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Start-up Andes Networks Inc. last month began beta-testing hardware designed to greatly speed cryptographic processing used to safeguard Web transactions.
Observers say the company's A5210 devices, which are designed to accelerate processing of traffic encrypted using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, work up to 10 times faster than competing gear from Rainbow Technologies Inc. and nCipher Corporation Ltd.
SSL accelerators, which can attach to servers or switches, are used to offload SSL processing duties from Web servers, which can take a major performance hit when processing such transactions...