Certicom's VPN client provides major productivity improvements and strategic flexibility to today s enterprise while expanding Certicom's wide range of mobile security products designed specifically to meet the bandwidth and footprint constraints of today's increasingly mobile professional work forces. Just as VPNs extended the classic WAN, mobile devices will extend VPNs to give remote users secure and reliable access to the corporate network from almost any location. Certicom's work in this area will be important as it provides solutions for today's mobile and wireless devices while ensuring interoperability with Cisco powered networks. A VPN uses the Internet as the transport backbone to establish secure links with an increasingly mobile workforce while extending communications to regional and isolated offices. Serving as an express lane on the information superhighway, VPNs are specially designed, secured connections between several points.
Communications still travel along the Internet but are encrypted for security.
While VPNs have been popular for several years, until today, there has been no VPN client for mobile devices compatible with existing VPN installations in the marketplace. With Certicom's client we will be able to implement secure, low-cost VPN connections for wireless handheld devices. This capability is critical to enterprises seeking flexible, yet secure, communication to their increasingly far-flung mobile and wireless workers. We are pleased to be working with Certicom to extend the range of our Contivity solution to address both wired and wireless users. Other interoperability targets will follow based on market demand.