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Provide Cost-Effective, Vigilant Protection
for Families, Students, Employees
Worried about what your kids are finding
on the Internet when you are not around?
This valuable service from 3Com blocks
access to pornographic, prejudicial, and
violent web sites, designed to attract the
innocent and unsuspecting, that abound on
the Internet.
Schools, colleges, libraries, or other public
institutions required by law (such as the
U.S. Child Internet Protection Act) to
protect underage students can safely offer
Internet access without risk of exposing
them to objectionable content. The off-site
service proactively hunts down offensive
web sites and continually updates its data-
base to deliver effective, round-the-clock
protection.
Boost Productivity and Create a Safe
Work Environment
Analysts estimate that U.S. companies lose
up to $3,000 per year per employee due to
non-business-related Internet activity*.
3Com’s comprehensive content filtering
service helps companies enforce acceptable
web usage policies to improve employee
productivity and ensure that Internet
access is used for work-related business.
Organizations of any size can also more
easily comply with state and federal work-
place guidelines to protect their employees
from a hostile workplace environment.
Rely on Comprehensive, Global
Coverage with Top Rated Expertise
3Com has partnered with SurfControl, a
world leader in the web protection field.
Clients such as the U.S. State Department
and NATO rely on their extensive database
and global coverage that includes 9 Million
web sites and 1.7 Billion web pages. Over
35,000 new sites are added to SurfControl’s
database every week. Their global research
teams provide localized protection in 70
languages for over 200 countries around
the world.
Enjoy Easy-to-Use Interface: Sign Up,
Check Off, and Go!
The Web-based subscription service
requires little setup and no administration.
Simply check the boxes in the categories
you want restricted and activate the
managed service! The database is well
organized into 47 clearly identifiable cate-
gories and includes over 130 subtopics. The
service database is located on the Internet,
accessed in real time by 3Com
OfficeConnect firewalls and routers.
Experts Work Hard so You Don’t Have To
The service eliminates the need for you to
download a database and continually add
to an ever-growing list of URLs. Protection
is always up to the minute because the web
service database is constantly tested for
accuracy and completeness by
SurfControl’s team of content experts,
supported by state-of-the-art, automated
tools, and customer submissions. This level
of scrutiny means less support calls and
more productivity and peace of mind.
Cost-Effective, Predictable Expenses
Replace time-consuming, continual update
tasks with a predictable annual service fee
and free you or your staff for productive
activities.
Key Benefits
3Com
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OfficeConnect
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Content Filter
Service for OfficeConnect Routers
• Convenient interface offers simple
check boxes to select web site
categories you want restricted
• Real-time database filtering is
transparent to Internet users;
there is no delay in access time
• Replaces time-consuming constant
manual updates that always seem
“too little, too late”
DATA SHEET
F R E E D O M T O C H O O S E A B E T T E R N E T W O R K
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