Industry leaders back server interoperability for Instant Messaging
and Presence Services
March 3, 2004
New Delhi, India, March 3, 2004 - Major industry players have today re-inforced their endorsement of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Server-Server Protocol (SSP), as defined in OMA IMPS 1.1 and 1.2 Enabler Releases, to allow seamless interoperability between different Instant Messaging and Presence Services (IMPS) servers.
With the growth and evolution of presence-enabled applications and services, a greater cooperation amongst industry players is required to facilitate the adoption of those services by the consumers. Openness - open standards in particular - continues to be an important building block to avoid a fragmentation of the Instant Messaging and Presence services.
The companies endorsing the protocol are: ACL Wireless, Colibria, Comverse, Ericsson, Followap, MessageVine, Nokia and OZ Communications.
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has defined a set of specifications for IMPS, which cover, for example, the client-server protocol (CSP) and the Server-Server Protocol (SSP).
The Client-Server Protocol provides Presence-enabled or Instant Messaging clients access to Instant Messaging and Presence Services servers. Server-Server Protocol provides the communication and interaction means between different Instant Messaging and Presence Services domains or different service providers.
Each of the companies believes that mobile operators and consumers will benefit from the deployment of SSP as the open standard for server-server interoperability. Mobile subscribers will be able to use Instant Messaging and Presence-enabled services with their friends or colleagues across various operators' domains. Service interoperability between operators is a key factor for commercial deployment success and revenues.
As of today, several clients and servers have been launched implementing those CSP and SSP interfaces. The successful interoperability resulting from those open specifications are tested in regular interoperability testing events under the OMA supervision.
About ACL Wireless
ACL Wireless Limited is the worldwide leader in unique, consumer-centric, wireless instant messaging based services to mobile operators and service providers. Among its customers are world's 15 leading mobile operators whose combined subscriber base exceeds 40 million. ACL's wireless instant messaging solution has witnessed significant consumer adoption on commercially launched networks in Asia Pacific, Middle East and India.
Founded in early 2000, ACL Wireless today operates from its state-of-the-art wireless software research & development center in India and its Asia Pacific sales office in Malaysia. |
