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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 25, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 34
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Breaking News -
Security:
New Industry Price Benchmark Set
For Check Point VPN-1
Cavium Networks, a cost and performance leader in security processing, and
Crossbeam Systems, a leading global developer of total security solutions
required for safer, simpler networks, announced a VPN accelerator card based
on Cavium's NITROX lite processor that enables customers of Crossbeam's C30
security services switch to achieve VPN throughput of 300 Mbps of 3DES+SHA-1
IPsec processing at almost half the cost of competing VPN accelerators that
often deliver lower performance.
Designed for medium-sized enterprises and divisional offices of larger
businesses, Crossbeam's C30 is a compact security services switch that
delivers high performance, high availability and multiple layers of security
using individual or multiple security engines (VPN, firewall, SPAM and content
scanning, anti-virus, and intrusion detection and prevention) on a patent-
pending, dual-stage data classification and switching platform. For its VPN
engine, the C30 uses the industry's leading integrated firewall and VPN
solution -- Check Point Software Technologies VPN-1/FireWall- 1 -- for access
control, authentication and encryption to guarantee the security of network
connections, the authenticity of local and remote users, and the privacy and
integrity of data communications.
"VPN performance is critical for enterprises of all sizes, but medium-sized
businesses have been priced out of VPN acceleration so they end up having to
compromise on features and performance," said Joseph Dell, chief technology
officer of Vigilar. "The C30 allows us to deliver a 'no compromises' approach
to security for our medium-sized business customers."
"VPN performance is critical based on the increasing number of tunnels
required to support remote access users, backhaul regional office connections
or secure wireless access points for the growing number of businesses using
wireless LANs," said Marilyn Kain, vice president of strategic alliances and
business development for Crossbeam Systems. "Based on its 2 Gbps of firewall
throughput and up to 300 Mbps of VPN throughput using Cavium's technology, the
C30 delivers absolutely untouchable network security performance for the
price."
Cavium's NITROX family is the fastest and most flexible range of security
processors available today. NITROX is a programmable, highly integrated,
single chip solution designed to combine all aspects of IPSec and SSL protocol
security including extensive secure packet and record processing, bulk data
encryption and public key processing. Cavium is widely recognized as a
security processing industry leader with its NITROX products winning the Best
Coprocessor Award at NPC West 2002 and Best Security Processor at
Microprocessor Report's 2003 Analysts' Choice Awards.
"Working with Crossbeam is a great validation of our strategy to enable
integrated security platforms with high-performance, low-cost security
processing that surpasses single-function appliances," said Rajiv Khemani,
vice president of marketing at Cavium Networks. "We are pleased that
Crossbeam's C30 effectively utilizes the industry-leading price and
performance of our NITROX security processors to provide a compelling OPSEC
'Secured by Check Point' platform with integration of multiple security
applications and high-availability features."
In addition to this VPN card, the agreement between the two companies also
gives Crossbeam access to higher-performance security processing and VPN
acceleration products from Cavium.
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