News about "VPN Client for Android"
The recently announce Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" includes a new API for controlling the internal core VPN functionality. NCP will now concentrate on using this interface to develop an NCP Secure Client that provides NCP specific benefits such as:
- compatibility to the numerous VPN gateways on the market
- connection to the NCP Secure Enterprise Management
- VPN Path Finder Technology, and
- Seamless Roaming.
Ice Cream Sandwich is due for release in December 2011 and will be available for Smartphones and Tablets. An initial version of the NCP Secure Client based on Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" is planned to be available during Q1/2012.
Until now, manufacturer specific restrictions meant that, with current Android based devices (< version 4.0), an NCP Secure Client could not be procured via the normal Android market and then installed on such a device. The NCP Secure Client currently available for Android requires a "rooted" device or, in special cases, a specially tailored Android kernel.
This latest version of Android software means that with Android systems based on version 4.0 or later, this restriction is now a thing of the past and that the new NCP Secure Clients will be installable in exactly the same way as every other Android-market application.
For more information please send an Email to android-vpn@ncp-e.com