N-PLEX HUB The Hub for Multiprotocol Messaging Systems N-PLEX Hub is ISOCOR’s high performance, multiport gateway solution for interconnecting common e-mail and messaging systems within an organization. N-PLEX Hubs also interconnect across local or wide area networks to provide a transparent, controlled and distributed solution for large organizations. They may also be used individuatlly for medium-sized business. In both cases, full remote installation, configuration and monitoring can be maintained from a central site via N-PLEX Hub’s integrated Management Center. As part of the N-PLEX family of products, N-PLEX Hub can also be integrated with Internet or X.400 message servers as well as many other ISOCOR and third party products to provide a complete solution for most messaging problems. An Ideal Solution for Expanding Organizations Messaging, including e-mail, reliable document transport, and directory services, is no longer simply convenient - it is a mission critical application. N-PLEX Hub is designed to meet the needs of rapidly expanding organizations. N-PLEX Hub provides the integration necessary to creat an organization-wide messaging system when IT managers in different locations (possibly even in different countries!) have chosed their departmental mail systems independently. Interconnecting all of these feature-rich applications with independent gateways typically makes life a nightmare for system administrators. Support staff are often run ragged supporting a range of gateways rom different vendors and ensuring all the local address books are kept up to date. In addition, Internet connectivity is becoming mandatory for most organizations, and connection to public X.400 mail services is also required in many parts of the world. What is clearly needed is a single solution with rich gateway functionality, high levels of performance and reliability, and capabilities that ease administration problems: rules-based address mapping, automatice synchronization of disparate address books, centralized remote management and remote installation. N-PLEX Hub is that solution. Maximizing Return on Investment N-PLEX Hub provides a centralized management tool for all messaging needs throughout the entire organization, slashes administrative costs and enables you to get the most out of your existing investment. Product features include: A single GUI-based Management Center for the entire messaging backbone architecture Remote management of all system components Remote installation Growing the Organization As an organization grows, messaging becomes more and more mission-critical. With a steadily growing number of applications available on the market, connecting users and their applications in an easy and cost-effective way is vital. Scalability is a key feature of the N-PLEX Hub design. It handles your current needs and enables you to deal with any guture expansion by adding support for additional post offices or other connectors for IT departments which have already opted for different messaging systems. N-PLEX Hub provides you with core functions which transform and unify your electronic messaging network: Advanced management via centralized and remote configuration and installation using the ISOCOR Management Center Fully automated Directory Synchronization Message Relay, using a messaging backbone connecting corporate intranets by means of multiple N-PLEX Hub systems. Connectors for various proprietary mail systems Connectivity to Internet SMTP Messaging and X.400 valut-added networks N-PLEX Hub Benefits N-PLEX Hub provides a wealth of benefits including: Lower costs. With the superior functionality of the ISOCOR Management Center, there is no need to tie down highly skilled people in ALL of your locations. A single person can hangle corporate intranets of any size, freeing local IT staff to do more productive work. Local proprietary mail systems will still need to be natively configured, but all of your cross-company intranet requirements are covered. Adaptability and ease-of-use. The connectors for cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and SMTP and X.400, are easy to set up and can be used straight out-of-the-box, or can be customized and fine-tuned to suit your organization’s needs. Improved performance and manageability are achieved in a way that is transparent to users; all the end users notice is that they can now reliably communicate with different e-mail systems. Simplicity. With the Directory Synchronization options, not only are all your conpany’s internal users of different messaging systems automatically updated into each of the native address bookds, but your entire corporation can appear as a single domain in the Internet community without having to reflect a subdomain architecture for each of your deployed legacy e-mail systems! Larger organizations working with conventional methods often need to maintain a subdomain architecture which reflects the internal messaging environments when connecting to the Internet. N-PLEX Hub allows you to get all of your corporate users into one flat SMTP domain regardless of which native e-mail system they are actually connected to. The benefit is that your employees and customers can easily understand your addressing schema. Should your users move from one internal mail system to another, there are no modifications needed on your business cards or corporate letterhead. Address Mapping for Almost Any Situation N-PLEX Hub connects a variety of well-established proprietart and open e-mail systems. The biggest challenge in integrated messaging is translating address information from one format into another, while simultaneously keeping the complexity away from the recipients, so that they see only a single, transparent messaging environment. N-PLEX Hub provides advanced address mapping, including: Rules-based domain address mapping Uni- or bi-directional mappings One-to-one address mappings N-PLEX Hub covers the entire range of e-mail address conversion possibilities. N-PLEX Hub also comes with preconfigured rules that cover 95% of addressing practices at typical customer sites. Whether you use “Clark, Joe” or something more complex such as “Joe X. Clark (Factory Manager)”, you can be sure you get sensible and returnable mapping. Cases not covered by preconfigured rules can have customer-defined rules adapted to handle them, or may simply be dealt with as exceptions by one-to-one mappings. Your users also want to be able to send messages to users on different systems — in particular the Internet — withouth having to bother the administrator to set up Internet addresses, using a technique called “blind-addressing” or “business card addressing,” is also fully supported by all N-PLEX Hub connectors. The ability to transport documents of any size and type is also vital. N-PLEX Hub supports multimedia document exchange of any type, size and number of documents between all the connected e-mail systems. You can also backbone any kind of information between multiple N-PLEX Hub servers shile maintaining all the original messaging information. Managing Address Book Synchronization Filtering capabilities are important to a well-constructed Directory Synchronization system. For example, the address books maintained on your existing messaging systems may include a set of local customer addresses that you may want synchronized to other offices in the same region, but not to worldwide headquarters. The N-PLEX Hub Directory Synchronization options provide an address book synchronization mechanixm that allows for all systems to fine-tune filters by specifying lists of recipients to be included in or excluede from distribution for ease of management. Asymmetric address book synchronization means that information updates can be allocated between a number of e-mail systems, so that different parts of an organizational unit are updated appropriately in specific e-mail system address books. Address book synchronization is mediated by the Global Directory Server (GDS) which maintains a database of addresses for the entire network. The database may be centralized on one GDS server at a central location or may be distributed over several GDS servers at the same or different locations. GDS provides an efficient replication mechanism to provide increased performance and reliability and to minimize intersite directory synchronization traffic. Compatible Products N-PLEX Hub is compatible with other members of the N-PLEX product family. N-PLEX Enterprise, N-PLEX Global and N-PLEX Office can also be used to support directly connected Internet Mail clients using POP3 and IMAP4. They are completely compatible and can be installed, configured and monitored via the same ISOCOR Management Center as N-PLEX Hub. Maximize Your Investment with ISOCOR Messaging Experts ISOCOR’s aim is to efficiently integrate your messaging needs into a global solution. We have cultivated a team of skilled experts who can optimize the solution to your messaging requirements. Regardless of what type of LAN based e-mail systems you have, the ISOCOR Professional Services team and our intensively trained team of resellers will help you analyze the needs of your organization as you take your business communication infrastructure into the millenium and beyond. Ordering Information PRODUCT WINDOWS NT 4.0 N-PLEX Hub base product (includes SMTP gateway)  QA560 Global Directory Server (GDS) option (Includes Global Directory Navigator)   QA425 N-PLEX Hub Connectivity option  QA538 ISOGATE Plus for Lotus Notes option QA532 ISOGATE Plus for cc:Mail option QA533 ISOGATE Plus for Microsoft Mail option QA534   ISOGATE DirSync Plus for Lotus Notes   QA535 ISOGATE DirSync Plus for cc:Mail option QA536   ISOGATE DirSync Plus for Microsoft Mail option QA537   N-PLEX Accounting  QA480 N-PLEX Access Control QA472  ISOGATE Plus for MS Exchange option QA541*   ISOGATE Plus for MS Exchange option  QA542* * Contact Bomara for avaliability System Requirements IBM PC with single or multiple Pentium or Pentium Pro processors 64 MB RAM (for fully configured system) Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 or 4.0 CD-ROM Drive N-PLEX Hub consists of a base product and several options. Each N-PLEX Hub Base package comes complete with: ISOCOR Management Center ISOPLEX Message Switch for Intrahub and interhub switching SMTP/MIME directory synchronization, gateway and message server Documentation End User License Agreement Registration Card Warranty Card for 90 days no-charge customer support plan Each hub must have the X.400 connectivity option and/or the appropriate gateway options. Each network of N-PLEX Hubs must have at least one GDS option if directory synchronization is to be used. Directory synchronization is optional for each gateway. Accounting and Access Control options are available for each Hub. Licenses are for unlimited PO/user support on single and multi-CPU hardware.