Meetinghouse describes the Authentication SDK as a highly portable embeddable source code library for enabling fast 802.1X authenticator functionality in network access server (NAS) devices such as wireless access points, wired/wireless routers, and switches. The company claims an installed base of over 200 million computer networking devices worldwide.

Among the key feature updates and upgrades in the new release are:

• Portable interface across OSes -- Windows, Windows CE, Linux
  
• Modular EAP library
  
• CCX v4 support
  
• EAP -- TLV plug-in interface (EAP methods with TLV extensions)
  
• EAP-FAST, EAP-SIM v16, SmartCard
  
• 802.11i pre-authentication
  
• Credential management
  
• 802.11 radio management

Earlier this year, Meetinghouse announced a collaboration with iPass to simplify and further advance 802.1x-based network access security for mobile devices with the intent to implement end-to-end protection across the Internet -- all the way from the device to the enterprise.

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