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July 2004 - NERSC select Ecebs' Multefile
NERSC, the North East Regional Smartcard Consortium of Local Government authorities have selected Ecebs' Multefile for a wide-ranging programme of multi-application pilots within the Newcastle and Sunderland areas this year.
Applications as diverse as remote network login, PKI based digital signatures and interoperable ticketing will be provided on one dual interface smartcard.
"We see Local Government based smartcard infrastructure as requiring highly flexible and adaptive components to deliver the plethora of services envisioned for the future" said Mr Conn Crawford, Strategic Projects Officer, IT dept of Sunderland City Council. "We selected Multefile from Ecebs to provide us with the best combination of applications in one card-platform neutral layer, enabling us to avoid proprietary technology lock in."
NERSC chose the JavaCard version of Multefile on-card layer in the knowledge they can change horses later if required with minimal disruption and incremental cost. "We have Multefile running on MULTOS, JavaCard or native card operating platforms," said Barry Hochfield, Ecebs Technical Director. "Our on-card layer hides the platform differences for both operation and management thus enabling freedom and choice of supply for the higher volume elements of a card scheme, the card hardware itself. This, along with Multefile's easy to use security policy management technology gives the level of assurance needed for deployment decisions of this complexity and magnitude."
After a series of pilots where over 50,000 Multefile cards will be issued to schools, colleges, football clubs and other sites, NERSC plan a larger scale rollout in 2005.
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