Smith Micro Announces New Improvements to the Industry Leading Wireless Connection Manager - QuickLink Mobile Enterprise
Tuesday September 27, 7:00 am ET
SAN FRANCISCO, CTIA Wireless IT 2005, Booth 922, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smith Micro Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMSI - News) a developer and marketer of a wide range of software products and services for the wireless market, announced new feature enhancements to QuickLink® Mobile Enterprise, as well as upgrading the feature set of its popular Mac client to include new enterprise level features.
QuickLink Mobile Enterprise edition is a wireless connection manager designed to meet enterprise user's mobile computing needs for supporting multiple connection options and secure Wi-Fi connections. It utilizes today's broadband wireless networks to connect via 1xRTT/ EV-DO or EDGE/UMTS to a carrier's wireless network. In addition the application can be set to connect to your company's VPN. QuickLink Mobile Enterprise supports a wide variety of the leading VPNs from Microsoft, Cisco, Lucent, Checkpoint, AT&T and Nortel.
The evolution of QuickLink Mobile into a robust enterprise product includes integrating the latest security standards for Wi-Fi networks. The security options added to the QuickLink Mobile Enterprise edition include enterprise level 802.1x wireless LAN authentication compliant methods EAP-MD5, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS and MS-PEAP, WPA and WPA2 security to provide IT manager's access control and security for wireless LAN.
Advanced mobile user features for the QuickLink Mobile Enterprise include the ability to select or automatically launch a connection to your company's VPN, support for both CDMA and GPRS networks, quickly identify and select different Wi-Fi networks including secure 802.1x and WPA networks, SMS messaging support and connection statistics. IT administrator features include a set of Configuration Tools to lock and hide rights to the application's features, set defaults for user preferences and IntelliTracker(TM) to create custom reports such as employee usage and track the number application serial numbers deployed by employees.
"Response to QuickLink Mobile Enterprise has progressed better than we expected," said William W. Smith, Jr., President and CEO of Smith Micro. "We are pleased that we have already one customer that has adopted QuickLink Mobile Enterprise edition and we have many other hot possibilities in the pipeline. Our sales effort has progressed strongly since we introduced QuickLink Mobile Enterprise at this show last year. We announced the availability of the product at the CTIA show last March. At that time we did not anticipate that QuickLink Mobile Enterprise would start contributing to our revenues until 2006. I believe this early win and the pipeline indicates that there is a need for this solution."
QuickLink Mobile for Mac adds enterprise functionality
Smith Micro has added new functionality to its popular QuickLink Mobile Mac client and now has a Mac offering for the enterprise customer. The new client includes support for VPN networks and additional wireless PC Card support. Also added is the IntelliTracker component that allows IT managers to track network usage of their Mac clients.
The new versions of QuickLink Mobile Enterprise will begin shipping by the end of October 2005.
About Smith Micro Software:
Smith Micro Software, Inc., headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA, is a developer and marketer of wireless communication, broadband and utility software products for multiple OS platforms. The company designs integrated cross platform, easy-to-use software for personal computing and business solutions around the world. With a focus on Wireless and Broadband technologies and the Internet, the company's products and services enable wireless communications, file compression, eCommerce, eBusiness, Internet communications (voice-over-IP), video conferencing, network fax, and traditional computer telephony. Smith Micro's complete line of products is available through original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), direct sales on our website, retail stores, and value-added resellers (VARs). Smith Micro's common stock trades on The Nasdaq Stock Market® under the symbol SMSI. For more information, contact Smith Micro at (949) 362-5800 or visit the company's Web site at www.smithmicro.com.
This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including without limitation risks and uncertainties relating to the company's financial prospects and projections, the company's plans for returning to sustained profitability and the company's ability to increase its business in the Wireless and Broadband segments. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are new and changing technologies, customer acceptance of those technologies, fluctuations or cancellations in orders from distribution customers, new and continuing adverse economic conditions, and the company's ability to compete effectively with other software companies. These and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those presented in any forward-looking statement and are discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its recent filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.
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Source: Smith Micro Software, Inc.
