How well does the Netclean Whitebox scale to heavier loads?
The capacity of the filtering system to handle intercepted traffic depends on the performance of the filter server and the available bandwidth of the filter server’s internet connection (i.e. the DIA’s internet connection). Netclean claim that their system is highly scalable by adding additional or faster servers. Their marketing includes the following: “NetClean WhiteBox runs on one of the fastest high speed networks in the world, SUNET in Sweden. This runs at 10Gb/s and supports over 350,000 users. It has no effect on the performance of their Internet access.” For the year ending 2007, approximately 3.1 million New Zealanders over the age of 10 had access to the internet (Nielsen Broadband Report 2008).
