Reliability
Email is a critical component of an ISP’s services to its customers. Yet it is not uncommon for an ISP’s email volume to double or triple in a matter of a few months due to growth in spam traffic – with peak email volume jumping even more dramatically.
The unpredictable and often dramatic growth of junk mail can have substantial impact on an ISP’s network bandwidth, email infrastructure, and support requirements. Whereas mail service primarily involves I/O and disk usage, the accurate detection of email threats is processor-intensive and memory-intensive. Given the computing power required to effectively detect and manage email threats, software-based or appliance-based security solutions often are not sufficiently scalable and have significant risk of failure over time.
A highly-scalable, top-tier infrastructure
As a managed service, Katharion relieves ISPs from the scalability limitations of an internally based solution. Further, Katharion is architected to meet the rigorous load requirements of the most demanding ISP and enterprise customers. Katharion’s software, hardware, and network architecture include the following features:
- Redundant, bi-coastal datacenters
- Fully redundant systems at each datacenter, running in parallel
- Hardened operating systems
- Highly optimized, compiled software components
- Fully atomic, real-time message processing
- 24x7 automated systems and full-path monitoring from multiple locations
The result is a highly reliable defense against email threats, with no single point of failure and with the scalability to accommodate the growth or spikes in message volume that are increasingly common for ISPs.
Next: Read about Katharion’s management features.
