Intel AMT Release 2.5/2.6 Architecture

Intel AMT Release 2.5 extends active management to enterprise wireless mobile computing. As shown in the following figure, the architecture has a mobile version of ICH8, the Crestline MCH and a wireless NIC.

Intel AMT Release 2.5 adds the following features to Release 2.0/2.1/2.2:

•   Support for a second, wireless, network interface. Out-of-band management of Intel AMT can be done over this interface. System Defense packet filtering can also be done on traffic sent and received over this interface.

•   Support for 802.1x EAP options so that Intel AMT can continue to process in-band and OOB wireless traffic even when the host OS is not active.

•   Detection of whether a network connection is inside or outside the enterprise network.

•   User notification capability, allowing registration for and receipt of alerts on the local CPU. Intel AMT Release 2.5 also includes the User Notification Service (UNS), a Windows service which defines a set of Intel AMT alerts (such as a System Defense alert). When it receives alerts from Intel AMT, the UNS logs them in the Windows event log, where they are available for general viewing.

•   Support for the Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) standard. The release includes a plug-in that captures posture information and forwards it to a Cisco NAC device.

Intel AMT Release 2.6

Intel AMT Release 2.6 adds Remote Configuration and several other features to the mobile platform.

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