RSA Conference 2008

Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 3500 Offers Unique One-stop Shop for Laptop Security

| Apr 9, 2008 | Enterprise Mobility - U.S. | Show Update

| Analyst: Kitty Weldon

Current Perspective: Positive Vendor Importance: Moderate Market Impact: Moderate

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Event Summary

April 8, 2008 -- Alcatel-Lucent is expanding the set of partners whose solutions it has integrated with its OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian product. New vendors include Phoenix Technologies, Sierra Wireless, Utimaco, and SafeNet, and they are providing solutions ranging from two-factor authentication, encryption, and backup/recovery to VPN software. The product is offered through Sprint in the U.S. HSPA support will be available later this year.

Analytical Summary

• Current Perspective: Positive on Alcatel-Lucent’s expansion of its ecosystem for the OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian (NLG), because the vendor will be offering a veritable one-stop shop for mobile laptop security, in conjunction with its carrier partners and a growing set of security software vendors including Phoenix Technologies, Utimaco, SafeNet, and wireless PC card/module specialist Sierra Wireless.

• Vendor Importance: Moderate to Alcatel-Lucent, as the product has already been gaining traction and industry accolades since its trials last November, its announcement with Sprint last spring, and its commercial availability in February. It received the 2007 Product of the Year from “Internet Telephony” magazine. Alcatel-Lucent also hopes to gain sales through European carriers offering managed security services (leveraging HSPA) to business customers.

• Market Impact: Moderate on the enterprise mobility market, as momentum has suffered due to the fragmented ecosystem for mobile security, which requires businesses to source different solutions from a variety of different vendors, piece them together, and manage them themselves. By integrating software, firmware, and hardware from partners for encryption, data protection, asset location, and other pieces of the security puzzle, the OmniAccess 3500 can alleviate the pressure on IT and help “de-fragment” the ecosystem at the same time, which will pose a competitive threat to smaller, independent security vendors.

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