As Smart Cards Move Toward An Open Platform, Greater Interoperability Is Expected To Drive Future Growth.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50545) has announced the addition of the new Frost & Sullivan Report "World Smart Card Platforms" to their offering. This Frost & Sullivan research service titled World Smart Card Platforms Market provides an overview of the platforms market in various applications and unit shipment forecasts for four major smart card platforms -- Java card A smart card that contains Java applets. Several applets can be stored in the card, and new ones can be added after issuance to the customer. See Java. , MULTOS MULTOS Multimedia Office Server , MIFARE, and FELICA. In this study, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the smart card platform market in the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) A digital cellular phone technology based on TDMA that is the predominant system in Europe, but also used worldwide. Developed in the 1980s, GSM was first deployed in seven European countries in 1992. , payment, government, national, and transit ID applications. Market Overview Technological Advancement to Expand Smart Cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. Platform Market Currently in the middle of a growth phase, the smart cards market is showing unprecedented signs of double-digit growth. This acts as a catalyst for the advancement of technology and applications, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the analyst of this study. In order to compete with platforms that are more flexible, secure, fast, and interoperable, platform vendors need to keep up with these technological advances. The most important trend among various developments and technological upgrades is the convergence of smart cards and IT. Future versions of smart cards need to be compatible with IT since it is ubiquitous. If compatibility issues arise, there will be a reduction in the number of smart card deployments, which will cause replacement of smart cards with next-generation authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. technologies. As Smart Cards Move toward an Open Platform, Greater Interoperability is Expected to Drive Future Growth The need for a level playing field See net neutrality. across verticals is driving the smart card market toward an open platform. The Global Platform, which previously only supported Java Card, now also supports the MULTOS platform. This is providing an impetus to build a standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. open platform. The aim is to increase the scope of applications that can be interlinked, and thereby offer interoperability to customers. As part of this move, any application written in a common language will work on all platforms under the common specifications and smart cards will work on any terminal or reader that is part of the Global Platform specification, explains the analyst. The short-term objective is to deploy a specification that provides interoperability between the MULTOS and the Java card platforms. For more information, visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50545. |
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