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October 06, 2009

Mocana Releases NanoCert LTE to the Market

By Jyothi Shanbhag, TMCnet Contributor


Mocana (News - Alert) has released NanoCert LTE, a solution focused on securing LTE / 3GPP / 4G infrastructure devices like eNodeB base stations and serving gateways.


In a release the company says that it has designed this innovative solution specifically for large telecom carrier rollouts. It scales to secure millions of devices.

This new software is designed to lower the development costs associated with securing new LTE (News - Alert) devices, and enables design teams to get new, more secure LTE products to market much faster than before.

NanoCert LTE can also be used with Mocana's IPSec solution NanoSec to achieve connections between LTE eNodeB base stations and LTE serving gateway (SGW) devices.

It uses CMPv2 to secure LTE (Long Term Evolution) infrastructure devices for device-to-device and subscriber authentication, as specified under the international 3GPP standards. NanoCert LTE's LDAPv3 (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) client automatically retrieves appropriate certificates and certificate revocation lists (CRLs) from LDAP servers.

In addition, NanoCert LTE comes with an integrated Oracle database for scalability, and features robust and fast boot-up and recovery, with exclusive logging capabilities. NanoCert LTE's IKE implementation pre-authenticates and pre-validates certificates to prevent dialing delays, even under heavy loads or network outages. Finally, NanoCert LTE is highly configurable and easily adapts to differing operator environments, according to the company.

“The iPhone, Android (News - Alert) and the Palm Pre have made it abundantly clear that the future of the Internet lies in devices that travel with us, not in the box and screen on our office desktops," said Adrian Turner (News - Alert), president and CEO of Mocana, in the release.

According to Turner, the LTE/3GPP standards documents are quite specific about the device integrity and communications security measures needed for these next-generation infrastructure appliances. And NanoCert LTE was built to make securing these new platforms quick, painless and cheap, so that businesses and consumers everywhere can start doing more -- with confidence -- with these revolutionary new platforms.

The company is currently offering NanoCert LTE to developers working on LTE or 4G eNodeB or Serving Gateway (News - Alert) devices. Interested can request free trial of NanoCert LTE at http://mocana.com/nanocert.html.

NanoCert LTE is also available in cross-platform ANSI-C source code, and both source and binary versions include full support for NSA's Suite B algorithms.

Jyothi Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jyothi's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Patrick Barnard


 
 
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