Crossbeam Systems is leading a tremendous shift in the networking industry, as businesses recognize the transformational nature of unified threat management (UTM) security devices. Enterprises are moving away from single function appliances. Instead, they are consolidating multiple security functions into a single device, thereby creating a true security services layer that enables them to realize greater performance and network resiliency. Why now?
In the past, network security was fairly simple: perimeter firewalls deployed on servers provided plenty of horsepower. As network traffic increased and the type of traffic changed to small packets with many flows, these simple firewalls became inadequate. Organizations handled this situation by taking their servers or appliances running firewalls and surrounding them with switches and load balancers so they could scale. However, as the popularity of the Internet increased and its criticality to businesses made it a target for hackers, a new set of threats and defenses emerged. Vendors then developed intellectual property to combat specific threats, resulting in today's appliance sprawl.
The industry responded by creating a new architecture to unify security infrastructure. In the last 18 months, the leading security vendors and integrators, and the world's largest enterprises and service providers have all converged around a single security ecosystem that enables a true security services layer.
These vendors share an understanding - the need for an open and extensible platform, purpose built for security, upon which interoperable, best-in-class security solutions can be integrated and exchanged as needed, to secure the network.
The X-Series is a high performance "network-in-a box" or virtual infrastructure capable of running any security application from 5Gbps all the way to 150Gbps. The difference? Customers can choose the best-in-class security applications they want to run on the X-Series. The adaptable nature of the platform means that customers can easily provision new applications, change out old ones or scale performance without touching any part of the network architecture.
Bottom line - Crossbeam delivers the world's most optimized network giving you unwavering confidence in your business.