Columbitech's Wireless VPN Adds Symbian OS Support to Provide World's Most Comprehensive Mobile VPN.Offering Now Includes Symbian OS An open standard operating system for data-enabled mobile phones (smartphones) from Symbian Ltd., London (www.symbian.com). It supports Java, PC synchronization, Bluetooth local wireless access and GPRS packet-switched data. 9.1, Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center. 5.0 and Windows XP The previous client version of Windows. XP was a major upgrade to the client version of Windows 2000 with numerous changes to the user interface. XP improved support for gaming, digital photography, instant messaging, wireless networking and sharing connections to the Internet. NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Mobile security solutions provider Columbitech today announced that its Wireless VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. solution includes support for Symbian OS[TM] 9.1. Adding support for Symbian to Columbitech's existing portfolio of mobile VPN solutions that includes Windows XP and Windows Mobile 5, presents Columbitech Wireless VPN as the world's first and only mobile VPN to support laptops as well as both Windows and Symbian-based smartphones and PDAs. The use of smartphones for remote access to corporate resources and business applications puts a new challenge on security solutions. The same security applied in the wired world is required for secure communications via mobile devices. As a result, Columbitech has developed a mobile VPN solution to support all mobile devices targeted at the enterprise market. "Introducing Symbian as one of the platforms for our wireless VPN reflects our dedication to the development of a holistic and platform-independent security solution," said Lars Resenius, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Columbitech. "By addressing the specific requirements of security combined with mobility and ease-of-use, we have created a product line that is one of the most widely deployed mobile VPN products in the world with more than 1.4 million client licenses sold. Support for Symbian 9.1 is a natural part of our mission to provide our customers with a complete security solution that enables new mobile services and increased data revenues." Columbitech Wireless VPN is a software-only solution offering significant advantages in terms of guaranteed security and convenient "always-on" connectivity. By using standards and protocols especially adopted for wireless communication, Columbitech has been able to create a VPN with exceptional reliability. The architecture not only provides a very high level of security, but also high performance through efficient adaptive compression and various protocol optimization techniques. Furthermore, the complexities of wireless data communication are made transparent by providing the end user with a robust, convenient and hassle-free, single sign-on environment. Support for Symbian 9.1 will be available in December 2006. Currently, Columbitech Wireless VPN supports PPC See Pocket PC, PowerPC and pay-per-click. PPC - PowerPC 2002/2003, Windows Mobile5/WinCE.Net/3/4/5, Win2K, WinXP, DOS, pSOS, VxWorks, and Ubicom. Columbitech server support includes Win2000/2003, WinNT4.0, Lynx and Linux. About Columbitech Columbitech, the market leader in embedded wireless security, develops and markets solutions for the securing of wireless access to corporate data, without sacrificing performance and ease-of-use. Customers include service providers, retailers, military and government agencies, and other mobile staff who require proven reliability and security for their wireless communications. The Columbitech solution is OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and licensed by leading companies, including Symbol Technologies, Toshiba TEC, Hewlett Packard and Ericsson. With products built from the ground up for the wireless world, Columbitech offers end-to-end security, convenient always-on connectivity, and optimized performance. The Columbitech solution holds a FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) A series of publications issed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that specifies information security guidelines for federal government departments and agencies. 140-2 certification and is in the evaluation process for Common Criteria Certification. Columbitech is privately held with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, and New York, USA. For more information, please visit www.columbitech.com. 
Columbitech: "Support for Symbian 9.1 will be available in December 2006."<br>What do we have now, almost 3 years later in Nov 2009?<br>Columbitech's promises were NEWER delivered!<br><br>The good news is that exist companies that are not making big promises, they just deliver the product: SymVPN - PPTP VPN for S60 3rd and 5th (Symbian 9.x) from www.telexy.com<br><br>It is not IPSec VPN but under any circumstances working PPTP VPN is much better then not existing IPSec. Actually a lot of people will appreciate PPTP over IPSec because of simple configuration and it is really easy to use. |
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