2009-04-16

Birdstep challenges Mobile VPN market in Sweden

Birdstep Technology is launching SafeMove Mobile VPN software to the Swedish market. SafeMove has a very strong position in Finland as the market leader and having a wide range of customer organizations within government, healthcare, finance and defence sectors. Finnish customers have chosen SafeMove for its unparalleled user experience with “zero-click connectivity” while not compromising security. SafeMove in now launched and introduced to the Swedish market, with immediate availability.

SafeMove enables seamless mobility, which empowers employees to access an organization’s information resources, independently of time and place. Roaming from one network to another is automatic and seamless, involving no user intervention and creating no interruptions in communications. Mobile workers can automatically take advantage of the best available wired or wireless network, without hassles or any special skills. And just as importantly, these seamless connections are fully secured with robust user authentication and strong encryption. With SafeMove, the mobile worker can be productive virtually everywhere. For the enterprise, this means achieving a high return on investment, that results from maximizing mobile workforce productivity while minimizing wireless access costs.

SafeMove Mobile VPN solution is designed according to proven industry standards (IPsec, Mobile IP) to ensure full interoperability with existing infrastructure and making it easy to deploy and operate securely in any enterprise network.

For further information, please contact:

Torbjörn Sandberg
CEO of Birdstep Technology ASA
+46 705170964
Torbjorn.Sandberg@birdstep.com

Matti Mujunen
EVP and General Manager Business Unit SafeMove
CEO Birdstep Enterprise OY
+358 400 476 401
matti.mujunen@birdstep.com

 

Birdstep Technology ASA is a software vendor listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE) under the ticker `BIRD`. The company has four business segments, located in Norway, Sweden, Finland and the United States: EasyConnect offers connection and service management clients for network operators and lap top manufacturers, Orbyte offers network operators to rapidly deploy and manage large networks with advanced features, SafeMove provides seamless and safe connectivity to business data for OEM-providers and corporations, while Raima provides enterprises with high-performance embedded databases for in-memory database usage and persistent storage devices. The company has 100 employees and is headquartered in Oslo.  For additional information about Birdstep’s products, services, partners and customers please visit us at www.birdstep.com.