Rocket Total Traffic Control

Overview

The Lightspeed Rocket, Total Traffic Control is a complete solution for managing your school network’s usage, safety, and security—built on a powerful appliance that allows you to get up and running quickly, maintain speed and reliability, and customize the solution with granular controls. The Lightspeed Rocket, Total Traffic Control is pre-installed with our customizable software, delivering a complete, time-saving solution for your school network.

The Rocket, Total Traffic Control is a powerful, warrantied appliance combined with our component award-winning network solutions:

Web Access Manager - Ensure safe web browsing with customizable filtering and features for safe Web 2.0 access.
Email Manager - Archive and report on communications, while blocking spam.
Security Manager - Block viruses, spyware, and malware with desktop and gateway security.
Network Traffic Manager - Control traffic with bandwidth management.
Power Manager - Manage energy use with automated power management. (optional add-on)

You'll also get:

• Comprehensive reporting
• Granular controls
• A powerful appliance with a 5-year advance-replacement warranty
• Unmatched, knowledgeable, live-person service and support

Learn about the features of Rocket, Total Traffic Control

Features

The Lightspeed Rocket, Total Traffic Control provides powerful, easy-to-use features for filtering, securing, managing, and optimizing your school network:

• Tiered administration lets you delegate tasks and authority
• Powerful, customizable reporting gives you actionable information about your systems, and allows you to automatically run and distribute reports
• Easy implementation gets you up and running quickly, while ease-of-use ensures that the solution delivers ongoing results without an additional burden on network staff
• More than fourteen proven lines of defense for blocking spam
• Compliant email archiving with controlled end-user access
• CIPA-compliant Internet filtering
• Comprehensive and accurate, education-specific URL filtering database with more than one billion entries
• Advanced proxy detection and blocking for better AUP enforcement
• Bandwidth management through limiting and prioritizing capabilities
• Comprehensive virus database with automatic updates provides antivirus protection
• Guide Mobile Filter provides cross-platform mobile filtering and reporting on off-network activity
• The Educational Video Library allows teachers to share approved YouTube videos with students
• NEW! My Big Campus offers safe access to Web 2.0 tools, including a Resource Library to post, view, and share online resources as well as a Collaboration site
• A powerful appliance with a 5-year advance-replacement warranty

	Standard	Redundant
CAPACITY
Throughput (/sec)	45 Mb	45 Mb
HARDWARE
Rackmount chassis	1U	1U
Dimensions (WxHxD in.)	16.8 x 1.7 x 22.6	17 x 1.7 x 25.6
Failover NIC	1 Gb	1 Gb
Power supply	Single	Dual hot swap
Storage	Single drive	4 hot swap RAID 10 drives (total 500 GB)

Learn about the reporting capabilities of Rocket, Total Traffic Control

Reporting

The Rocket, Total Traffic Control gives you access to comprehensive information about who, when, where, and how your network is being utilized, so you can adjust Acceptable Use Policies, change allowed usages, review problems and troubleshoot issues, and plan for ongoing needs. You can see high-level overviews, and then drill down for detailed information, with reports like:

• Busiest Protocols
• Top Network Users
• Blocked Content
• Search Engine Queries
• Suspicious Search Engine Queries
• HR Report (Activity by User)
• Mail Traffic Chart
• Traffic by Category
• Computers: Hardware
• Computers: System Information
• Computers: Software Inventory

Learn more about our reports

Learn about the benefits of the Rocket, Total Traffic Control

Benefits

The Lightspeed Rocket, Total Traffic Control offers valuable benefits to schools that need a comprehensive solution for filtering, managing, securing, monitoring, and optimizing their networks.

Helps you set and enforce Acceptable Use Policies.
The Rocket, Total Traffic Control makes it easy to create rules for use of network computers, mail servers, and web browsing. It also provides comprehensive reporting to alert you to potential breaches to those policies, and helps you correct or amend rules.

Keeps your users safe and your network secure.
With spam blocking, Internet content filtering, and virus protection, you can ensure that your users, and your network, aren’t exposed to harmful content.

Provides an easy-to-install and easy-to-update solution
The Rocket, Total Traffic Control makes it easy to get up and running quickly, with pre-installed software; and easy to stay up to date, with automatic product updates.

Keeps your network running smoothly.
The Rocket, Total Traffic Control allows you to ensure the availability of critical services by giving you an easy-to-understand overview of network usage—and by providing you with the tools to manage traffic issues and bandwidth allocation.

Balances learning and security.
Our solutions promote a balance between learning and security by offering safe, easily-managed ways to access Web 2.0 tools and resources, share online resources, and engage in participatory learning.

Blocks security breaches.
The Rocket, Total Traffic Control gives schools network security and antivirus protection though a comprehensive database of viruses and malware detects known threats, while customizable program permissions allow you to stop even unknown threats—before they harm your network.

Allows you to conform to federal regulations.
The Rocket, Total Traffic Control blocks offensive or harmful web content, and archives all email, helping you effortlessly meet federal CIPA and e-discovery regulations.

Offers flexibility and customizability.
Because every school is different, we give administrators the ability to adjust policies and databases on a granular level that ensures over-blocking and rigid restrictions don’t hinder your users’ ability to do their jobs effectively.