HAYWARD, Calif., August 21, 2001 - Certicom (Nasdaq: CERT; TSE: CIC), a leading provider of mobile e-business security, has signed an agreement with Nortel Networks* to bundle a 30-day trial of Certicom's movianVPN™, the industry's first broadly interoperable IPSec wireless virtual private network (VPN) client for handheld devices, with Nortel Networks Contivity* VPN Switch. With this solution, Nortel Networks' customers can extend their Contivity VPNs to popular handheld computing platforms. Certicom has also joined the Nortel Networks Contivity Associates Program to enhance their joint customer experience through marketing and technical collaboration.
movianVPN will benefit wireless operators by helping them overcome the unique security, power, and processing requirements of a mobile environment where devices such as PDAs run on batteries and have lower processing capacity.
As part of today's announcement, Certicom's movianVPN software will be shipping with Nortel Networks family of Contivity VPN switches. This will enable enterprises to provide secure wireless access to their Contivity-based corporate VPNs. After a 30-day trial, corporations can license the movianVPN client directly from Certicom. movianVPN allows companies to extend critical enterprise applications such as e-mail and customer relationship management (CRM) tools to mobile professionals using popular PalmOS® 3.5 or Windows CE 3.0-based devices.
Previously, Certicom announced that Nortel Networks licensed elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) for the Contivity VPN Switch, which enables a fast connection between Certicom's client and the VPN gateway. Certicom's ECC technology is ideally suited for securing wireless devices that are limited by low processing speed, network bandwidth and battery power.
"Nortel Networks users are strongly represented in the deployment of movianVPN today, and we are excited that this agreement will get the product into the hands of the IT professional as conveniently as possible," said Jennifer Vancini, managing director at Certicom. "Today's announcement represents an important relationship with an industry leader, and demonstrates Certicom's foothold in providing enterprises with capabilities for leveraging their VPN infrastructure to small devices."
For more information on movianVPN, visit http://www.moviansecurity.com .
About Certicom
Certicom is a leading provider of information security software and services, specializing in solutions for mobile e-business. The company's products and services are specifically designed to address the challeCerticomnges imposed by a wireless data environment. Certicom's solutions incorporate its efficient encryption technology and are based on industry standards for information security that utilize public key cryptography. Certicom's products are currently licensed to more than 200 customers including Cisco Systems, Inc., Handspring Inc., Motorola, Inc., Nortel Networks, Openwave Systems, Inc., Palm, Inc., QUALCOMM, Inc., Research In Motion Ltd. and Sony International (Europe) GmbH. Certicom's headquarters and worldwide sales and marketing operations are based in the Silicon Valley in Hayward. For more information, visit Certicom's Web site at http://www.certicom.com.
Certicom, movian and movianVPN are trademarks or registered trademarks of Certicom Corp. All other companies and products listed herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
* Nortel Networks and Contivity are trademarks of Nortel Networks.
Except for historical information contained herein, this press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially. Factors that might cause a difference include, but are not limited to, those relating to the acceptance of mobile and wireless devices and the continued growth of e-commerce and m-commerce, the increase of the demand for mutual authentication in m-commerce transactions, the acceptance of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) technology as an industry standard, the market acceptance of our principal products and sales of our customer's products, the impact of competitive products and technologies, the possibility of our products infringing patents and other intellectual property of fourth parties, and costs of product development. Certicom will not update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. More detailed information about potential factors that could affect Certicom's financial results is included in the documents Certicom files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission and Canadian securities regulatory authorities.
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Lorraine Kauffman
Corporate Communications
Certicom Corp.
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