I've been evaluating this product for the last month. I had already tested
the Marshall-8e6 product and in a few days I will be testing the St. Bernard
Software iPrism box.
The biggest problem we had with the Cymphonix was distributing the local
cymdir executable that takes care of the single-sign-on process. The
distribution was fine, but we had some problems and it took us a while to
figure out that we had a problem with our Group Policy Object. All the
while, the Macs behaved just fine.
I like the interface (but don't like that it doesn't yet support Firefox or
Safari). I like the granular reporting and the ease of finding what I need
in the reports without having to wait too long.
I like the filtering and ability to associated filter policies to different
groups and users. I like that there is a web-based login to fallback to if
the SSO is not working (and for non-domain members on the network). I like
the bandwidth throttling, but I haven't really tweaked this yet. I haven't
found any showstoppers.
Right now, I strongly prefer the Cymphonix over the Marshall-8e6 solution.
And, for what it's worth, their initial quotes (for a three year agreement)
were within $100 of each other.
We'll see how the iPrism does...
Christopher
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Christopher Butler
Academic Technology Director
St. John's Preparatory School
http://www.stjohnsprep.org
On 3/25/09 9:47 AM, "Hennel, David" <henneld@notredameprep.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
>
>
> We are looking at Cymphonix Network Composer (www.cymphonix.com) as a
> solution to help shape our internet traffic and maximize our limited
> bandwidth.
>
> Our main goal is to prioritize teachers and educational web use over the
> non-educational web traffic (streaming media ,ect) that is currently
> taking place on campus. Ultimately I would also like to retire my linux
> web proxy (squid) and would look to this device for our content
> filtering as well.
>
>
>
> If anyone has a good or bad experience with this product could you
> please let me know. We are planning on demoing the product if anyone is
> interested I would be happy to give my feedback as well.
>
>
>
> David Hennel
>
> Network Administrator
>
> Notre Dame Prep School
>
> Towson, Maryland
>
> 443-921-2855
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>
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>
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