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Telstra cashes in on spam, viruses on wholesale network

By Andrew Colley, 0
June 13, 2003
URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Telstra-cashes-in-on-spam-viruses-on-wholesale-network/0,130061791,120275386,00.htm

Telstra is taking steps to spin a dollar out of stamping spam and email-borne viruses from its wholesale customer's networks.

Telstra will soon offer its wholesale customers the ability to route their email to a network platform that will filter spam and viruses.

The platform, called Telstra Wholesale Safe Internet, is being supplied by First Wave Technology which today announced that the carrier had already launched the new network.

A Telstra spokesperson today confirmed that it planned to announce the new service next week.

At this stage it appears that Telstra-ISPs will be charged to use the platform, the spokesperson for the carrier today describing it as a "product".

The two-pronged software solution detects viruses and filters spam before it reaches their wholesale customers' networks.

First Wave the platform's designer claimed that the spam filtering component of the platform -- supplied by Brightmail -- was 90 percent accurate in detecting unsolicited bulk email in overseas trials.