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Mobility XE eliminates the frustration and complexity of deploying a wireless computing solution. It's a software solution independent of underlying wireless infrastructure or technology and works with all standards-based wireless hardware. Mobility provides centralized control over all wireless clients through a single, unified management console, including the ability to establish detailed rules to control application-level traffic. Whatever the client form factor or network used—public or private—Mobility XE ensures a secure connection with full encryption and authentication for every user session.
There are four powerful reasons why IT staff responsible for wireless networks want Mobility XE. For even more reasons, contact your GD-Itronix Mobility XE representative.
1. Increase wireless worker mobility & productivity
Mobility XE eliminates wasted time and frustration caused when users have to log on, relaunch applications, and recover lost data because their wireless connections break due to coverage gaps, interference, or suspending a device.
With Mobility XE, workers can roam freely and seamlessly between subnets in a building, across a campus, or between different network types—from LAN to WAN to wireless WAN—without any disruption of the applications in use.
Best of all, Mobility XE optimizes all your existing applications for use over a wireless network. You just have to install the software. Your workers get complete mobile, wireless access to all the applications and network resources they’re accustomed to on their desktops?or you can control what applications they can access wirelessly.
2. Increase security benefits
Mobility XE allows you to deploy a secure solution that protects your data, mobile clients and network from the threats of the public Internet, even as workers roam from internal LAN to WLAN and public wireless WANs.
3. Enhance the benefit of your legacy systems
Mobility XE enables you to deploy legacy or third-party applications in a wireless world with the reliability and security you are accustomed to in a wired network environment.
No other networking solution offers the level of compatibility, ease of use, and return on investment inherent in GD-Itronix Mobility XE.
4. Policy Management benefits
Mobility XE boasts a Policy Management module that provides centralized, flexible control over what users and applications are allowed to do in wired and wireless network environments. Policies can be defined based on the name or speed of the network interface, with fine-grained rules that block or allow data traffic based on a variety of factors.
To Wrap it Up...
Through its robust server software and support for a wide range of client platforms, Mobility XE provides a continuous, secure connection between mobile clients and enterprise applications—no matter what networks mobile workers use or traverse.
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KEY FEATURES
Mobility XE Provides:
- Roamable VPN
- InterNetwork Roaming™
- Application Session Persistence
- Policy Management Module
- Web-based Mobility Console
- Compression and Link Optimizations
- Best-Bandwidth Routing™
And, unlike complex middleware or hardware-based solutions, implementing Mobility XE requires no changes to existing enterprise applications, hardware or networks.
For IT managers, Mobility XE eliminates the frustration and complexity of deploying and managing a wireless computing solution. Mobility XE is a software solution independent of underlying wireless infrastructure and technology and works with all standards-based wireless hardware. Mobility XE provides centralized control over all wireless clients through a single, unified management console, including the ability to establish detailed rules to control application-level traffic. Whatever the client form factor or network used—public or private— Mobility XE ensures a secure connection with full-encryption and authentication for every user session.
For mobile workers, Mobility XE makes wireless simple. Mobile workers log in and have access to applications and services just as they do when using an enterprise LAN. Connections are faster and more reliable and mobile workers can roam freely without losing data or restarting applications or VPN. To enterprise applications and servers, Mobility XE is completely transparent. Clients appear to have a single, persistent connection and fixed IP address. Applications don't have to be rewritten to accommodate wireless, because Mobility XE enables any IP-based application to maintain a continuous, secure connection—regardless of the network mobile workers use or move across.
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Mobility XE is made up of two parts:
1. A lightweight client that is installed on every wireless notebook,
HP/C or handheld device.
2. Server software that, among other tasks, acts as proxy to enterprise application servers.
Through this simple architecture, Mobility XE:
- Enables any enterprise application to work over wireless networks without modification or customization.
- Ensures data is secure no matter what network or devices mobile workers use.
- Eliminates lost data and application crashes, even when mobile workers move outside of network coverage or suspend and resume their devices.
- Turns a multi-network environment, including enterprise LANs, wireless LANs, dial-up or public wireless wide area networks (wireless WANs), into a single, unified network.
- Is simple and easy to install and use, making it painless to deploy (installations typically require hours—not days), easy to manage and transparent to mobile workers.
The reasons wireless networking is in great demand are clear. The need for Mobility XE is even clearer:
Mobility XE eliminates the frustration and complexity of deploying and managing a wireless computing solution.
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SECURITY
In a wireless environment, data is no longer contained within the secure setting of an enterprise LAN—it's traversing public airwaves and is vulnerable to data corruption, eavesdropping and unauthorized access. Traditional VPN solutions are not designed to work over wireless networks and are difficult to use. As a result, they are slow and crash frequently—when they work at all.
To address these concerns, Mobility XE's Roamable VPN incorporates a standards-based, secure virtual private network designed for wireless networking that integrates single-sign-on authentication. Mobile workers use standard Microsoft® Windows® login credentials—there are no additional steps to learn or passwords to remember. The Mobility XE Roamable VPN encrypts all data transmitted between the client and server using 128-bit AES (IT managers also can select 56-bit DES, 112-bit DES [triple-DES] or 128-bit Twofish). The algorithm used is configurable globally or on a per-user basis, and can be disabled for mobile workers who do not require this level of security. Key exchange occurs via Diffie-Hellman or ECC.
Mobility XE supports native authentication, including:
- RADIUS
- Microsoft® Windows NT® domains
- NTLMv2
- Microsoft® Active Directory®
- Kerberos
- PKI
- Workgroup-level authentication
A Single, Unified Network
The days of a single, wired, high-speed LAN are behind us. Today’s mobile workers use multiple public and private networks that may include multiple subnets within a wireless LAN, wireless WANs or even dial-up—all of which have different security and performance characteristics.
Through Mobility XE's InterNetwork Roaming™, mobile workers can now make these network transitions seamlessly, transparently and securely, turning a multi-network environment into a single, unified network.
The Mobility XE server makes InterNetwork Roaming possible by acting as a proxy between clients and enterprise application servers. For every client, the Mobility XE server establishes a virtual IP address to be used in all communication with enterprise application servers. This virtual IP address will be used regardless of whether the client is connecting via an enterprise wireless LAN, public Wi-Fi hotspot or wireless WAN. The Mobility XE server then forwards data sent to a client's virtual address (which is known to the enterprise application server) on to the client's actual, current wireless point-of-presence (POP) address.
As a result, even as clients move and are assigned new IP addresses by various networks, enterprise application servers never see these changes—only an unchanging virtual IP address. There is no need to resegment networks, implement VLANs or deploy additional hardware to enable mobile workers to roam freely.
In addition, InterNetwork Roaming is tightly integrated with Mobility XE's Roamable VPN, so no matter where client devices move, mobile workers are automatically authenticated and encrypted tunnels are established.
No Lost Data or Crashed Applications
Mobile workers do more than cross network boundaries; they also move into areas where there is no coverage—parking garages, stairwells and even airplanes—or suspend and resume their devices as a way of conserving battery life. When existing enterprise applications encounter these situations, they typically crash. User data is lost and productivity of mobile workers suffers.
Because the Mobility XE server acts as a proxy server, it is able to provide Application Session Persistence, maintaining session states if connections are broken and masking service interruptions from any running applications. And, when a client reconnects, the Mobility XE server automatically resumes sending and receiving data from the point of last transmission.
The Mobility XE server controls data flow between clients and enterprise application servers through remote procedure calls and adjustments to TCP/IP window sizes—not by caching data. This enables the Mobility XE server to maintain sessions for large numbers of mobile workers for extended periods.
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CONTROL
Mobility XE brings wireless computers under the control of standard IT management practices. With Mobility XE, IT managers can tighten wireless security by enabling automatic virus scanning, operating system and desktop application management updates on computers with limited broadband access. They can reduce airtime costs by enabling centralized control over which applications users can access, i.e., limiting access to specified applications when connected via WWAN, and improve productivity by prohibiting "bandwidth hungry" applications from operating over low bandwidth networks.
POLICY MANAGEMENT OPTIONS
Mobility XE addresses these challenges by providing a set of centralized, flexible management tools that enable IT managers to:
- Establish policies centrally and distribute to individual clients where they may be viewed but not altered.
- Enforce IT and corporate security policies by assigning rules globally, to specific workgroups, individuals or devices.
- Manage bandwidth usage and costs by preventing mobile workers from using certain applications or downloading large files based on:
- The network to which a user is connected.
- The type or speed of a network interface.
- Detailed rules that block or allow data traffic based on application name, port or IP address.
As an example, an IT manager may establish a rule allowing a workgroup to browse the web only when on the corporate wireless LAN but not when connected to a wireless WAN.
MAXIMIZE NETWORK PERFORMANCE
Most applications have been designed to operate over wire at gigabit speeds. Since many wireless networks may be slowed by traffic and have variable latency, existing applications typically don't perform well in a wireless environment. Mobility XE mitigates this issue by incorporating data Compression and Link Optimizations.
Rather than using TCP, Mobility XE uses IP UDP which is more efficient. The Mobility XE server automatically compensates for differences between wireline and wireless networks by adjusting frame size and protocol timing to reduce network chatter. To improve performance and minimize the effects of network latency, Mobility XE compresses all traffic between client and server, reducing the number of packets sent, which can reduce costs when using a wireless WAN.
Finally, through Mobility XE's Best-Bandwidth Routing™, if multiple interfaces are available, the Mobility XE client automatically uses the interface reporting the fastest connection.
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