Crossbeam Systems and Check Point Announce Significant Market Momentum with Telecommunications and Managed Service Providers for
March 28 2005 - 10:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Crossbeam Systems and Check Point Announce Significant Market
Momentum with Telecommunications and Managed Service Providers for
Virtual Security Systems Integrated Security Pioneer also Announces
Availability of Check Point VPN-1(R) VSX(TM) with Next Generation
Application Intelligence on its X-Series Security Services Switches
CONCORD, Mass., March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Crossbeam Systems(R),
Inc., the leader in protecting the world's largest networks, and
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP), the worldwide
leader in securing the Internet, today announced significant
customer traction with major telecommunications and managed
security service providers (MSSPs) worldwide for Check Point
VPN-1(R) VSX(TM) running on Crossbeam X-Series security services
switches. The two companies also announced that the latest version
of Check Point's VPN-1 VSX Next Generation with Application
Intelligence(TM), is now available on Crossbeam's X-Series
products. As the leading solution for offering managed security
services, Crossbeam X-Series security services switches running
Check Point VPN-1 VSX, a solution known as VSX on X, has been
deployed to protect the networks and offer managed security
services by major service providers and MSSPs worldwide, including:
* Czech Telecom -- the largest provider of telecommunications
services in the Czech Republic and one of the most prominent
telecommunications companies in Central Europe. * Fujitsu -- one of
Europe's leading providers of managed services for IT
infrastructure. * Telefonica Empresas -- a company that provides
advanced communications, broadband and network application
solutions to more than 2,000 large enterprises and multi-national
corporations. It is part of the Telefonica Group, a global
telecommunications company. The traditional way to offer managed
firewalls or other security services has been to place a firewall
at each enterprise customer location. For service providers and
MSSPs, this process is both expensive and time- intensive,
requiring a separate security appliance and software license to
manage, patch and update for each customer. With VSX on X, service
providers and MSSPs can provide managed security services to up to
500 customers from a single device, dramatically reducing
licensing, maintenance and equipment costs and complexity. "We've
captured the security business of so many services providers and
MSSPs because our X-Series products uniquely address their
demanding network requirements -- the ability to deliver Check
Point's leading virtualized security software with carrier-grade
reliability and multi-gigabit performance," said Peter George,
president and CEO of Crossbeam Systems. "More importantly, VSX on X
delivers tremendous ROI because it turns the investment to protect
a service provider's own network into a revenue engine for multiple
managed security services, from firewalls to anti-virus." "Check
Point was the first to deliver virtualized security software
specifically designed to replace complex security infrastructures
and power managed security services," said Paul Weinstein, vice
president of business development, Check Point Software
Technologies. "Based on their performance and scalability,
Crossbeam's platforms are an ideal choice to run our VSX software
and the strong customer traction to our combined managed security
services solution will only help to extend Check Point's overall
VPN and firewall market leadership." The largest service providers
and MSSPs in the world rely on VSX on X for their managed firewall
offerings based on its carrier-grade capacity, performance,
integration and reliability. In addition, VSX on X benefits
customers because it provides revenue-generating managed security
services and also protects the service provider's own network. Key
VSX on X benefits include: * Managed Service Capacity -- support
for up to 500 virtual systems in one chassis, the most in the
industry. * Carrier-Grade Performance & Reliability -- up to
eight gigabits per second of throughput in a single chassis that
features rate limiting and multi-link trunking, and a
hot-swappable, self-healing blade architecture. * Simple,
Centralized Management -- global policy management and access to
Check Point's SmartDefense(R) service for real-time security
updates and protection from emerging network attacks. Check Point
VPN-1 VSX Next Generation with Application Intelligence is now
available on Crossbeam's X45(TM), X40(R) and X80(TM) security
services switches. About Crossbeam Systems Crossbeam Systems is a
global growth company that pioneered the integrated security device
market and is a leading developer of total security solutions
required for safer, simpler networks. The company has tailored
security solutions for global corporations, carrier networks and
small to medium-sized enterprises. Founded in early 2000 and led by
senior executives from Bay Networks, Cisco, Nortel/Wellfleet and
Alcatel, Crossbeam is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts, USA,
and has offices in Europe and Asia Pacific. The company is backed
by top-tier investors including Tudor Ventures, Matrix Partners,
North Bridge Venture Partners, Commonwealth Capital Venture
Partners, Intel Capital and Charles River Ventures. More
information is available at http://www.crossbeamsystems.com/.
Crossbeam Systems, Crossbeam and X40 are registered trademarks and
X45 and X80 are trademarks of Crossbeam Systems, Inc. All other
company, product or service names not owned by Crossbeam mentioned
in this press release are the property of their respective owners.
Contact: Throop Wilder Doug Broad Vice President of Marketing
SparkSource, Inc. Crossbeam Systems (781) 274-6061 ext. 215 (978)
318-7524 DATASOURCE: Crossbeam Systems, Inc. CONTACT: Throop
Wilder, Vice President of Marketing of Crossbeam Systems,
+1-978-318-7524, ; or Doug Broad of SparkSource, Inc.,
+1-781-274-6061 ext. 215, Web site:
http://www.crossbeamsystems.com/
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