V-ONE and SkyTel Announce Commercial Release of Air SmartGate - Secure Wireless Messaging Solution for ReFLEX Protocol-Based Narrow Band PCS Networks

Nationwide Service to be Provided Over the SkyTel Network

V-ONE(R) Corporation (NASDAQ: VONE), a market leader in client/server Virtual Private Networks (VPN), today announced that SkyTel, a WorldCom company, is deploying V-ONE's AirSmartGate secure messaging system to provide enhanced security for two-way pagers.

SkyTel will offer the new encryption service to government markets first, then to Fortune 500 clients across the U.S.

Providing both encryption and authentication services, the AirSmartGate Server works in concert with Motorola Inc.'s (NYSE: MOT) line of personal interactive communicators such as the PageWriter 2000X, the Timeport TM P930 and the Timeport P935 models. Motorola is a global leader in providing integrated communications and embedded electronic solutions.

V-ONE's AirSmartGate product utilizes a patent-pending wireless security scheme for pager-to-server communications and was developed in close coordination with Motorola to ensure compatibility with ReFLEX (TM) two-way devices. AirSmartGate increases the security of pager-to-pager, pager-to-email and email-to-pager text messages. In addition, it can secure vertical applications developed specifically for these devices. V-ONE has extended its award winning SmartGateTM VPN technology into the wireless environment by developing support for Motorola's ReFLEX (TM) high-speed transport protocol.

In today's fast paced business world, more and more business professionals are relying on wireless mobile data services for their day-to-day information needs. Interactive pagers and Narrowband PCS (Personal Communications Service) networks are now being used for a wide variety of business applications such as accessing corporate email, generating stock transactions, or delivering time-critical patient information.

Now, more than ever, communications privacy over wireless data networks is of paramount importance. Sensitive and confidential information must be made private for health care organizations, law enforcement, financial institutions, government agencies and sensitive corporate environments.

V-ONE developed AirSmartGate specifically to address these needs and to ensure that wireless communications are made private for business. AirSmartGate safeguards against cloning, eavesdropping and message tampering by offering carriers utilizing the ReFLEX TM protocol, two-factor authentication and strong data encryption using a key length of 128-bits.

The AirSmartGate server integrates easily into a customer's enterprise network and seamlessly connects to the SkyTel Network Operations Center (NOC) via the Internet to provide secure transmission of information across both the wireless and wireline portion of the data path. The client software deploys easily on the customer's pager via V-ONE's patented On-Line Registration (OLR) process and enables the user to send and receive secure messages after authenticating themselves with the AirSmartGate servers.

"While our messaging service already contains exceptional levels of security, some government agencies want even stronger encryption to protect their most sensitive data," said Bruce Deer, SkyTel's Chief Technical Officer. "With AirSmartGate, we can now offer our customers end-to-end security using strong 128-bit encryption and two-factor authentication when requirements demand the highest levels of communications privacy. We are pleased to be working with V-ONE as our security partner as we believe they have the most complete wireless security solutions available on the market today".

"The real beauty of this solution is that this valuable functionality is built right into the device - most third party applications can hook into it and send and receive messages with this enhanced security feature via the AirSmartGate server - its that simple said Neil Eastman, Director of Motorola's Platform Software Group."

"SkyTel's deployment of our secure messaging solution highlights the flexibility of V-ONE's core SmartGate(R) product, since AirSmartGate is powered by the same patented technology that our wireline VPN customers use," said David D. Dawson, Chairman and CEO of V-ONE Corporation. "We believe our leadership advantage in providing security solutions to wireless messaging networks in addition to being the only VPN that supports mobile platforms such as Windows CE will serve as an increasingly important differentiator for V-ONE."


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