SparkEngine Mail Transport Platform™
Business Benefits
- Enables innovative uses of email for marketing and service
- Supports current and future business requirements
- Improves delivery performance
- Lowers operational costs up to 70%
- Provides powerful management visibility and analytics
- Interoperates with existing enterprise systems
- Facilitates automatic documentation for policy compliance
- Establishes reliable, efficient delivery of critical communications
- Supports differentiated capabilities for different business units
Operational Benefits
- Centralizes email operations
- Consolidates and enables policy management
- Massive scalability
- Carrier-grade email processing and delivery performance
- Open architecture for optimum flexibility and future proofing
- Rapid and differentiated services provisioning
- High availability and true cluster management
- Real-time mail flow monitoring and alerting
Platform to Modernize Legacy Email
The legacy technology used to deliver and route email for all of today’s network systems and applications is based on the Simple Mail Transport Protocol's (SMTP) Mail Transport Agent (MTA), which was invented in the 1980s to relay email between servers and through processing applications. MTAs like Sendmail and Postfix use a simple hub-based architecture that becomes strained by adding services such as anti-virus, anti-spam, encryption, archiving, policy management, transactional systems, and email-based applications such as customer relationship management and direct marketing.
The SparkEngine is a next-generation email transport platform that architecturally shifts from the legacy MTA hardware-intensive matrix of serial processes to a scalable, open, integrated, and efficient system for email transport and processing, services, and applications.
Features
Performance
The SparkEngine platform provides the fastest email delivery and processing available. It can deliver 2-4 million emails per hour on generic hardware.
Extensible Open Platform (APIs)
The SparkEngine offers a comprehensive suite of application program interfaces with the most extensive options for integrating third-party services, custom applications, and supporting local business and operational systems. The SparkEngine includes four API’s, two web-services interfaces, multiple mail injection options, numerous logging options, and hooks for enterprise management tools.
Service-Oriented Email Networking™
With its innovative architecture and powerful management tools, the SparkEngine enables separate services, policies, service levels for different streams of mail traffic (“Lanes of Traffic”). SparkEngine enables enterprise IT organizations to support a Services Oriented Architecture approach to providing and provisioning email network services.
Policy Acceleration
The SparkEngine has a powerful Rules Based Messaging Routing capability to flexibly apply business logic to email traffic and specify resulting actions.
Centralized Management
The SparkAdmin management console provides clear insight into the network with fine grained control and customization capabilities. Changes to email functionality are made from one centralized location rather than having to update individual network appliances.
Authentication and Trust
The SparkEngine allows enterprises to establish trust and secure delivery for email with advanced capabilities for authentication (DK, DKIM), TLS (transport layer security), certification and reputation. Functions extend to differentiated services under policy rules and include unique enterprise management (including key management) in the SparkAdmin.