Total Traffic Control

Overview

Total Traffic Control is the complete solution for managing your school network’s usage, health, and security. With this comprehensive solution you can monitor user activity, ensure Acceptable Use Policies are being followed (on email, the Web, or the desktop— both on the network and off), reduce dangerous and costly security threats, ensure school resources are utilized safely and effectively, and easily view and share critical information with custom reports.

Total Traffic Control brings together our component solutions into a single, comprehensive cost-effective, time-saving solution:

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)

Learn about the features of Total Traffic Control

Features

Lightspeed 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
• Ability to accommodate even the heaviest traffic loads, up to 1 GB of Internet bandwidth, without hindering performance
• 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

Learn about the reporting capabilities of Total Traffic Control

Reporting

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
• Mail Traffic Chart
• Traffic by Category
• Computers: Hardware
• Computers: System Information
• Computers: Software Inventory
• Instant Messaging

Learn more about our reports

Learn about the benefits of Total Traffic Control

Benefits

Lightspeed 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.
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 network running smoothly.
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.

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

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.
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.
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.