesstheiraccount. For instancethemar- Within the Web interface, permissions usersset thatdefine Self-Service Account Administration fromcalendars anybrowser, astheywould just withOutlook. nance. Now users can access the same mailboxes, folders and electronic discussions, creation andcontact andmainte- groupwaresecure client, supportingmessaging, scheduling, solely onthedesktop. toOutlook The Webmail interface isa CommuniGate Pro’s groupware functionality isnotlimited Full-Featured Web Client tionality. now utilize itsadvanced calendaring andscheduling func- previouslywho ranin Outlook limited Internet can mode reply in torequests thefamiliar interface. Outlook Users meetings, sharecontacts, accessfree/busyinformation and 01 /03 4 TRANFORMING EMAIL & CALENDARING WHITE PAPER Syracuse University. performed in Network Computing’s Real-World Labs®at e-mail server under extreme loads. Allofthetesting was was gradually increased tomeasureperformance ofeach performing e-mail transactions. The number oftransactions eachsolution withasimulatedthen tested user population was ane-mail for system a250,000-user ISP. The editors e-mail for system a10,000-user corporation andthesecond submit proposals for twofictitious RFPs. The fi wasan rst iPlanet, Critical Path, Rockliffe, Mirapoint andNovell to ing invited including sixvendors CommuniGate Systems, performance contests. For example, Network Comput- CommuniGate Pro hasalsoproven itself in head-to-head www.communigate.com F T Mill Valley, CA94941 HwySuite 275 655 Redwood for your organization. mance make theCommuniGate Prochoice software thebest saging features, scalability, reliability, andunmatchedperfor- We’re surethatyou will find therich ofadvanced set mes- port/cpro.html. cessible from thesiteat: http://www.communigate.com/sup- andtheCommuniGatesupport Pro mailing list arealsoac- at www.communigate.com/download.html. Free pre-sales versions thatyou candownload andinstallfrom our Website zation’s needs. We offer fully functioning, fully supported and evaluate for yourself how well itmeetsyour organi- CommuniGate wantsyou CommuniGate Systems totry Pro And We Agree look folders wasproperly anddisplayed.” stored an Exchange Server. Everything inOut- allofthestandard XP client toaCommuniGate wasconnected Pro server or liant engineering feat…Icouldn’ttell whethermyOutlook muniGate Systems’ interface Outlook isanelegant andbril- Exchange server. The VARBusiness reviewer stated “Com- its potentialasasolutionin tobeused placeofaMicrosoft A recentindependentreview ofCommuniGate Pro, touted Outlook Interface– “Elegant andBrilliant” CommuniGate Proprice/performance hadthebest ratio. functionality requirements” leading that toconclude testers duringhardware theperformance testing andnailed the “CommuniGate Pro worked flawlessly expensive ontheleast benchmarking performed in thelabs. 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