October 24, 2001

WAP Gateways - the technology that enables users of mobile phones to access the Internet – are the starting point for providing mobile services. The first generation of WAP Gateways was complex, slow, unreliable and expensive; as a result there was a fairly poor market acceptance for WAP technology.

Nextenso presents the new generation WAP Gateway with its “Nx WAP Gateway," combining a high-performance architecture with robustness, scalability and high availability.  "Nx WAP Gateway" enables mobile operators to take advantage of all existing wireless networks (GSM, GPRS), as well as future evolutions. 

“Nx WAP Pack”: highly secure

~ “Nx WAP Gateway” allows for a multi-zoned deployment: secure zones for sensitive information, a flexible authentication policy to define zones, and a proxy interface for a perfectly controlled security policy. 

~ “Nx WAP Gateway” gives the operator the possibility to re-use their existing user databases, in order to reduce the risks of security infractions.

“Nx WAP Pack”: a cost effective architecture

~ Hardware costs up to 40 times less

~ Software costs up to 2 times less 

~ Installation costs up to 5 times less  

Thanks to “Nx WAP Pack”, Nextenso enables its customers to optimize their installation and operational costs with standard administration interfaces, powerful and complete logs and simple software upgrade procedures.  Furthermore, Nextenso helps its customers with its 24/7 maintenance and support service. 

Nx WAP Gateway: secure, high-performance, cost-effective architecture

Technical Appendix

The Nx WAP Pack regroups Nextenso's “Nx WAP Gateway” and “Nx Radius Driver."

More options can be proposed:

~ To enable service-access management: Nx Distributed Authentication Service and Nx Service and Profile Management

~ To offer personalized homepages to users:Nx Personalized Homepage

~ To offer bookmarks, calendar, address book and mail: Nx Personal Information Management and Nx Universal Mail Client

Recommended hardware configuration:

Processor:  Pentium III 800 MHZ à 100 URL/s

RAM: 512 MB

Disk: 4GB

Linux Mandrake Version 7.1

Java JDK 1.3

Price: USD$ 2000

Guarantee: 3 years

Maintenance: 24/7