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SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 24, 2009 - Cymphonix® today announced that
Lakeview Academy, an independent, college preparatory day school for grades
Pre-K through 12, has installed Cymphonix
Network Composerâ
to help manage network bandwidth and provide visibility into activities taking
place on the school’s network.
Lakeview Academy
prides itself on maintaining a solid network infrastructure operating over 500
computers on campus including laptops and PCs. Recently the school began
experiencing bandwidth issues caused from increased use of educational Web 2.0
content and streaming media in the classroom. It became clear to administrators
that Lakeview Academy needed a solution that would allow them to both manage
and see the Internet traffic crossing its network.
Connie White,
director of technology and media for the school added, “We needed the
flexibility to adjust our policies as online resources become more prominent in
the classroom. Meeting these demands requires a solution that is robust enough
to block students from accessing certain websites but still allows teachers to
utilize the resources provided by these sites in the classroom.”
After learning
about Cymphonix’s Network Composer product line at a local conference, Lakeview
Academy decided to deploy Cymphonix’s Network Composer DC30 on site and
immediately began to see the full value of its investment. Network Composer
helped Lakeview Academy accurately reveal important information on network
usage and application management while providing advanced protection from
inappropriate content and potential threats.
In addition, the solution allowed for bandwidth to be intelligently optimized
by proving the ability to set usage policies for different user groups such as
teachers and students and even scale the amount of bandwidth individual users,
websites and online applications consumed.
“The reporting
capabilities of Network Composer are the real strength of the product,”
commented Bruce Montgomery, Lakeview Academy network administrator. “I’ve seen
a lot of filters but not many packet shapers. After some additional research
and discussions with other schools, we ultimately felt that Network Composer
not only provided content filtering capabilities on par with the competition,
but was quick and easy to integrate into our existing network while provided
superior performance.”
For details on how
Cymphonix provides network bandwidth for business-critical documents and applications
while diminishing recreational Web usage, please visit http://www.cymphonix.com/Solutions.html.
About Cymphonix
Cymphonix
Corporation, headquartered in Salt Lake City, uses award-winning patent-pending
technology to reveal, optimize and automate Internet security. With deep-packet
scanning technology, Cymphonix solutions address the issues created by evolving
content – including web applications and bandwidth-intensive websites. Cymphonix
products seamlessly integrate network protection, application performance, and
traffic visibility into a single, easily managed solution. Leading the
Cymphonix product line is Network Composer, a smart gateway appliance that
helps organizations understand at a glance who is abusing network resources and
with what applications – enabling problems to be corrected instantly through a
clear, easy-to-manage interface. More information about Cymphonix can be found
at www.cymphonix.com.
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