Meetinghouse Difference

Meetinghouse offers enterprise IT customers distinct advantages in 802.1X - based authentication technology. The Meetinghouse difference builds upon three key areas of our leadership:

1. Industry-wide distribution of AEGIS products via semiconductors and OEMs customers.

Meetinghouse provides advanced 802.1X authentication software solutions to global hardware OEMs and ODMs that embed the AEGIS Authentication SDK with network adapters to secure PC, laptop, PDA, wireless access points, and wired Ethernet switches. Our AEGIS Authentication SDK ships with over 90% of the leading 802.11 semiconductor vendors. This ubiquitous technology footprint assures enterprise IT customers that Meetinghouse technologies will interoperate across multiple vendors' hardware and operating system platforms. The adoption of 802.1X by global network equipment manufacturers has positioned the AEGIS platform as a leading authentication standard for managing endpoint access into the corporate network.

2. Innovative technology leadership through industry standards.

Meetinghouse is at the forefront of technological innovations and standards setting for 802.1X and EAP with our active participation in organizations such as the IETF, IEEE, Wi-Fi and TCG. Advancements in 802.1X/EAP-based authentication methods continue to evolve and address host configuration requirements that lessen the technology burden on hardware components while increasing the overall level of security provided by software solutions like AEGIS. Through early support of advanced authentication methods, such as PEAP, FAST, LEAP and TTLS, as well as compatibility with legacy authentication needs, Meetinghouse offers extensive flexibility for enterprise deployments.

3. Broad OS support and enterprise deployment flexibility.

In addition to the broadest range of 802.1X authentication method support in the industry, Meetinghouse supports a wide range of operating system meeting legacy requirements of our enterprise IT customers. Meetinghouse enables IT managers to deploy a single universal security solution to manage a unique network access experience across heterogeneous networks.

Meetinghouse is fundamentally committed to generating business value by providing enterprise IT customers a standards-based open security framework as a means of effectively reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of securing endpoints for employees, guests, partners, and vendors. In an era of disappearing perimeters and increased regulatory compliance, Meetinghouse offers a flexible, scalable, standards-based approach to endpoint security. In short, we create a trusted network environment and provide IT managers an extendable software platform designed to migrate endpoint security strategies as innovative enhancements come into the fore.

We achieve this level of flexibility and reliability by virtue of our intimate knowledge of sophisticated authentication protocols and our commitment to the implementation of standards-based solutions. Meetinghouse continues to address market requirements to simplify network policy enforcement and endpoint configuration management by integrating modular authentication toolkits with leading networking vendors for securing wired Ethernet and Wi-Fi network access. An industry-wide eco-system of trusted Meetinghouse vendors translates into a critical business value chain for IT manager making a flexible IT investment in network security.