Crossbeam Systems X-Series security switches couple the consolidation benefits of unified threat management (UTM) along with unprecedented levels of scale, performance, and virtualisation to meet and exceed the stringent requirements demanded for securing the world's largest networks.
PROVIDER-CLASS UTM X-Series offers UTM solutions that enable service providers to create new business opportunities with virtualised security services. This presents customers with unparalleled security application choice, simplifies operations and administration, and adapts to the specific needs of the service provider's infrastructure, including fixed and mobile networks. X-Series offers true carrier-class high availability and superior performance while running multiple best-in-class security engines for firewall, accelerated virtual private networks (VPNs), intrusion detection and prevention, anti-virus/spam/ spyware, URL filtering, and XML firewalling. This gives organisations a safer, simpler solution for network security that results in operational and capital efficiencies not achievable with disparate products.
ENTERPRISE-CLASS UTM X-Series offers UTM solutions that enable businesses to deploy a simplified and cost-optimised security services layer that enforces corporate risk management policies across the network. With virtualised topologies, security services can be adapted and applied immediately, and by consolidating services, further reduce the cost of deployment and operation which in turn improves security, scalability, and performance. X-Series fundamentally improves the economics of security by integrating defence-in-depth into an easy-to-implement UTM solution. 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 UTM solution is handled from an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) that gives the user complete flexibility. This consolidation creates the most secure and economical defence model in the industry.
CROSSBEAM'S X-STREAM SECURE FLOW PROCESSING
The X80 platform supports highly complex, performance-intensive network security configurations through the X-Stream secure flow processing technology. X-Stream consists of:
Intelligent Load Balancing - load balancing from the NPMs to the APMs based on the actual device usage metrics on the APMs. This load balancing capability is the result of Crossbeam's patent pending flow scheduling technology. Using precise measures on the APMs (including CPU utilisation, memory, queue depths, traffic received, etc), the X80 can determine the most efficient distribution of loads across the set of available application resources. This allows users to have the best use of their available processing hardware based on their network traffic flow.
Serialisation - allows security managers to dynamically route flows through the X80 in any conceivable order (e.g. firewall to anti-virus to URL filter to firewall). Flows can be directed by standard IP forwarding (next-hop) rules or with policies on the NPM that classify packets and force flows through specific applications.
Parallelisation - allows for the duplication of flows for passive or sensing applications such as intrusion detection. The X80 high-speed switch fabric duplicates packets of flows at line speed and sends an exact copy of the flow to a passive application such as an IDS sensor. With parallelisation, security managers can construct interior and exterior IDS configurations without the complexity or fault probability introduced by taps or port mirrors.
With X-Stream, virtually any configuration that can be constructed with discrete network elements can be implemented, all within the highly available X80 system. This type of unprecedented flexibility gives complete control, even in the most complex security configurations. And the full depth and breadth of defence delivers measurable cost savings given the number of infrastructure components eliminated by the X80 platform.
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Crossbeam Systems Inc
