Why
should you use Gate-and-Way ?
Even if you don't know
Linux at all, you can install and configure it using the
Gate-and-Way Setup and the Gate-and-Way Control Panel.
Client users do not have
to learn anything new:
- they continue to
use their favourite e-mail clients (Outlook
Express, Pine etc.) to view e-mail and faxes
together
- they simply print
on a special Windows printer to send faxes.
- they continue to
use their favourite browser to surf the web.
Because of the power of
Linux, you will never see the message "This program
has generated a general protection fault and will be
terminated" again.
The integrated firewall
will block any attack from the internet.
You can configure some
different redundant internet connections, so if your ISP
is having problems and can't give you access to the
internet, you can choose another one to have a temporary
connection without having to change any configuration on
the clients.
The Backup 7/7 module
can retrieve data from any PC on the LAN. Every day will
have its separate backup. You will never lose any data
due to hard disk crashes on the client side.
At the server side you can also install a software RAID
subsystem, so hard disk crashes will never be a problem
again. The Gate-and-Way Control Panel can also inform you
if some kind of problems appear on the server's RAID
system.
You have full control
over the server operation and all the tools you need to
monitor it.
The Shared Folders allow
all the users on the LAN to quickly retrieve any
messages/faxes.
Internet e-mail can be
routed to local mailboxes. Any user can simply browse his
local account instead of connecting to the internet and
waiting for the downloading of his messages.
A local user can send
e-mail with attachments to other local users, even if the
latter are out of the office.
Any user can send a fax
simply printing his document on a special Windows
printer. The fax server will manage all incoming and
outgoing queues and the users no more have to wait in
front of the fax machine.
The internal SMTP server
allows you to quickly send emails from any enabled client
without caring whether an internet connection is up or
which ISP is giving you access to the Internet. Large
messages will be queued in a flash. The first time
Gate-and-Way connects to the Internet, it will deliver
any queued messages to their addressees.
Internet e-mail can be
fetched from the Internet and stored in the local
mailboxes.
Internet connection can
be automatically started when the server is powered on
and stopped when it is powered off.
The autoresponder will
answer incoming voice calls playing the message you
recorded and chose for that time. It starts and stops
automatically when time changes.
Every day Backup 7/7
will make copies of your server's data and, if you want,
of the client PC's too.
The Server Operating
System is as cheap as Linux. You don't have to spend
large amounts of money to buy licenses for the server
Operating System and related clients.
There are not particular
hardware requirements for the clients, so you can
probably reutilize old hardware without problems.
You can use only one
account with your ISP to have all the users on the LAN
surfing the web.
If you pay your internet
connection depending on the length of the connection, you
can configure Gate-and-Way to fetch all the users' e-mail
together from the internet instead of letting them do
this separately. This may result in a great saving on
telephone costs.
All this can be done
locally using any PC on the LAN or remotely, if you are
out of the company, using the Remote Access module
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