| Highwinds Software Product Documentation: Typhoon, Twister, Tornado, Hurricane, and Cyclone | ||
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Reader servers in multi-homed networks no longer need to receive all of their articles pre-numbered from a Master Number Generator Cyclone server. They can receive articles from a local Cyclone. The local Cyclone can accept articles from local peers and request article numbering and control information from Hurricane. Articles unknown to Hurricane can be forwarded to the system for distribution to other subscribed servers that want, but do not have the articles. By using Hurricane, the Reader servers can ensure that the newly received articles are numbered exactly the same way as articles received on the other side of the network. Doing this greatly reduces the bandwidth needed to run a large distributed network. Every POP can obtain articles locally and reduce the in-network bandwidth to and from the centralized Master Number Generator Cyclone server.
By separating the action of numbering from the action of receiving articles, every news router can contact Hurricane for article numbers. Any router can go down without catastrophic consequences for the network. Since Hurricane itself is a multi-homed, fault-tolerant system, the Single Point of Failure is removed.
Features that are currently under development at Highwinds Software are: Pre-emptive SPAM Filtering - Centralized removal of articles recognized as SPAM. Subscriber Statistics - Web Site detailing subscribed servers' article completion rates. View the success of sites increasing their completion rates with Hurricane.
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