USENET servers and hubs operate using the Internet RFC-977 defined NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol). News systems use NNTP to implement a "flood-fill" algorithm to route news articles.

Using NNTP, news systems offer articles to peer systems. If an article has already been seen by a local system, the article is refused when offered by a remote system. In this way, having multiple interconnected peer news systems promotes reliability and high performance.

USENET traffic at major hubs can exceed 1,000,000 articles per day. This traffic continues to grow at an alarming rate. This has made the task of maintaining a reliable high-performance USENET network increasingly difficult.

The Cyclone NewsRouter is a high-performance, robust USENET news routing system suitable for use on News hubs. Cyclone was designed from the ground-up with features that make it easy for companies to cost-effectively build and maintain large USENET networks.

The Cyclone NewsRouter provides all the standard features you would expect from USENET hub software. In addition, Cyclone has advanced features like quality of service guarantees, network bandwidth preserving redundant feeding, built-in disaster recovery, a customer facing web-based GUI configuration tool, fine-grain control over feed content, and the ability to take advantage of multi-processor hardware.

We at HighWind Software value your comments and suggestions regarding our products and documentation. Yours is the most important feedback we receive. If you have questions or suggestions about our products or documentation, we would like to hear from you.

Please contact our Technical Support Organization by writing to us, or send e-mail to the Internet Address listed below.

		HighWind Software
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		Marlborough, MA 01752

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