1. Why should I buy an appliance?
Appliances appeal to a large variety of datacenter operations because they are low risk, highly deployable, and cost effective solutions.

• Security-- Security is a core requirement of appliances. The operating system has been hardened, optimized, and reduced to a single purpose solution. Though software-only solutions are also deployed on the network perimeter, these custom installations have to be hardened and tested. With MailFrontier Appliance, this process is eliminated.
• Rapid Deployment – MailFrontier Gateway Appliances are deployed in minutes. There is no need to install a keyboard, monitor, or mouse.  Follow the “Read Me First” guide and in four simple steps, your MailFrontier Appliance is ready.
• Single Purchase – Your MailFrontier Appliance is a single purchase covering all of your email security needs. 
• One Call Support – With just a single purchase for all of your email security needs, there is also only one support call to make. MailFrontier makes this enterprise solution easy and time saving by offering full support for the Appliance.

2. What are the appliance specifications?

• MailFrontier Gateway Appliance M500 is built for small to medium enterprises.
• MailFrontier Gateway Appliance M1000 is an enterprise solution for medium to large enterprises.
  
  

  SPECIFICATIONS M500 M1000 Processor 3.2 GHz 2 x Intel Xeon – 3.0 GHz Cache 1 MB 2 MB each processor FSB 800 MHz 800 MHz Memory 1 GB SDRAM 2 GB Dual Channel SDRAM Raid Level 1 Level 1 Drives 2 x 80 GB 2 x 146 GB Hot-swappable Ethernet 100/1000 MB 100/1000 MB Scanned messages per hour 50,000 100,000 Interface / Web administration Yes Yes

  
  

3. What is the underlying hardware and operating system (OS)?
MailFrontier Appliances are standardized on IBM xSeries hardware and run on an optimized and hardened Microsoft® Windows® 2003 server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 operating system.