modusGate™ mBlade Email Gateway Appliance
High capacity Corporate Email Gateway Appliance for Large Businesses
The mBlade™ is Vircom’s definitive email gateway appliance for enterprise and carrier-grade requirements. Designed for high traffic and stringent security requirements, it provides the best reliability, performance and capacity on the market. The mBlade™ handles up to 17 million messages per day and is the ideal Email Security solution for Enterprises and Carrier-Grade providers.
Enter the mBlade™
The standard mBlade™ packs two Intel® Xeon 5130 2 Ghz Dual Core Processors, 4 hot swappable SATA drives and 16 GB DDR2 RAM, making it our fastest and most powerful email security solution - capable of out-performing competitors that cost far more. Built-in RAID 5 configuration, along with hot swappable and redundant components ensures data integrity.
An expandable appliance, the mBlade™ can support up to 8 SATA drives, two Quad Core Processors, and up to 32G DDR2 RAM and RAID 0, 1, 5 or 10.
Backed by Vircom’s award-winning modus™ technology, the mBlade™ is a robust turnkey email security appliance, providing the best reliability, performance and capacity on the market.
Vircom’s mBlade™ delivers unrivaled anti-spam technology and fully integrated anti-virus engines providing complete threat protection.
Position yourself for unparalleled protection with an easy to manage, scalable and high performing solution that protects all aspects of your email infrastructure – Vircom’s mBlade™.
Email Gateway Appliance powered by modusGate™ email security software
Vircom’s email gateway appliances are specifically designed to provide the best performance out of our award-winning Email Security software platform.
- Industry-leading, proven performance - over a decade of results to back our claims!
- Official Microsoft® Certified Gold Partner – Complete Windows® compliance for your data center
- Industry-leading content management and intelligent pattern detection
- Sequential Content Analyzer - SCA™ – predictive technology to thwart zero-day attacks
- Sieve-based full featured scripting engine for restriction-free policy management
- End-user security options and quarantine management
- 3 levels of granularity for maximum customization of all user & administrative settings
- Leverages standard email clients, such as Microsoft® Outlook - No end-user training required
- Complete inbound & outbound email scanning
- Vircom backs its products with specialized research & development
- Vircom’s security team provides real-time spam and virus definition updates, with no customer involvement
- Unique PlatinumPlus® plan, a value-added professional services offering, provides complete system optimization, monitoring, and online back-ups – Administrators are able to reduce their task overhead and increase their productivity.
- Easy to install, configure, and use: most installations require less than 10 minutes!
Specifications Summary
| modusGate™ mBlade™ Appliance | |
| Number of domains | Unlimited |
| Number of users/mailboxes | 15,000 |
| Throughput (1) | Handles up to 17 million messages/day |
| Operating System | Microsoft® Windows 2003 Server with SQL Server 2005 Express |
| CPU & Chipset | 2 x Intel Xeon Dual Core 5130 2.0 Ghz Processor 1333 Mhz Front Side Bus Intel 5000P chipset 4 x Intel Pro/1000 Gigabit Ethernet NICs onboard |
| System Memory | 16G DDR2 SDRAM 8 DIMM Sockets can support up to 32G DDR2 memory |
| Disk Storage | 4 x SATA 146G 15K RPM Hot Swappable Hard drives in RAID-5 |
| Redundant Disk Array (RAID) | On-board RAID 0,1,5,10 |
| Hot Swappable Drives |  |
| Power supply | 700W redundant hot-swap 100/240V AC power |
| Redundant Power supply | |
| Hot Swappable Power supply | |
| Rackmount chassis | 2U |
| Dimensions (in./cm) | 16.8” x 3.5” x 25.6” (42.7 x 8.9 x 65 cm) |
| Power consumption | Idle: 271 W Max: 395 W |
| Back Panel Interface | 4 x USB 2.0 interface 4 x GigE ports 1 x Keyboard Port 1 x Serial Port 1 x VGA Port 1 x DVD 8x/ CD DVD ROM 24x Drive |
| Warranty | Standard warranty includes same-day replace and repair service Extended warranties available |
(1) Throughput with aggressive connection-level blocking. Numbers will vary depending on enabled options.
