Bittium exhibits its Bittium Tough Mobile smartphone at the Virve User Days in Vantaa, Finland, May 2-3. Virve is a nationwide administrative security TETRA radio network, which is used by Finnish authorities and other security operators for secure communications. The Virve User Days event brings together both representatives of the organizations using the network and e.g. equipment suppliers. Due to the increasing need for authorities to use mobile data transfer, commercial LTE networks are being put into operation alongside the Virve network. Bittium provides information security solutions, terminals and systems that can be used in such commercial mobile networks for secure and reliable communications over speech and data connections.

Bittium Tough Mobile is a secure and durable Android-based LTE smartphone combining the latest information security and commercial device technologies. Bittium Tough Mobile incorporates a hardware-based security platform, which enables strong device security as well as deep integration of both customers' own and third party software security solutions. This dedicated hardware is essential for building layered device and software security solutions. In addition, Bittium Tough Mobile’s features include for example a programmable Push-to-Talk button (PTT), glove-usable 5” full HD display, IP67 level water and dust protection, and MIL-STD-810G level shock resistance.

Bittium Secure Suite is a device management and encryption software product that complements the Bittium Tough Mobile smartphone with a scalable set of new software services for remote management, remote attestation and securing the network connections of the device. Bittium Tough Mobile smartphone and Bittium Secure Suite form a unique, complete, reliable system for processing and transferring sensitive and classified material and securing critical communication.