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Stock News Bot Date: November 7, 2006 07:07:00 AM
AXL News Gemalto Scoops 2 Sesames Awards with ''IPv6 embedded stack'' and ''SIM Strong''
VILLEPINTE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gemalto, a world leader in digital security, today announced it has won
the “Best Software of the Year”
and the “Best IT Security
Application of the Year”awards at this
year’s CARTES tradeshow, demonstrating its
leadership in secure personal devices, user centric software and value
added services.
The Sesames awards are a key part of the annual smart card industry
event. They celebrate the unique contribution and investment of leading
industry players like Gemalto in developing next generation products and
solutions for the digital age.
The innovation of “IPv6 embedded stack”
lies in the implementation of an IPv6 communication stack in a smart
card integrating a high-speed protocol communication interface. The
growing trend towards converging all means of communication - data,
voice and video - to a single protocol clearly demonstrated that the
IPv4 address space could not meet the needs of an ever-increasing demand
for IP connected devices. Besides providing a tremendous number of
additional IP addresses, IPv6 brings significant enhancements such as
autoconfiguration and built-in security for data protection. This
innovation definitely makes the smart card a fully-fledged network
citizen in this new connected world.
SIM Strong leverages the ubiquity of SIM-equipped mobile devices to
provide secure access to online content and services. A user with a
valid Identity Provider account and SIM-enabled mobile phone, dongle or
GPRS PC card can easily and securely log on to a host of online services
such as e-commerce or Intranet. The service implements open standards
and is easily deployable and scalable.
About Gemalto
Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO) is a leader in digital security
with pro forma 2005 annual revenues of €1,7 billion
($2.2 billion), operations in 120 countries and 11,000 employees
including 1,500 R&D engineers. The company's solutions make personal
digital interactions secure and easy in a world where everything of
value -from money to entertainment to identities- is increasingly
represented as bits and bytes communicated over networks.
Gemalto thrives on creating and deploying secure platforms, portable and
secure forms of software in highly personal objects like smart cards,
SIMs, e-passports, readers and tokens. More than a billion people
worldwide use the company's products and services for
telecommunications, banking, e-government, identity management,
multimedia content, digital rights management, IT security and other
applications. Gemalto was formed in June 2006 by the combination of
Axalto and Gemplus International S.A. For more information please visit www.gemalto.com.
