RegardingID Archive | Cisco to Reporter: RFID Picking Up

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

The interest in RFID systems is picking up after a period of inactivity, Douglas Bellin of Cisco Systems (US) told The Star Online reporter Christy Lee in an article posted earlier in the week.

He said RFID suffered from a lot of hype several years ago. “It used to be known as the magic (system) that could do anything but in reality had many limitations.”

MorphoTrak named Cisco Ecosystem provider

Cisco named MorphoTrak as an Ecosystem Provider, enabling MorphoTrak’s MorphoAccess biometric readers to be integrated with Cisco’s popular IP-based access control solution.

The Cisco solution is scalable from one to thousands of points by connecting MorphoAccess input/output modules to the gateway through a controller area network bus without the need for additional Ethernet ports. In addition, the use of Cisco and MorphoTrak power-over-ethernet capabilities eliminates the cost of installing additional power supplies at each reader location.

Cisco shows confidence in RSA SecurID

Cisco affirmed its confidence in RSA’s SecurID two-factor technology by announcing the token is a primary security piece of its PCI 2.0 architecture.

Cisco has bundled several components in order to make the PCI 2.0 architecture PCI-compliant with the Payment Card Industry’s toughest standards for payment card data protection.

Smart cards coming to Vancouver's transit system

TransLink has a signed a contract with IBM Canada and Cubic Transportation Systems to bring smart card-based fare payment technology to Vancouver’s transit system, according to The Cloverdale Reporter.

Review: Microsoft identity management product

Computerworld US reporter Jonathan Hassell has published a review of Microsoft’s Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 on Techworld.

Microsoft’s FIM product automates the identification lifecycle process. Its features that make it stand out from its competitors are a self-service Web portal and a compatibility with existing Web standards that allows it to function with many other systems.

UnboundID releases SCIM-enabled products

UnboundID, a provider of identity data solutions for cloud, telco, and enterprise computing, released products based on the Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) standard. By supporting SCIM, UnboundID can provide a standardized and simpler solution for organizations provisioning and managing user identities across multiple cloud-based services, including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings.

GE Healthcare, Cisco technology platform improves patient flow and asset management

GE Healthcare and Cisco have joined forces to help hospitals improve the quality of patient care, increase efficiency, and reduce costs by enabling them to better manage the flow of patients, staff and medical equipment.

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Cisco to Reporter: RFID Picking Up