iPass Open Mobile Client

The new iPass Open Mobile Client is lightweight, always-on software that not only provides seamless connectivity across iPass, customer, and 3rd-party networks, but will allow you to mix-and-match carrier networks without disrupting your users.

Open Mobile Client Components

The Open Mobile Client contains seven main elements today, with the ability to add more elements in the future, either by iPass or by 3rd parties, all interconnected via the Open Mobile Service Interface responsible for passing messages between the plug-in elements.

The components are:

• Connection Assistant: manages the Internet connection, whether connected over Wi-Fi, Ethernet, 3G or (in the future) WiMAX, 4G and/or LTE, detecting network adapters, and determining ranking and policies. Includes VPN integration and interactions as well as optional an optional module for dial-up connectivity.
• Event Assistant: provides a generalized mechanism to configure actions that should be executed when there is a change in network state.
• AppLaunch Assistant: provides a way for the IT admin or the end user to add shortcuts to quickly launch an application that may need an Internet connection and/or a VPN tunnel.
• Control Assistant: defines what processes must be running or not running, when an Internet connection is active.
• Update Assistant: communicates with the iPass servers on a regular basis, to keep the client up to date and ensures data transfer legitimacy.