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ActivCard
www.activecard.com
ActivCard is the leader in IDentity Management (IDM) software for remote access, secure sign-on and digital ID card solutions. Our scalable IDM and strong authentication solutions are trusted by organizations – from enterprise to governments around the world. ActivCard IDM systems deliver maximum Return On Identity™ (ROI) through increased security, reduced cost, and user convenience. The modular product design allows our customers to add capabilities as required, preserving their investment. return to top
Alcatel (Founding Member)
www.alcatel.com
Alcatel provides end-to-end communications solutions, enabling carriers, service providers and enterprises to deliver content to any type of user, anywhere in the world. Leveraging its long-term leadership in telecommunications network equipment as well as its expertise in applications and network services, Alcatel enables its customers to focus on optimizing their service offerings and revenue streams. With sales of EURO 16.5 billion in 2002, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. return to top
Aspects Software Ltd (Founding Member)
www.aspects-sw.com
Aspects Software is the leading independent provider of operating systems, application development and test tools for smart cards. Aspects Java Card Operating System, provides the opportunity to license a world-class smart card Operating System, available on a variety of silicon, to enable development and deployment in any vertical sector that will benefit from a truly open smart card implementation. return to top
Athena Smart Card Solutions
www.athena-scs.com
Athena develops and produces cryptographic smart card operating systems, smart cards, PKI middleware, smart card SDKs and smart card readers for the Enterprise and Goverment markets.
Atmel (Founding Member)
www.atmel.com
Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, California with manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe. Atmel designs, manufactures and markets worldwide, advanced logic, mixed-signal, non-volatile memory and RF semiconductors. Atmel is a leading provider of secure IC products for the Smart Card industry and also a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions using CMOS, BiCMOS, SiGe and high-voltage BCDMOS process technologies. return to top
Axalto (Founding Member)
www.axalto.com
Axalto, formerly known as Schlumberger Smart Cards & Terminals, is the world's leading provider of microprocessor cards (Gartner, 2003, Frost & Sullivan 2003) — the key to digital networks — and a major supplier of Point-of-sale terminals. Its 4500 employees serve customers in more than 100 countries, with worldwide sales exceeding 2.6 billion smart cards to date. The company has more than 20 years' experience in smart card innovation and leads its industry in security technology and open systems.
Axalto continuously creates new generations of products for use in a variety of applications in the telecommunications, finance, retail, transport, entertainment, healthcare, personal identification, information technology and public sector markets. Smart card solutions provide convenience, security and privacy to public and private services operators, their customers and end users.
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Dai Nippon Printing(Founding Member)
www.dnp.co.jp.
Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) is one of the world's largest comprehensive printing companies, with annual sales of approximately US $9.9 billion* and 35,000 employees (as of March 2002). DNP's wide range of businesses includes publication printing, commercial printing, smart cards, business forms, network businesses and electronic components. DNP started smart card R&D since 1981 and its smart card business covers the development of card operating systems including Java Card(TM), MULTOS and proprietary systems, application development, card manufacturing as well as bureau services. In the field of mobile communications, DNP participated in the world first implementation of a 3rd generation SIM card. return to top
(* US. dollar amounts have been translated from yen at the rate of 133yen=U.S.$1, the approximate Tokyo foreign exchange market rated as of March 31,2002. Java, and Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the US. and other countries.)
ENST (Founding Member)
www.enst.fr
The ENST, a state of the art institution in the fields of technology and innovation, has four major missions which pay tribute to its pedagogical excellence and its international dimension. These missions include research, engineering studies, research-oriented study, and lifelong learning.
The ENST laboratories are part of GET-Recherche, over the last few decades, it has gained a recognized position internationally in its technical domains. In addition to working on developments in the basic sciences, research at ENST also aims at broadening its field of study, moving in particular towards systems integration, innovative services on the Internet and in other media, and the analysis of users' communication practices and their social impact. ENST thus covers all aspects of Information Technologies. return to top
Gemplus (Founding Member)
www.gemplus.com
GEMPLUS: the world's leading provider of smart card solutions.
Gemplus helps its clients offer an exceptional range of portable, personalized solutions that bring security and convenience to people's lives. These include mobile Internet access, interoperable banking facilities, e-commerce and a wealth of other applications. Gemplus is the only completely dedicated, truly global player in the Smart Card industry, with the largest R&D team, unrivaled experience, and an outstanding track record of technological innovation.
In 2001, Gemplus was the worldwide smart card leader in both revenue and total smart card shipments (source: Gartner-Dataquest, Frost and Sullivan). Gemplus was also awarded Frost and Sullivan's 2002 Market Value Award for its exceptional performance. Gemplus trades its shares on Euronext Paris S.A. First Market and on the Nasdaq Stock Market(tm) as GEMP in the form of ADSs. Its revenue in 2001 was 1 billion Euros. return to top
Giesecke and Devrient
www.gdai.com.
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is a technology leader in the supply of smart cards, systems and solutions for telecommunications, electronic payment transactions, transportation, health, ID, loyalty and multimedia applications as well as Internet security (PKI). G&D is also a leading provider of banknotes and securities as well as currency processing equipment. The Giesecke & Devrient Group, headquartered in Munich, Germany, operates subsidiaries and joint ventures all over the world. G&D employs around 6,500 people world-wide and generates an annual revenue in excess of 1 Billion U.S. dollars.
Infineon Technologies AG (Founding Member)
www.infineon.com.
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany, offers semiconductor and system solutions for the automotive and industrial sectors, for applications in the wired communications markets, secure mobile solutions as well as memory products. With a global presence, Infineon operates in the US from San Jose, CA, in the Asia-Pacific region from Singapore and in Japan from Tokyo. In fiscal year 2002 (ending September), the company achieved sales of Euro 5.21 billion with about 30,400 employees worldwide. return to top
Identity Alliance (Founding Member)
www.identityalliance.com
Jurgensen Consulting offers technical training, documentation, and development support for smart card systems, with specific emphasis on the use of smart cards within high security networks. Headed by Tim Jurgensen and based in Austin, TX, the group provides consulting services to a wide range of companies in the smart card, secure computing, and secure networking arenas.
Oberthur Card Systems (Founding Member)
www.oberthurcs.com
With 440.1 million euros sales in 2002, Oberthur Card Systems is one of the world's leading providers of card-based solutions, software and applications including SIM and multi-application smart cards and services ranging from consulting to personalization. Innovative products, high security expertise as well as high quality services ensure Oberthur's strong positioning in its three main target markets.
- Payment: 52% of revenues in 2002, the company is the world leader and number one supplier for Visa and MasterCard.
- Mobile Communications: 29 % of revenues in 2002, with open and interoperable solutions based on Java(tm) technology.
- Authentication and Network Security: emerging markets in which the company plays a pioneering role, with strong expertise in security and a dominant position in e-commerce and Pay-TV.
Close to its customers, Oberthur Card Systems benefits from an industrial and commercial presence across all five continents. Listed on the Euronext Stock Exchange (Code Euroclear 12413) since July 2000, Oberthur Card Systems, is a subsidiary of François-Charles Oberthur Group. return to top
Raak Technologies (Founding Member)
www.raaktechnologies.com.
Based in Austin, Texas, Raak Technologies provides secure device authentication for 802.11b WLAN networks utilizing 802.1x standards. Raak’s solution enables a corporation to control access to its WLAN network by issuing Raak supplied highly secure cards or tokens to authorized users, and by installing Raak’s client software on authorized desk top and lap top PCs. In addition, Raak makes secure systems easy to deploy, manage and use by providing personalization, deployment and management software and services. return to top
SAGEM SA
www.sagem.com.
Groupe SAGEM is an internationally based high-technology group. The second largest French group in the field of telecommunications, the third European company in electronics for defence and security, the world leader in fingerprint-based biometrics, major actor in avionics and information systems for aircraft, SAGEM maintains a presence in more than 20 countries.
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SCM Microsystems
www.scmmicro.com.
SCM Microsystems is a leading supplier of solutions that open the Digital World by enabling people to conveniently access digital content and services. The company markets and sells its smart card reader technology for network and physical access and conditional access modules for secure digital TV decryption to OEM customers in the government, financial, enterprise and broadcasting markets worldwide. Global headquarters are in Fremont, California, with European headquarters in Ismaning, Germany. return to top
Texas Instruments (Founding Member)
www.ti.com/wlan.
Texas Instruments Incorporated provides high-performance, low power 802.11 solutions for the growing Wi-Fi market by leveraging the company’s history of innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband. TI’s WLAN business is part of the company’s comprehensive portfolio of broadband solutions including cable modem, DSL, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateways, and carrier infrastructure. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries. Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. return to top
Trusted Logic (Founding Member)
www.trusted-logic.com.
A French startup created in 1999, Trusted Logic has enjoyed ever since an undisputed image of competence in the embedded systems industry. Technology enabler by excellence, Trusted Logic is at the leading edge of the open embedded technology and has built the Trusted Foundations you need to bring the utmost security to your smart card or terminal business. Corner stone of our product strategy, our Trusted Foundations are accompanied by certification tools and security services, altogether combining into the most comprehensive and reliable solutions. return to top
Ucopia (Founding Member)
www.ucopia.com.
Ucopia is a leading Wireless LAN startup providing enterprise mobility management software. A pioneer in the use of smart cards in WLAN networks, Ucopia has been a driving force in the creation of the WLAN Smart Card Consortium. return to top
University of Cantabria
www.unican.es
The University of Cantabria is located in a 200,000-inhabitant city on the north coast of Spain. The Network Planning and Mobile Communications Group is one of the five groups making up the Department of Communications Engineering. Our group is well established and well-acquainted with the academic and industrial reality.
Our areas of expertise cover the main fields related to protocols, architecture, design and implementation for mobile communication networks, advanced data transmission techniques and network management. Our expertise throughout all these fields, based on simulation and implementation approaches, is backed-up by the active and successful participation in national and European research programmes.
Since 2000 we have been extending our expertise to the area of smartcard development. Developments carried out within the smartcard area, using
Java Card technology, and by accessing the content on the cards, have opened up a whole new world of research possibilities. Based on IEEE 802.11x
technologies and smartcards for current and next generation networks, we are
researching combined mobility and security for the wireless Internet. This
will lead to the convergence of wireless infrastructures and smart cards for
providing ubiquitous and secure access to services. return to top
Visa (Founding Member)
www.corporate.visa.com.
Visa is the world’s leading payment brand. Visa-branded cards generate US$2.4 trillion in annual volume and are accepted at 30 million physical locations around the world, including 810,000 ATMs in more than 150 countries. The Visa organization plays a pivotal role in developing innovative payment products and technologies to benefit its 21,000 member financial institutions and their cardholders. Visa is a leader in Internet based payments and is pioneering the creation of u-commerce, or universal commerce the ability to conduct commerce anywhere, anytime, and any way. return to top
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