March 19, 2007
CommuniGate Plans Several Announcements
By Greg Galitzine, Group Editorial Director
CommuniGate Systems ( News - Alert) is set to make several news announcements and recap several major accomplishments over the next few days about a variety of new initiatives, product enhancements, partnerships and an industry benchmark for IMS .
The company issued a summary of all the upcoming news.
Of course, it all begins with the company’s flagship product, CommuniGate Pro. CommuniGate Pro is a Rich Media Internet Communications platform to offer subscribers access to a single source for e-mail, collaboration, voice/video, and mobile Internet Communications. It provides a choice of clients — IP phones, soft clients, traditional telephony, mobile devices, browsers, and IM agents — all through a single account.
OpenHand Pushes e-Mail
This new partnership integrates CommuniGate Pro’s IP Communications architecture with NetworkIP’s suite of network access technologies. The two companies now offer carriers, resellers, IP/PBX ( News - Alert) integrators, SMBs, and enterprises with unique and cost effective solutions for their respective end-users.
IBM and CommuniGate Systems profiled a large mobile operator with 25 million subscribers utilizing the CommuniGate Pro Dynamic Cluster and SIP Farm application server on their IP networks. It has been quality proven within IBM’s labs based in Montpelier France for performance and scalability needed in carrier environments to support millions of concurrent accounts using multiple forms of Internet Communications.
It demonstrates an "IMS model architecture" that service and telco providers will be considering to satisfy both current subscriber levels and future growth of VoIP and other IP Communications Services to increase overall ARPU. The scalability profile is available in a public report.
Rich Media — Pronto!
Pronto! is a highly portable, secure, fast, and scalable Rich Media user interface that integrates messaging with rich media such as VoIP, IM, and presence for anywhere access. Pronto!, based on Adobe’s Flash/Flex2, talks to the CommuniGate Pro Internet Communications platform via the XIMSS API (XML Interface for Messaging, Scheduling, and Signaling). Users can access all forms of Internet Communications as well as all their stored data from business information to video and voicemail from any browser without installing software.
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) | X | This shows the structure of the IMS architecture where potential Applications Servers optimize content as well bandwidth. In Scenario Y, companies may provide Feature Servers Content Manager or Multi...more |
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) | X | SIP is the real-time communication protocol for VoIP. SIP is a signaling protocol for Internet conferencing, telephony, presence, events notification (emergency calling) and instant messaging.
SIP...more |
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) | X | This is a case study of TCO issues. Each organization must decide for itself what values to assign to the TCO equation....more |
Application Programming Interface (API) | X | A Remote Procedure Call (APC) also known as an Applications Programming Interface is a software programming function that allow one software program to activate (call function) another software progra...more |
Internet Protocol (IP) | X | IP stands for Internet Protocol, a data-networking protocol developed throughout the 1980s. It is the established standard protocol for transmitting and receiving data
in packets over the Internet. I...more |
(source: http://internetcommunications.tmcnet.com//topics/enterprise/articles/5730-communigate-plans-several-announcements.htm)
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