MobileAware Empowers Enterprises to Extend Critical Corporate Info to Mobile Users with Smart IP 3.2

PRLog (Press Release) - Jun 20, 2007 -
DUBLIN, Ireland, June 20, 2007 – MobileAware, the world’s leading provider of Mobile Service Infrastructure, today announced the availability of Smart IP 3.2, an enhanced version of its core mobile VPN product. Smart IP 3.2 provides a host of new security and performance features that enable organizations to extend real-time corporate data to mobile users better and easier than ever before. Smart IP 3.2 provides improved security through FIPS 140-2 validated encryption, enhanced support for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices and new performance monitoring tools that allow for better capacity planning and faster resolution of system problems. The latest release of Smart IP also facilitates improved scalability and includes enhanced support for LDAP authentication, simplifying the configuration and authentication process.

MobileAware’s Smart IP is helping organizations across a wide variety of industries, including public safety, transport, logistics and utilities, to achieve increased employee productivity, improved customer satisfaction and reduced operational costs. Smart IP allows mobile users to maintain networked applications through coverage gaps, network disconnects/reconnects, during voice call interruptions, and when moving through different networks.  It optimizes network communications, improving productivity through faster response times, minimizing network costs and maximizing battery life.

“MobileAware’s Smart IP forms an essential part of our wireless police force dispatch and reporting system,” commented François Létourneau, Public Safety Product Manager, at xwave. “Using Smart IP we have developed a robust mobile solution that facilitates seamless switching between multiple wireless networks, ensuring that our users can transmit data in real-time regardless of coverage issues. We greatly value the latest enhancements to the product, which ensure that our customers continue to benefit from the most advanced and reliable mobile solutions on the market.”

“Smart IP 3.2 delivers enhanced security, scalability and performance features that provide our customers with continuous, secure access to critical applications across any network,” commented Brian Kinane, Chief Strategy Officer at MobileAware. “We are committed to developing our products to ensure that our customers can fully realize substantial business benefits from mobilizing their workforces.”

Smart IP 3.2 Features
Improved Security through FIPS 140-2 Validated Encryption
The encryption of over-the-air session data between Smart IP 3.2 mobile clients and the Smart IP server has been enhanced to include the latest technology from Certicom Corporation, validated by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to be compliant to the FIPS 140-2 specification. Smart IP 3.2 offers wireless-optimized AES encryption based on this FIPS 140-2 validated technology.

Enhanced Windows Mobile 5.0 Device Support
Smart IP 3.2 features enhanced support for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices, including improved performance and network roaming support and Microsoft Mobile2Market code signing.

New Performance Monitoring Tools
Smart IP 3.2 provides new performance monitoring tools that allow for better capacity planning and faster resolution of system problems. Server-side statistics can be collected, analyzed and audited for application level tracking, trouble-shooting or reconciliation with network usage data.

Improved Scalability through Multiple DMZ Gateway Support
The Smart IP server now supports communication with multiple DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) gateways to improve redundancy and load-balancing capabilities.

Enhanced Support for LDAP Authentication
Smart IP 3.2’s enhanced LDAP authentication support allows the use of standard Windows authentication, providing users with easier configuration and reuse of existing authentication.

About MobileAware
MobileAware is the world’s leading provider of Mobile Service Infrastructure, a strategic approach for creating and managing mobile data solutions across all lines of business. Whether you are looking to deploy revenue-generating consumer services, cost-reducing customer services, or productivity-enhancing employee services, MobileAware provides a unified framework that fully integrates with existing enterprise service infrastructure to make your mobile strategy a seamless extension of your overall business strategy. Mobile Service Infrastructure simplifies the complexity surrounding disparate data, device diversity and network convergence, enabling companies to rapidly launch secure and reliable mobile solutions that leverage existing business assets and resources. MobileAware is a privately held company with worldwide business operations, serving more than 100 customers across six continents, and is on the Web at www.mobileaware.com

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Caroline McPartland
MobileAware (Europe)
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