How can you protect and manage the rapidly growing number of wireless devices used by mobile employees to access your enterprise network?
The solution: the industry’s only third-generation VPN that was built from the ground up to enable fearless mobility.
A Mobile VPN optimized for the wireless world
In today’s mobile world—where bandwidth is limited, connections are unstable, roaming is common, battery life is critical, and security is urgent—it’s imperative to deploy a connectivity solution that stands up to the most demanding wireless challenges.
That’s where the Columbitech mobile VPN comes in. Beyond just another VPN, it is the third-generation VPN--based exclusively on the Wireless Transport Layer Protocol (WTLS). WTLS derives from the TLS protocol, but is optimized specifically for low bandwidth networks and mobile devices. It offers all the functionality of the SSL and IPSec VPNs, but was built from the ground up for true mobility.
Increased Security and Lower TCO
Because it is optimized for the wireless world, Columbitech’s mobile VPN delivers powerful operational advantages and offers significantly lower cost of ownership than conventional VPNs:
| • | Increased productivity thanks to session persistence with no need to re-authenticate or restart the application after lost signal, change of network type, or hibernation mode. |
| • | Data recovery after lost signal or hibernation mode insures that data is never lost. |
| • | Advanced data compression provides up to 60 percent increased throughput compared to SSL and IP Sec VPNs, which allows for better performance in low bandwidth networks. |
| • | Requires much less memory footprint (from 70 kB) compared to other VPNs. |
| • | Minimal CPU usage extends the battery life, which is critical in mobile applications. |
| • | The VPN is implemented at the session layer, totally transparent to both the application and the user. This means that Columbitech VPN runs in the background and provides seamless access to any type of application, without any changes to the software. |
| • | The Columbitech solution is completely software based and does not require any additional hardware investment. |
Limitations of conventional VPNs
Why the third generation…and why now? Unfortunately, older conventional VPNs are not up to the challenges of the wireless world.
The conventional VPNs become impractical and inefficient in a true mobile scenario, where a wireless device switches among networks and moves in and out of coverage.
| • | First- and second-generation VPNs are based on IPSec and SSL (TLS) protocols, which have their roots in fixed networking technology. |
| • | These solutions do not offer seamless roaming or advanced data compression for optimized performance over low bandwidth networks. |
Enabling fearless enterprise mobility
Columbitech’s mobile VPN is the most advanced and cost-efficient wireless connectivity solution on the market today--allowing easy and seamless access from any device, network, or application. Simply put, it enables fearless mobility and unleashes the power of wireless--without compromising the security of the enterprise network.