Aether Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:AETH), a leading provider of wireless data products and services, today announced the general availability of ScoutWeb(TM) v.1.1, a key software component of the company's ScoutWare(TM) product suite. ScoutWeb allows content providers (enterprise businesses, web portals, publishers) and wireless carriers to deliver intranet and Internet content to mobile workers via handheld devices, whenever and wherever they need it.
ScoutWeb v.1.1 now supports a range of encryption levels, including the highest level of SSL encryption available (128-bit SSL v3). This enables users to access web content and applications through Internet standard SSL connections that were previously unavailable to mobile devices. Following its introduction earlier this year, ScoutWeb has been successfully deployed both by enterprises wanting to distribute web content to mobile employees' devices, as well as by leading internet service providers needing to mobile-enable and distribute a wide variety of Web content and applications to customers handheld devices.
ScoutWeb Brings the Internet to Wireless Enterprise Computing
Unlike other market offerings, ScoutWeb follows a create once, deliver everywhere philosophy. ScoutWeb software dynamically transcodes HTML content for display on HTML-based or WML-based handheld devices using any handheld device browser including the Palm Web Clipping Browser, Pocket Internet Explorer, and WAP enabled smart phones. This create-once, deliver-everywhere approach eliminates the need to build and maintain separate web pages for different devices and browsers, or the need to install proprietary browser software on the hand- held device. Additionally, ScoutWeb lowers production and editorial costs, and eliminates the need to install and upgrade software on the handheld device.
ScoutWeb is part of Aether's ScoutWare family of enterprise products, a comprehensive suite of development tools, management tools, and synchronization technologies that enable corporate professionals to access and update enterprise data from any location using a multitude of handheld devices. ScoutWeb is designed to be device and operating system independent, so enterprise applications can be accessed through a wide variety of devices, including Palms, Windows CE devices, web phones, and pagers. With ScoutWeb, organizations can connect mobile users to web-based legacy, Intranet and Internet applications by dynamically converting content-rich web pages to match the capabilities and screen sizes of all handheld devices.
Other features of ScoutWeb include:
-- Support for HTML, WML, XML, and XHTML;
-- Support for all mobile devices and mobile operating systems including PalmOS, Windows CE and the new generation of smart phones;
-- Mark-up language conversion for content tuning to suit device capability;
-- An interpolation feature which allows for varying degrees of image conversion.
As a leading mobile web content transformation software product, ScoutWeb complements Aether's AirLoom(TM), a hosted wireless service offered by Aether Systems and AlterEgo Networks (announced separately on September 11th). AirLoom is a completely outsourced service requiring customers to do nothing other than determine the content they wish to optimize for wireless devices. It provides an end-to-end content delivery network dedicated to wireless Internet content, including geographically distributed network cluster architecture and direct connections with all the major US wireless carriers. This combination of dynamic adaptation and distributed delivery brings new levels of performance and reliability to wireless Internet services.
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