Columbitech Announces Solution to Secure Existing Wireless Infrastructure for Retail Industry.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2003 Protects Legacy Device Investments and Enables Wireless Applications Like Inventory Control and Warehouse Management to Be Secure, Dependable, and Easy-to-Use Specifically designed to meet the wireless security and connectivity challenges faced by the retail industry, Columbitech offers a new security solution for protecting key retail applications, such as wireless DOS handheld devices, without loss of connectivity. From inventory control and logistics management Logistics Management is that part of Supply Chain Management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective, forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet to warehouse distribution and vendor managed inventory Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a family of business models in which the buyer of a product provides certain information to a supplier of that product and the supplier takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed inventory of the material, usually at the buyer's applications, Columbitech Wireless Suite -- Retail Edition delivers an easy-to-use solution with network protection, strong encryption An encryption method that uses a very large number as its cryptographic key. The larger the key, the longer it takes to unlawfully break the code. Today, 256 bits is considered strong encryption. As computers become faster, the length of the key must be increased. and advanced authentication for the protection of wireless data and business networks, coupled with its convenient always-on connectivity, and highly dependable server technology. The retail industry was one of the first to embrace Wireless LAN technology to build productivity throughout the delivery chain. Columbitech's solution helps retailers protect both their wireless infrastructure and their capital investment in wireless devices. In addition to its advanced security options, always-on connectivity and dependable server technology, Columbitech Wireless Suite -- Retail Edition offers support for legacy DOS handheld devices such as POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale scanners, which are regularly used in retail. Support for DOS devices is developed in partnership with Symbol Technologies and is exclusively distributed by Symbol Technologies under the AirBEAM Safe brand. Traditional security solutions require the user to log on multiple times, each time the wireless connection is lost, which hampers productivity. Columbitech's new retail security solution offers "always-on connectivity". This enables handheld devices that lose connection or go into a hibernation state to quickly resume at the same program or document without user frustration, loss of time to log back in, or loss of data from the previous session. Columbitech Wireless Suite -- Retail Edition also features a minimum-maintenance server technology, which is ideal for retailer chains that rarely have IT support at each outlet. "Following recent reports of increased intrusion activities over Wireless LAN networks, retailers must now solve pressing security issues to protect sensitive corporate data and maintain the confidence of their customers. Wireless applications such as inventory control need very high availability and are often accessed with legacy DOS devices. National retailers need network protection for hundreds of stores, which make traditional firewalls too expensive and complicated," said Pontus Bergdahl, 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. "Columbitech's Wireless Suite -- Retail Edition offers a unique solution to those challenges." Columbitech's Wireless Suite Retail Edition supports Wireless LAN as well as cellular networks such as CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. and GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. that are used in retail logistics applications. It will be generally available in Q2 of 2003. About Columbitech Columbitech develops and markets software products for secure wireless access to corporate data. These products are used today around the world in a wide range of applications, by service technicians, police forces, and other mobile staff who require reliability and security in their wireless communications. The company's unique technology 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 and Diversinet, and is OPSEC (OPerations SECurity) The U.S. military term for concealing critical information as part of a counterintelligence plan. A form of "security by obscurity," OPSEC determines what information adversaries can obtain or piece together from observation and to provide measures for certified by Check Point. Columbitech's products are built from the ground up for the wireless world, offering end-to-end security, convenient always-on connectivity, and optimized performance. Columbitech is privately held and has offices in Stockholm, Sweden and in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , USA. For more information, please visit www.columbitech.com. |
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