Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Absolutely. (Operator Instructions) First up is Peter Cooper at Morgan Stanley.
Peter Cooper – Morgan Stanley
Hey, great. Thanks very much. I want to focus a little bit on of the things we talked about at the Analyst Day. You’d mentioned, you know, coming together here with the different pieces of the pie from the communications side versus the securities side. Are there any developments there beyond the recent win with Schwab, etc., that would give investors a little more proof of concept here? What you laid out at the Analyst Day?
Stratton Sclavos
Well if you’re talking about kind of the broader initiatives of integrating some of the technologies, Peter, a couple of things I would say. Clearly, in the content distribution, whether it be mobile or broadband, we have been bring to bear both our naming capabilities in terms of [ENUM] capabilities and address translation capabilities. In fact, we do local number portability look up and all kinds of various things in our content businesses with the VeriSign Information Services core technology.
In addition, of course, all the DRM technology is backed up by VeriSign security and authentication. So at the development shops, there’s lots of work going on. In fact, as we also talked about at Analyst Day, our security team is having our messaging team build them a [inaudible] technology that will fit in handsets as it relates to VeriSign authentication services going downstream and going mobile. So all that’s in the works in the product shops. I would expect that portfolio of things to be ready for launch in early 07.
The ePedigree solution that we talked about, that we delivered in July to Cardinal, actually uses VeriSign digital signature and certificate technology. So again, I’m actually very pleased with the progress we’re making on the product roadmap as it relates to integration.
I think the next step for us is in distribution and how we bring those solutions to market for our customers and we’re starting to have some very interesting conversations with large financial service firms as well as carriers about VeriSign becoming more of an end-to end provider for them of mobile solutions as well as enterprise security and commerce solutions.
So I would say, from what we talked about at Analyst Day just a few short months ago, we’ve continued strong forward progress on those fronts.
Peter Cooper – Morgan Stanley
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