Akonix Systems, Inc.

Akonix A-Series appliances are the leading IM Management Appliances in the world. Factory configured with L7 Enterprise and L7 Enforcer – the IM security products chosen by more customers than the next two competitors combined – the A-Series appliances provide archiving, security, and risk management for instant messaging use in the workplace.
• A6000 appliance for enterprise and large organizations (500 seats to unlimited)
• A1000 appliance for small and medium business (25 to 1000 seats)
• 1U rack mount security appliances
• Intel processors
• AkOS™ -- hardened operating system developed by Akonix
• PostgreSQL database onboard for easy evaluation
• Sophos Anti-virus
• L7 Enterprise and L7 Enforcer factory installed
• Learn more at www.akonix.com/products

Akonix L7 Enterprise™ provides risk and policy management including archiving, security, content-filtering, directory integration and screen name mapping for employee use of public and enterprise IM networks. L7 Enterprise delivers 360° Security for Real-Time Communications – the only protection available anywhere with detection, protection, and containment layers for securing IM for corporate use.

Exceptional policy management allows administrators to apply and enforce policy by employee ID, group, type of service, and type of application, and to set customized alerts, blocking, and reporting.

L7 Enterprise on A-Series appliances is certified to manage IM traffic on the AOL Instant Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger), and Yahoo! Messenger networks. See www.akonix.com/networkcertification to learn more about this important distinction, and why not to purchase uncertified products for IM management.

A-Series appliances running L7 Enterprise and L7 Enforcer provide complete out-of-the-box integrations with the following technologies typically in use at corporations of all sizes:

IM Networks
• AOL Instant Messenger
• Google Talk
• Windows Live Messenger
• MSN Messenger
• Yahoo! Messenger

Directory Integration
• LDAP
• Microsoft Active Directory
• IBM Domino
• Novell eDirectory

Enterprise IM Systems
• IBM Lotus Sametime
• Jabber XCP
• Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
• Microsoft Live Communications Server
• Reuters Messaging

Message Archiving
• C2C ArchiveOne
• CA Message Manager
• EMC EmailXtender
• Fortiva
• Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archives
• HP RISS
• Intradyn
• Iron Mountain
• Quest Software
• Symantec Enterprise Vault
• ZANTAZ Digital Safe

P2P Control
• Skype
• BitTorrent
• eDonkey
• FastTrack
• Gnutella
• Open Napster