Crossbeam Systems Partners with Altima Technologies to Offer Tools for Fast, Simple Network Diagramming.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CONCORD, Mass--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2003 As Part of Altima's NetZoom Certified See certification. Manufacturers Program, Crossbeam Will Provide Customers With Popular Equipment Shapes for Network Design and Planning Crossbeam Systems(R), Inc., a leading global developer of total security solutions required for safer, simpler enterprise and carrier networks, today announced that it has partnered with Altima Technologies, Inc., the leader in network diagramming di·a·gram n. 1. A plan, sketch, drawing, or outline designed to demonstrate or explain how something works or to clarify the relationship between the parts of a whole. 2. solutions, as a member of Altima's NetZoom(TM) Certified Manufacturers Program. Through this alliance, Altima will provide Crossbeam customers with a complimentary copy of a Crossbeam-specific version of NetZoom for Visio, an industry-leading network design program, and NetZoom Stencils(TM) for Visio. Both versions include Crossbeam's 15 most popular equipment shapes for use in network design and planning. These NetZoom products will enable Crossbeam customers to quickly and easily design and plan their networks in Visio. An interactive system accessed via a no-charge download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. link on the Crossbeam Systems Web site provides users with shapes of the company's products for simple and quick integration into system layouts. In addition to its ease-of-use, current NetZoom customers cite detailed, accurate equipment shapes and continuous updates as benefits of the technology. "Crossbeam has developed powerful solutions that keep enterprise and carrier networks simple, safe and cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. . Our alliance with Altima further emphasizes that focus on simplicity and control," said Mat Mathews, director of product management at Crossbeam Systems. "NetZoom gives our customers the ability to diagram diagram /di·a·gram/ (di´ah-gram) a graphic representation, in simplest form, of an object or concept, made up of lines and lacking pictorial elements. their networks with speed and ease, eliminating the complicated processes generally associated with drawing network documentation." Crossbeam solutions compress traditional security infrastructures from racks of disparate networking equipment into the X40(TM), a single, highly available security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the switch that offers superior levels of performance, return on investment and ease-of-management. Crossbeam customers have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in capital and operational expenses by implementing Crossbeam's technology. Customers choose best-of-breed security engines--such as intrusion protection, firewall, VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. , anti-virus and Web filtering--from Crossbeam's select vendors to integrate with Crossbeam's patent-pending technologies on a single, high-performance appliance, the Crossbeam X40. This single-box, highly available solution provides customers with unprecedented control over, and significant savings from, a consolidated security infrastructure. Utilizing Altima Technologies' proprietary NetZoom software, the availability of Visio shapes for Crossbeam products is the latest addition to the more than 50,000 vendor-specific equipment symbols from more than 1,100 network equipment manufacturers currently available to data and telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. professionals via NetZoom. About Altima Technologies, Inc. Altima Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1995 as a computer software company, and is an Illinois Illinois, river, United States Illinois, river, 273 mi (439 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, NE Ill., and flowing SW to the Mississippi at Grafton, Ill. It is an important commercial and recreational waterway. corporation with headquarters in the Chicago area. Altima has pioneered revolutionary solutions in the areas of network diagramming, documentation, proposals, and presentations, and is recognized as a leading solution provider in these fields. Networking professionals worldwide uses Altima's NetZoom(TM) products, and in November 2002 Altima Technologies was selected to become a Microsoft(R) Visio(R) Partner. Altima's products are based on patent pending technology, and the following trademarks are owned by Altima Tech: NetZoom (TM), NetZoom Symbols(TM), NetZoom Stencils(TM), iShapes(TM), and the Altima logo. For more information, visit www.AltimaTech.com or www.NetworkDiagramming.com. About Crossbeam Systems Crossbeam Systems, Inc., is a leading global developer of total security solutions required for safer, simpler enterprise and carrier networks. Crossbeam enables companies to consolidate their security infrastructures while preserving their security policies, resulting in significant savings in capital and operational expenses. Crossbeam's patent-pending architecture integrates best-of-breed security engines such as firewall, virtual private networks, intrusion detection See IDS and IPS. and content security in a high performance, highly available, self-healing security services switch. Headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2000 Census, the town population was about 17,000. Although a small town, Concord is noted for its leading roles in American history and literature. , Crossbeam was founded in early 2000 and is led by senior executives from Bay Networks, Cisco, Nortel/Wellfleet, Cascade/Ascend and Alcatel. With a presence in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia/Pacific, Crossbeam is backed by top-tier investors including Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Commonwealth Capital Venture Partners, Intel Capital and Charles River Charles River River, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. The longest river wholly in the state, it flows into Boston Bay after a course of about 80 mi (130 km). Navigable for about 7 mi (11 km), its estuary separates the cities of Boston and Cambridge. Ventures. More information is available at www.crossbeamsystems.com. Crossbeam Systems is a registered trademark of and X40 a trademark of Crossbeam Systems. All other companies and products mentioned are trademarks and property of their respective owners. |
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