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Crossbeam: Reducing Complexity

Boxborough, Mass.-based network security appliance developer Crossbeam works with customers to reduce the complexity of large data center and telecom networks, said President and CEO Mike Ruffolo.

The company's technology consolidates multiple security appliances into a single virtualized platform running software from any security vendor, reducing the number of boxes customers need to purchase by up to 100-to-1 and reducing the related power and cooling costs of telecom, mobile, financial or enterprise data centers by up to 50 percent, Ruffolo said.