Crossbeam X40

Crossbeam X40 ... Services Switch" - a custom built platform for high-end networks that gives users a totally secure infrastructure using the best security technologies available on the market.

The platform is designed from the ground up to offer true, carrier-class high availability and superior performance (up to 4 Gbps of firewall with the ability to scale up to 8 Gbps) while running multiple best-in-class security engines for firewall, accelerated virtual private networks (VPNs), intrusion detection and prevention, anti-virus, and employee Internet content management (URL Filtering). The X40 offers companies a safer, simpler solution for network security - one that is fully secure and easy-to-manage…

These days, using just a perimeter firewall to protect a company's information security assets is not enough. A more sophisticated, layered approach is required. But traditional approaches to building layered defense-in-depth security architectures require multiple disparate devices - an expensive and cumbersome proposition, since each device requires its own maintenance (patches, upgrades), management infrastructure, and connectivity. Consider it - configuring the right data flow through the separate security technologies requires an intricate knowledge of routing, tapping, and/or port mirroring. Scaling performance means adding load balancers which added yet another layer of complexity. All together, every element increases complexity and vulnerability.

The X40 fundamentally improves the economics of delivering these security services by consolidating multiple security technologies in modular fashion. All of the security technologies are tied together by a sophisticated chassis-based system that removes the need for external switches, load balancers, taps, and/or port mirrors. Configuring flow paths through the multiple security technologies is easily handled from an elegant Graphical User Interface (GUI) that gives the user complete flexibility. This consolidation creates the most secure and economical defense model in the industry.