Crossbeam Systems and Digital China Form Partnership to Bring Unified Threat Management to Rapidly Growing Chinese Market

Crossbeam Systems and Digital China Form Partnership to Bring Unified Threat Management to Rapidly Growing Chinese Market

April 18, 2006

    CONCORD, Mass., April 18 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Crossbeam Systems(R), Inc., the leader in unified threat
management (UTM) for the world's largest networks, today
announced a distributor agreement with Digital China
Limited, China's largest IT products distributor and
systems integrator.  Under the terms of the agreement,
Crossbeam is Digital China's UTM vendor.
 
    "As security threats continuously evolve,
enterprise organizations look to Digital China to provide
next generation security solutions," said Ding Zhe,
general manager, Network Value Added Business Unit,
Enterprise Product System Dept of Digital China. "Our
partnership with Crossbeam enables us to offer customers
the world's only best-of-breed UTM offering, providing a
flexible solution that meets their specific security
needs." 

    According to IDC, a leading IT market research firm,
the compound annual growth rate of the Chinese IT security
market is 20.9 percent from 2006 to 2010, (1) providing
Crossbeam with a tremendous opportunity to further
introduce best-of-breed UTM into this rapidly growing
region. 

    "Being selected by Digital China further validates
the increased global demand for UTM and Crossbeam's position
as the industry leader," said Tim Lee, vice president
of Asia Pacific for Crossbeam Systems. "Crossbeam
recognizes China as one of its most strategic markets and
is committed to bringing flexible UTM solutions to both
enterprise and telecom organizations."

    Crossbeam Systems provides high performance, high
availability security switches that run multiple
applications from a "who's who" list of leading
security vendors such as Check Point, Sourcefire, Trend
Micro, Forum, Imperva and Websense on a single platform.
Scaling capabilities drive consolidation by a factor of 20
devices down to one. 

    About Crossbeam Systems

    Crossbeam Systems secures the world's largest networks
with its pioneering best-of-breed Unified Threat Management
(UTM) solutions. The company has tailored security solutions
for global corporations, carrier networks and small to
medium-sized enterprises.  Founded in early 2000 and led by
senior executives from Bay Networks, Cisco, Nortel/Wellfleet
and Alcatel, Crossbeam is headquartered in Concord,
Massachusetts, USA, and has offices in Europe and Asia
Pacific.  The company is backed by top-tier investors,
including Focus Ventures, Tudor Ventures, Matrix Partners,
North Bridge Venture Partners, Commonwealth Capital Venture
Partners, Intel Capital and Charles River Ventures. More
information is available at http://www.crossbeamsystems.com
.

    Crossbeam Systems and Crossbeam are registered
trademarks of Crossbeam Systems, Inc. All other company,
product or service names not owned by Crossbeam mentioned
in this press release are the property of their respective
owners.

    (1) IDC China Semiannual IT Security Market Analysis,
March 2006

    For more information, please contact:

     Throop Wilder,
     Crossbeam Systems
     Tel:    [phone]
     Email:  [e-mail]
     Web:    http://www.crossbeamsystems.com

     Brian Greehan,
     Davies Murphy Group
     Tel:    [phone]
     Email:  [e-mail]
     Web:    http://www.daviesmurphy.com

SOURCE  Crossbeam Systems, Inc.