Carrier-Class NNTP Server Software for Tier 1 Internet Service Providers
Running a high-volume Internet News network is a difficult job. Highwinds' powerful NNTP Server software is dedicated to making that job much easier.
The Highwinds Software Product Line, which includes Cyclone, Typhoon, Twister, Tornado, and Hurricane, is licensed to over 200 ISPs worldwide and is specifically designed to power Carrier-Class NNTP news networks.
Product Summary
Cyclone News Router
The Cyclone News Router is a high-performance, robust Newsgroup routing system suitable for use on news hubs. Cyclone was designed from the ground up with features that make it easy for companies to cost-effectively build and maintain large NNTP Server networks. Cyclone's daily task is transiting NNTP traffic to local News Servers across the world with an average NNTP newsfeed ranging between 45-60 Mbps.
Internet Service Providers utilize NNTP feeds for their own Newsgroup infrastructure and a value add service for customers whom want to provide newsgroup service. NNTP feeds have traditionally been a complimentary product bundled into a dedicated T1 or greater sale. Internet Service Providers recognize greater profits by selling more bandwidth. As stated earlier, an NNTP feed today averages 40-60 Mbps and therefore consumes a significant amount of bandwidth. Therefore an access customer must have at least 40 Mbps just to carry an NNTP feed exclusive of providing additional services for their end user. Pushing NNTP feeds to access customers is a quick way of selling more bandwidth.
The Cyclone NewsRouter provides the standard features you would expect from Newsgroup Server software. In addition, Cyclone has advanced features like quality of service guarantees, network bandwidth preserving redundant feeding, built-in disaster recovery with hot-failover, a customer-facing web-based GUI configuration tool, fine-grained control over feed content, and the ability to take advantage of multiprocessor hardware.
Typhoon News Server
The Typhoon News Server is a general-purpose, high-performance, robust Newsgroup servers designed to manage large numbers of NNTP newsreaders. These servers are designed for high capacity, and have features that make it easy for companies to cost-effectively build and maintain large NNTP networks. Typhoon accepts or rejects NNTP articles from the Cyclone News Router and stores the article on its local database. End users retrieve newsgroup articles from Typhoons Newsgroup database and read/post to topics or forums of interest. Typhoon is the News Server of choice because the server runs at 100% capacity with minimal administration time.
Twister Discussion Server
The Twister Server is a high-performance, robust Newsgroup server designed to manage large numbers of NNTP and HTTP newsreaders. These servers are designed for high capacity, and have features that make it easy for companies to cost-effectively build and maintain large Newsgroup networks.
Twister is a direct replacement for Typhoon and provides all the standard features you would expect from world-class Newsgroup news server software including advanced features like 100% availability in a clustered environment, enterprise-wide article number synchronization, POST filters, fine-grained control over news feed content, and integrated SPAM filtering. In addition to these features, the Twister Server offers ISP-focused advanced features like Virtual Server capability, server chaining, cross-feeding, and powerful program-based authentication, HTTP/Web-based access to Newsgroups, and most importantly BANDWIDTH LIMITING to control the bandwidth consumption from the Newsgroup reading traffic.
Why Discussions or Newsgroups Provide Value
Discussions connect people to people and people to information. With more and more websites popping up each day to sell products, services, or a combination of the two, a great need has been created to keep people glued to the sites, and coming back over and over. The number one way to accomplish this goal, according to most reports, is to provide up-to-date and constantly updated information. The second best way is to provide user communities that drive consumer information and discussion around the items available from the website. Companies are able to use Twister to provide both of these high value services to its customers.
Discussions are another service that most e-commerce sites will rely upon to keep users coming back for information from their site. Discussion groups, as they exist now of the net, either extract the user from the purpose of the site, or place discussion inline with the products or services being brokered on the site. The main problem with how discussions are used currently is the fact that they suffer from lack of participation and from keeping people hooked into the goal of the site. Twister based discussions more easily support services and enable content providers in populating and driving users to these groups by referencing each newsgroup or discussion as a URL that can be plugged into any web page.
Training
Highwinds will offer scheduled training courses on how to optimize the use of Highwinds Software at your company site, please contact us to schedule.
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