Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 18:26:29 -0400 From: "Roy Nicholl" <Roy.Nicholl@ASGtechnologies.com> To: "'Jordan K. Hubbard'" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, "'Jon Downey'" <jon.downey@ASGtechnologies.com> Cc: <www@FreeBSD.ORG>, <consulting@ASGtechnologies.com> Subject: RE: Info for inclusion in your pages Message-ID: <000201be1e46$ec2786f0$0264a8c0@lizard.NBTel.net> In-Reply-To: <8737.912632089@zippy.cdrom.com>
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Jordan: Maybe I can the marketing types out a bit here ;) ASG's Professional Services group specialises in two areas: Security -- we provide a full range of security services: audits, risk analysis, policy development, architecture and design (both software and infrastructure), implementation services, etc. Network and Systems Architecture -- ASG provides consulting services to our clients (mostly communications companies) in the design and deployment of large-scale adaptive IP-based infrastructures [some in-house enterprise environments, but most are for service providers]. Typical application / service deployment across these architectures includes: PKI, directory services, e-mail & integrated messaging, VoIP, e-commerce solutions, video delivery, etc. We use FreeBSD extensively both to host our own tools, and as a platform for customer solutions [intrusion detection, central logging, proxy servers, and other fundamental network services such as DNS & Mail] We also have a proxy product which is sold as a service to the education industry. The proxy provides blocking and filtering capabilities for http/ftp/nntp/[soon]SMTP traffic, allowing access to undesirable content on the 'Net to be prohibited. The typical customer is a Provincial, State, or regional Education Department, though we have provided the service to individual schools and campuses, where the deployment of a desktop client-based product [i.e. Net Nanny] would be both economically and administratively infeasible. Though the proxy can be hosted on any UNIX platform [or even NT], we typically provide a FreeBSD based solution; we have found this to yield the best cost / performance. viz. we have a customer who uses four Pentium-Pro 200/256 boxes running our proxy on FreeBSD 3.0 to serve in excess of 20,000 seats. These four boxes process over 1 million http transaction alone per day. At any given time, each of the proxy servers is running between 150 - 250 proxy processes [they are capable of a peak load of ~1K proxy processes each]. For this customer, two servers are quite capable of handling all traffic; the load has been distributed over four servers due to bandwidth limitations in the network [each box rarely breaks a load level of 0.5]. I hope that this helps. Roy > -----Original Message----- > From: Jordan K. Hubbard [mailto:jkh@zippy.cdrom.com] > Sent: December 2, 1998 16:55 > To: Jon Downey > Cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG; consulting@ASGtechnologies.com > Subject: Re: Info for inclusion in your pages > > > It's not immediately clear to me from looking at this web page just > what the FreeBSD connection is, however. Do you offer FreeBSD > consulting services or use FreeBSD in your network solutions? These > are the sorts of questions any user who followed your link from our > page would be asking as well, so if there is some more prominent way > of advertising the tie-in that would make the inclusion of your entry > a no-brainer decision. Thanks! > > - Jordan > > > For inclusion in > > > > http://www.ca.freebsd.org/commercial/consulting.html > > > > <LI><STRONG><A HREF="http://www.asgtechnologies.com">ASG > Technologies' > > </A></STRONG> Professional Service division offers network security > > management products and services. Staffed by experienced > information > > technology and systems professionals, ASG Professional Services has > > in-depth experience in network systems design, integration > and management > > across diverse computing platforms. For more information, please > > phone us at (506) 460-5400, e-mail <A > > > HREF="mailto:consulting@asgtechnologies.com">consulting@asgtec > hnologies.com< > > /A>, or visit our web site at <A > > > HREF="http://www.asgtechnologies.com">http://www.asgtechnologi > es.com</A> > > and follow the Professional Serices Links.</LI> > > > > thanks ! > > > > ~Jon Downey > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Marketing & Communications > > Atlantic Systems Group Inc. > > http://www.AtlanticSystemsGroup.com > > ASG technologies (506) 460-5400 x207 > > Xylaur enterprises (506) 460-5401 >
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