NetMotion Wireless White Papers

These papers range in subject matter from how NetMotion Mobility works in a wireless LAN environment and its benefits on a WWAN, to the NetMotion Wireless effort to develop a standard for doing a "roaming handoff." For access to the papers, follow any link below and log in using your e-mail address. A first-time user will be asked a few more questions; a returning user will see the requested paper.

Note that many papers are temporarily unavailable while they are undergoing revision and update. Please check back in the near future for updated papers.

Be sure to also see the NetMotion Mobility technical notes for information on platform support, installation, configuration, and so on.

Security for Wireless Networks
In an enterprise that includes a wireless network, authenticating users and keeping communications confidential are more problematic than they are with a wired network in a secure facility. Read this white paper to find out how NetMotion Mobility prevents unauthorized users from gaining access to your system, and how it stops eavesdropping, replay, and other network-level attacks.

Wireless essentials

Technical Overview for Network Administrators
This document discusses some of the operational and technical details of NetMotion Mobility XE. It is particularly useful to network administrators who require a deeper understanding of how Mobility XE functions, before deploying it in their environment.

Wireless wide area networks

NetMotion Mobility XE Link Optimizations for Wireless WANs
NetMotion Mobility is designed to provide optimum performance over intermittent and bandwidth-challenged network links (like a WWAN). Its architecture includes enhancements to allow network traffic over IP to more effectively deal with momentary loss of connectivity from a mobile device, whether due to coverage outages or external factors, such as power management or user intervention.