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send me an email and i'll just send you the whitepapers. don't worry, I'm in the business of stopping spam not creating it. my email is jhill@cipafilter.com

I neglected to mention, you can of course throttle traffic based on protocol, IP, subnet. We also have Layer 7 packet inspection and all the things one would expect in a device of this type, along with filtering/downloading permissions based on user group if you like (fully integrate with AD, Edirectory, MAC authentication) so if you want teachers to be able to access youtube for whatever reason (random example) but not students, easily doable based on group membership or CIPAFilter can authenticate against it's own database. It all depends on how you want to implement it. (proxy server, firewall, transparent bridge, etc) we can support any configuration and the vast majority of the time, save the district some money and save admins time and effort.

yes, we proxy all traffic through the device itself and have full traffic shaping capability and QoS support

Disclaimer: I am an employee of CIPAFilter. That being said, mod me down if you like, however I feel it is relevant in this scenario so I will attempt to "plug" my wares. Everyone who runs IT for a school district knows that current content filtering systems are seriously lacking. They're entirely dependent upon a website's url/ip being in a giant list of "bad" sites to know whether or not to filter it, simply not an effective way to go about it. CIPAFilter has taken a very different and much more effective approach. The CIPAFilter does not care where a webpage came from, it doesn't even look at the source, it looks at the CONTENT of the webpage, and determines whether or not to filter it based on what it sees. For this reason (and this is another sore point for tech coordinators) the CIPAFilter is not rendered useless by the anonymous proxies that seem to come out by the hundreds every day which students use to access myspace, facebook, etc. CIPAFilter's pornography filter still functions even through a proxy. CIPAFilter has also entirely automated the anonymous proxy detection process, there is no other system that can even come close to our effectiveness against proxies. CIPAFilter has also incorporated everything else a school district needs into one hardware unit (1-U rackmount box). Stateful firewall with full nat support, static routing, a router with full support for advanced protocols, antispam, antivirus, email archiving, full internet usage reporting with the ability to get a complete report on individual users including what they searched the internet for, etc. If this is something any of you admins want to learn more about, I promise we do not use pressure tactics at CIPAFilter, we don't have to. Once we get the information out there, people generally come to us on their own. If you want to learn a little bit more about it I can be reached at 1-800-243-3729 ext. 252, my name is Joe. Or, you can get whitepapers on our technology at www.cipafilter.com Don't be too harsh with your downmodding, as I said, in this instance what I have to say is relevant (I hate spammers as much as anyone but everyone using a CIPAFilter genuinely loves it).

i fail to see the reason for concern