CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TO WORK WITH INTEL TO DELIVER GIGABIT SECURITY PERFORMANCE FOR E-BUSINESS
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Effort to Integrate Secure Virtual Network (SVN) Architecture with Intel Internet Exchange (IX) Architecture
Specifically, Check Point Software will integrate its Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture with the Intel Internet Exchange™ (IX) architecture to provide customers with next-generation Internet security performance. The combination of Check Point's high-performance SVN architecture for Internet security and Intel's IX architecture, a platform for designing high-performance networking and communication products will accelerate the ability to transact high-speed, real-time E-Business activity over high-bandwidth networks. Today, Check Point Software has high-performance Internet security and E-Business solutions offering comprehensive security and full manageability without sacrificing performance. With this announcement, Check Point continues its industry leadership in providing advanced high-performance security solutions. In addition, through its work with Intel as a key member of the Intel IX developer's forum, Check Point Software will help integrate and drive new standards of Internet-security performance to gigabit levels needed in the future. The combination of the most comprehensive high performance Internet security infrastructure coupled with the industry's most powerful and flexible network processors will allow network managers to monitor, manage, and control the future volume of network traffic generated by the increasing growth of E-Business environments. "We look forward to working with Check Point to help build a network security platform that scales to gigabit performance," said Len Rand, general manager of NetBoost a Division of Intel. "The Intel IX architecture and Check Point's software will provide customers with a highly secure, robust and complete platform for E-Business that can be easily adapted as needs change." "With the explosive growth of E-Business, high-performance, scalable secure enterprise communication over the Internet becomes critical," said Asheem Chandna, vice president of marketing and business development of Check Point Software, Technologies. "The Check Point and Intel combination accelerates the future standards of Internet security to meet these needs." About Check Point Software Technologies Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. The company's integrated architecture includes network security (FireWall-1, VPN-1, Provider-1 and Check Point RealSecure), traffic control (FloodGate-1 and ConnectControl), and IP address management (Meta IP). Check Point Software solutions enable customers to implement centralized policy-based management with enterprise-wide distributed deployment. Via the OPSEC Alliance, Check Point Software's products seamlessly integrate with "best-of-breed" products from more than 200 leading industry partners. The company has U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, California and international headquarters in Ramat-Gan, Israel. For more information, please call (800) 429-4391 or (650) 628-2000 or visit http://www.checkpoint.com or http://www.opsec.com
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