Chapter 2. Cyclone Product Documentation

Table of Contents

Introduction
Installation Guide
Configuration Guide
Operations Guide
Tuning Guide

Introduction

Cyclone 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 simplify the process of building and maintaining cost-effective and reliable Usenet networks.

Cyclone provides all the standard features you would expect from Usenet hub software. In addition, Cyclone has advanced features like:

  • Network bandwidth preserving redundant feeding

  • Built-in disaster recovery with hot fail-over

  • Customer-facing web-based GUI configuration tool

  • Fine-grained control over feed content

  • Ability to take advantage of multiprocessor hardware