Comverse Adds Reroute Function To Router-Based Mobile Internet Gateway And Announces Availability Of Its End2End Multi-Access Security Solution, Allowing For Truly Secure M-Commerce And Corporate Applications.Business Editors 3GSM World Congress 2001 CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2001 This New Solution From Comverse Is Based On Its Family Of Next-Generation Multi-Access Routers, Allows Mobile Operators To Enrich Their Mobile Services Offering And Enables Users Of Existing Handsets To Access M-Commerce Applications, Banking Applications And Corporate Networks With End-to-End Secure Transmission Visit The Comverse Booth At The 3GSM World Congress Cannes, February 20-23 - Stand D10 Comverse, a division of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CMVT CMVT Converse Technology ), and the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based enhanced services, announced today that its solution for end-to-end multi-access security for wireless Internet services is now available. This solution relies on Comverse's family of next-generation multi-access routers, the compact eXa.Flow and the carrier-grade Mega.Flow, both based on the patent-pending RT-PACE core technology. The traditional implementation of mobile Internet is a software-based proxy gateway that is placed at the premises of the wireless operator and translates messages into Internet protocol. The inherent problem of this implementation lies in its inability to provide end-to-end secure transmission, as required by banking, corporate, and m-commerce applications. Whenever the user creates a session to a secure Web server (1) A server on the Web that supports one or more of the major security protocols such as SSL, SHTTP and PCT. This means that order form data from your browser is encrypted before being sent (uploaded) to the Web site, making it extremely difficult for a third party to decipher at the bank or enterprise, his secured transactions Business dealings that grant a creditor a right in property owned or held by a debtor to assure the payment of a debt or the performance of some obligation. A secured transaction is a transaction that is founded on a security agreement. , based on the WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. protocol WTLS (Wireless Transport Layer Security) The security services in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WTLS is based on TLS, the landline version that is widely used on the Internet. (Wireless Transport Layer Security (standard, security) Wireless Transport Layer Security - (WTLS) The WAP standard related to security. WTLS is based upon its TCP/IP counterpart, Secure Sockets Layer. ), are exposed at the operator's proxy, prior to being transmitted to the secured server. This major security issue has been keeping banks and enterprises from migrating their existing Internet/intranet services into mobile services. With this limiting factor, the success of mobile Internet for these purposes was uncertain. Comverse is now changing the perception of wireless Internet security by using its multi-access compliant routers. With Comverse's multi-access router at the operator's premises equipped with the unique re-routing capability, secure multi-access transactions are routed directly into a subordinate multi-access proxy, located within the secured network of the bank or enterprise. The whole process is standard-based and supports existing mobile Internet-enabled handsets. "The use of Comverse's multi-access router provides the operator's mobile Internet subscribers with QoX (Quality of Experience) by enabling them to connect to an unlimited number of secure sites, without changing any settings in the phone, as well as by dramatically decreasing their access waiting period," said Zeev Bregman, Chief Executive Officer of Comverse. "Comverse's patent-pending RT-PACE technology implemented in its line of multi-access routers assures the highest performance possible in multi-access protocol conversion which is a key issue for implementation in next generation cellular networks, such as 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. , EDGE, and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) The GSM implementation of the 3G wireless phone system. Part of IMT-2000, UMTS provides service in the 2 GHz band and offers global roaming and personalized features. ." The ability to reroute traffic enhances the mobile operators' ability to seamlessly handle additional traffic and better traffic segmentation to large organizations, application service providers (ASPs) where the re-routing extends to such criteria as destination IP address, destination port number, source IP address, destination URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , device type and originate MSISDN (Mobile Subscriber ISDN) The telephone number of a GSM cellphone. The MSISDN is stored in the SIM card inside the phone. See GSM. . As an active member in the WAP forum, Comverse is committed to supporting end-to-end security according to the WAP standards, as well as the variety of WAP-enabled handsets that are already available in the market. In addition, Comverse will support additional protocols (i.e., cHTML, I-mode) and handsets. About Comverse Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:CMVT) is the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communications services in over 350 customers in more than 100 countries. Comverse provides a wide range of solutions enabling 3G-ready multimedia messaging, multi-protocol mobile Internet platforms, wireless data and short messaging services, speech- controlled portal, wireless prepaid services, interactive voice response and other personal communications services See PCS. . Other Comverse Technology business units include: Comverse Infosys which provides multiple channel, multlmedia digital recording, logging, and quality monitoring systems marketing to call centers, financial institutions and law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). ; and Ulticom, a leading provider of network signaling software for wireless, wireline, and Internet communications services. Comverse Technology is an S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 Index company. For additional information, visit the Comverse web site at http://www.comverse.com. All product and company names mentioned herein may be registered trademarks or trademarks of Comverse or the respective referenced company(s). |
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