Motorola to OEM V-ONE's SmartGate VPN.GERMANTOWN, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10-- Second Motorola Business Group to Contract with Extranet 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. Market Leader V-ONE(R) Corp. (Nasdaq:VONE), the market leaders in client/server Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology, Thursday announced that the Information Security Solutions and Products Division (ISSPD ISSPD International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders ) of Motorola Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MOT) has signed an 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 (Original Equipment Manufacturer) agreement to include copies of V-ONE's SmartGate(R) VPN product as part of their CipherNET(R) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of ) offering. "We are extremely pleased to expand our relationship with Motorola to include their systems integration group," said David D. Dawson, chairman and 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 V-ONE Corp. "The Information Security Solutions and Products Division counts as their customers many members of the Global 2000 - all of which are deploying extranets, and are very well suited for SmartGate's ease of deployment and client management." "There's been an upsurge from our customers needing VPN solutions. We must meet this challenge head-on to retain a competitive edge," said Larry Frank, ISSPD's manager of business development. "We view SmartGate as a high quality, easy-to-use solution that will satisfy our customers' extranet requirements. We are very excited that SmartGate will support and leverage our CipherNET PKI solution." The agreement, the second transacted between the two companies this year, follows an engineering pact whereby V-ONE committed to extend their wireline VPN technology, Air SmartGate(TM) to include Motorola's PageWriter 2000 - a two-way pager. ISSPD, Motorola's complex systems integration supplier, provides both internal and external networking solutions. Perhaps SmartGate's most significant advantage for large corporations is its patented On-Line Registration (OLR See offline reader. ) method of client deployment. This enables efficient rollout of the SmartGate client software, SmartPass(R), to a large number of users, a feature particularly important to large enterprises. Users can download the client from a secured website in minutes, eliminating the need for expensive and time-consuming conventional deployment methods while easing the burden on systems administrators. SmartGate VPN runs on a variety of platforms, including Windows NT from Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. from Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ), Solaris from Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) and BSD Unix. SmartGate perfectly complements network firewalls, including products from Check Point Software Technologies (Nasdaq:CHKPF), Axent Technologies (Nasdaq:AXNT), Network Associates (Nasdaq:NETA), IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ). Motorola's line of PKI security solutions includes the CipherNET 1000 Certificate Authority 2.0 and Registrar 2.0. This web-based system features the flexibility of offering buyers the choice of highly secure RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA. (2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key. or ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. elliptic curve technology and runs in a convenient, "lights out" mode. In Nov. 1998, the analyst firm Frost & Sullivan published a study titled U.S. Virtual Private Network Markets which confirmed V-ONE's leading market position -- first among 19 vendors. The study showed V-ONE with 60% market share in the Encryption and Authentication category of the software VPN market, nearly three times as much as its nearest competitor. The study also forecasts years of strong growth for the overall software VPN market, which it expects to continue expanding at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR CAGR See: Compound Annual Growth Rate ) of 76% between 1997-2004. According to Frost & Sullivan, the total market for all VPN products is expected to reach $1.26 billion by 2004. About V-ONE Corporation Providing enterprise-level network security protection since 1993, V-ONE(R) Corp.'s flagship product is SmartGate(R) VPN, the industry's leading client/server VPN technology. Fortune 1000 corporations and sensitive government agencies use SmartGate for its integrated authentication, encryption and access control features. SmartGate is ideal for establishing secure intranets to slash remote access costs and deploying secure business-to-business VPNs in extranet environments to make meaningful electronic commerce between partners a reality. V-ONE is headquartered in Germantown. Product and network security information, white papers and the company's latest news releases may be accessed via V-ONE's World Wide Web site at www.v-one.com. About Motorola Inc. Motorola is a global leader in advanced electronic systems and services. It liberates the power of technology by creating software-enhanced products that provide integrated customer solutions and Internet access via wireless and satellite communications, as well as computing, networking, and automotive electronics. Motorola also provides essential digital building blocks in the form of embedded semiconductors, controls and systems. Sales in 1997 were $29.8 billion. For more information about CipherNET 1000 products, visit Motorola's website at www.ciphernet.motorola.com or contact Frances Connors at 602/441-2027. This release, other than historical financial information, may consist of forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements may differ in a material way from actual future events. For instance, factors, which could cause results to differ from future events, include rapid rates of technological change and intense competition, among others. Readers are also referred to the documents filed by V-ONE Corp. with the SEC, specifically the Company's registration statement as filed on the last report on Form 10-K which identify important risk factors for the Company. All product or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. V-ONE and SmartGate are registered trademarks of V-ONE Corp. Motorola and CipherNET are registered trademarks of Motorola Inc. |
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