IBM Mobile Connect V6.1.5 provides enhanced platform support and integration with IBM Connections Mobile, IBM Sametime Mobile, and IBM Lotus Traveler
IBM United States Software Announcement 212-313November 20, 2012
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IBM® Mobile Connect V6.1.5 helps make it easier for mobile users to:
- Take advantage of security-rich features to access important information across multiple networks.
- Conduct business and collaborate at any time from virtually anywhere.
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| Overview |
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IBM Mobile Connect V6.1.5 is a distributed, scalable, multipurpose communications software platform. IBM Mobile Connect is designed to help:
- Optimize bandwidth while reducing costs.
- Take advantage of security-rich features.
- Create a mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN) that can encrypt data over vulnerable wireless local area network (LAN) and wireless wide area network (WAN) connections.
- Efficiently extend existing instant messaging (IM) and enterprise applications to mobile workers.
New features
- A new Mobility Client for Android phones and tablets that run Android V4 (Ice Cream Sandwich). You get the same full VPN client optimized experience already available for Windows™ , Mac OS X, Linux™ , Windows Mobile, and Symbian expanding the choice of devices for the mobile workforce.
- An updated Mobility Client for Mac that provides 64-bit kernel support and removes the need to boot a Mac in 32-bit mode in order to use the Mobility Client with Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.8.
- An updated Connection Manager that provides 64-bit support for AIX® , Linux , and Windows . You can take advantage of current hardware and operating systems to better leverage 64-bit implementations.
- HTTP access services that now support single URL configuration and URL rewriting for various types of documents common to IBM Connections and other HTTP transaction-based applications. In addition, support for parsing certain document types, scanning for internal URLs, and rewriting them to force the traffic through the IBM Mobile Connect secure transport delivers additional flexibility.
- Applications such as IBM Connections Mobile, IBM Lotus® iNotes® , and others can now include documents with links to other internal sites and have those sites reachable through IBM Mobile Connect. Configuration is simplified and helps extend specific web-based solutions to the mobile workforce without exposing the entire intranet.
- Added support for connecting to multiple backend application servers (for example, IBM Lotus Notes® Traveler High Availability servers) in a single HTTP access service definition that enables improved deployment flexibility. You now get capabilities such as load balancing, failover, and URL pattern matching and substitution.
- Added support for IBM Connections Mobile and IBM Sametime® Mobile awareness and integration that provides support for detecting IBM Connections Mobile traffic, IBM Sametime Mobile traffic, and enables functions such as URL rewriting and single URL configuration. You get options such as photo lookup so you can use the same HTTP service definition improving the ease of configuration, deployment, and end-user capabilities.
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| Key prerequisites |
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Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.
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| Planned availability date |
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November 26, 2012: Electronic availability
December 4, 2012: Media availability
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| Description |
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IBM Mobile Connect V6.1.5 is application agnostic and can be used in conjunction with many applications that are both web based (via clientless Virtual Private Network (VPN) and client based (via traditional VPN client) including IBM Lotus iNotes , IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, IBM Lotus Notes , IBM Sametime , IBM Connections, IBM WebSphere® Portal, and IBM Lotus Quickr® . You can encrypt business applications and extend them to mobile users using a desktop, laptop, or handheld mobile device outside of the traditional office while providing an additional layer of access security to enterprise applications whose infrastructure is located in corporate intranets.
IBM Mobile Connect helps protect sensitive information transmitted over wireless networks and allows mobile users to maintain session persistence through seamless network roaming. It also helps reduce mobile transmission costs and lowers connection fees through data optimization.
With IBM Mobile Connect, you can use an extensive list of standard Internet Protocol (IP) and non-IP wireless bearer networks, server hardware, device operating systems, and mobile security protocols. By creating a mobile VPN, IBM Mobile Connect goes well beyond the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) level of security offered by other (mobile and nonmobile) products.
Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act
IBM Mobile Connect is capable as of December 4, 2012, when used in accordance with IBM's associated documentation, of satisfying the applicable requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, provided that any assistive technology used with the product properly interoperates with it. A US Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT), containing details on the products accessibility compliance, can be requested on the following website
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Product description Language GA date
IBM Mobile Connect V6.1.5 Multilingual December 4, 2012
(French,
Korean,
Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
English US,
Italian)
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| Program number |
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Program VRM Program name number 5724-R20 6.1.5 IBM Mobile Connect
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| Offering Information |
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Product information is available via the Offering Information website
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No publications are shipped with this product.
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
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Software requirements
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Limitations
Mobility Client is software that runs locally on user devices and offers a full-function interface to communicate with Connection Manager. Once Mobility Client authenticates to Connection Manager, a VPN is established and the device securely joins the enterprise intranet. Connection Manager supports standard IP routing (includes routing over non-IP wireless bearer networks) to help ensure unbroken, end-to-end Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) sessions between mobile devices and application servers. Mobility Client also includes a toolkit and application program interfaces to create network-aware applications. Limitations may apply to some devices.
For additional information, refer to the license information document that is available on the IBM Software License Agreement website
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Licensed function title Product group Product
category
IBM Mobile Connect IBM Mobile IBM Mobile
Connect Connect
Program name PID Charge unit
number description
IBM Mobile Connect 5724-R20 Processor-Days
IBM Mobile Connect 5724-R20 PA Per VU Value
Unit
IBM Mobile Connect 5724-R20 PA Per
Authorized User
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IBM Mobile Connect
Part description Part
number
IBM Mobile Connect
IBM Mobile Connect per Authorized User Annual SW S&S E033MLL
Rnwl
IBM Mobile Connect per Authorized User Lic + SW S&S 12 D59QLLL
Mo
IBM Mobile Connect per Authorized User SW S&S Reinstate D59QNLL
12 Mo
IBM Mobile Connect per Value Unit Annual SW S&S Rnwl E033LLL
IBM Mobile Connect per Value Unit Lic + SW S&S 12 Mo D59QKLL
IBM Mobile Connect per Value Unit SW S&S Reinstate 12 D59QMLL
Mo
Passport Advantage supply
Program name/description Part
number
IBM Mobile Connect V6.1.5
IBM Mobile Connect SUSE Linux family,Solaris SPARC AH177ML
Platform Edition (Sun)
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
IBM Mobile Connect V6.1.5
Entitled maintenance Media packs description Part
offerings description number
IBM Mobile Connect per IBM Mobile Connect SUSE AH177ML
Authorized User Linux family,Solaris SPARC
Platform Edition (Sun)
IBM Mobile Connect per IBM Mobile Connect SUSE AH177ML
Value Unit Linux family,Solaris SPARC
Platform Edition (Sun)
On/Off CoD
IBM Mobile Connect
Part description Part
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IBM Mobile Connect Processor Day Per Use-DAY, On Off D59QJLL
Capacity on dem
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IBM Mobile Connect 5724-R20 L-PMMR-83LH3L
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No
Educational allowance available
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