Now SMS/MMS Newsletter

February 14, 2005

Dear Customer,

This week at the 3GSM World Congress, Now Wireless will be announcing the Now IMP Server, an Instant Messaging and Presence Server that supports both mobile phones and PC desktop clients. Users can communicate with each other using instant messaging technology whether they are connected on the same Local Area Network, or connected through mobile wireless technology.

Introducing the Now IMP Server
Mobile phone clients are supported through the Now IMP Server's implementation of the Open Mobile Alliance (Wireless Village) Instant Messaging and Presence Services (IMPS) specification. The current release of Now IMP supports the Client Server Protocol (CSP) version 1.1, with support for both text and binary (WBXML) protocol variants. As a published standard of the Open Mobile Alliance, many of the new mobile phone models from major manufacturers include an instant messaging and presence client that supports this specification.

PC desktop clients are supported through the Now IMP Server's implementation of the XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). A Windows based desktop client supporting XMPP is bundled with the Now IMP Server to enable instant communications. XMPP is an internet standard, published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in RFC 3920 and RFC 3921.


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The Now IMP Server supports the Presence, Instant Messaging (IM) and Group features of both the IMPS and XMPP specifications, in addition to the fundamental, common and core features of those specifications.

It is possible to login with the same user account from one or more desktops as well as one mobile phone. When the desktop IM status changes to "Away", messages are automatically routed to your mobile phone instead.

External connectivity is supported with a built-in e- mail gateway, allowing IM users to send messages to e-mail recipients, and allowing e-mail users to send messages to IM recipients. E-mail connectivity provides a simple built-in API for alert management, allowing automated applications to interface with the Instant Messaging network.

The Now IMP Server is available for both service provider and corporate configurations.

Service provider configurations of the Now IMP Server scale to support large numbers of users, using similar technology to that implemented by Now Wireless' Now SMS/MMS Gateway and Now WAP Proxy, which are utilised by mobile operators worldwide.

Corporate configurations of the Now IMP Server allow organisations of any size to deploy their own private instant messaging network, with SSL/TLS encryption, to enable employees to interact with each other across the office or around the world with secure instant messaging technology. The alert management interface allows corporate applications to quickly disseminate time critical information to employees.

The Now IMP Server is currently in beta release, with evaluation copies available for free download from http://www.nowimp.com.

Now Wireless is exhibiting at the 3GSM World Congress in Hall 2, Stand F5C.

Sincerely,


The Now IMP Product Team
Now Wireless
phone: +44 20 8286 8080 (UK) or +1 410 833 8711 (USA)

We will be announcing the Now IMP Server at the 3GSM World Congress this upcoming week, so please forgive us in advance if our product team is slow in responding to any issues with the beta release. We will communicate any important issues regarding this beta release on the discussion board. The discussion board for the Now IMP Server is accessible via either the www.nowimp.com or www.nowsms.com web sites.

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