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Overview
Protect your Internet
subscribers
Nowadays there is tough competition between
the Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Local
ISPs struggle to compete with the large
international ISPs to attract subscribers in
a market where price is the main
differentiator. There is a limit how low the
price can be and yet survive.
One way to gain a competitive edge is to
demonstrate for existing and potential
subscribers a proactive and professional
approach against the perils of the Internet.
Norman offers ISPs a method to secure their
customers. NVCNet for ISPs is an email
scanning solution that scans subscriber’s
incoming emails at the ISP site before they
reach the subscribers, and thus enables the
ISP to scan and clean emails for malware, or
scan and warn the subscriber that an email
is infected, etc.
What is NVCNet for ISPs?
One of the problems ISPs face with antivirus
applications is that their email solutions
are very often based on bespoke code running
on non-Intel platforms, or that they run a
number of solutions on different platforms
like UNIX, Linux, NT etc. With the NVCNet
for ISP, ISPs can now implement antivirus
scanning on their email solution using the
Norman NVCNet technology. It is based on a
NT/2000 server application on a separate
server that communicates over TCP/IP with a
platform independent client application
running on the email server. This gives a
fully flexible, platform independent,
redundant and load-balanced solution. Since
the client just transfers a token (fragment)
instead of the full file to the server where
the scanner resides, the process also has
very little impact on bandwidth usage and
CPU performance. In addition the NVCNet
solution can be tailor-made to meet any
specific ISP’s need for an antivirus
solution.
Key features
of NVCNet for ISPs
System
Requirements
Server
platforms
The NVCNet server software requires a
Microsoft Windows 2000 - Server system with
20 Mb free disk space and at least 512 Mb of
memory. A standard NVC5 software license is
required and must be installed and updated
before the NVCNet server is installed.
There are no minimum requirements regarding
the server CPU speed. However, a faster CPU
will allow the server to perform virus
scanning faster and/or serve more clients
simultaneously with a reasonable service
time.
Client
platform
The client API is available as portable
example C code. The only requirement of a
client platform is that it is connected to a
network via a TCP/IP connection when the
scanning is to be performed.
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