Industry Leadership

Openwave established many of the foundational patents that allow mobile devices to connect to the Internet. Over the years, Openwave's software has enabled many industry firsts for its operator customers, including mobile browsing, mobile photo-messaging, and the world's first Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) deployment. The company has built a patent portfolio of approximately 200 patents covering many innovations spanning smart devices, cloud technologies and unified messaging.

Building on its mobile data heritage, Openwave helps its customers adapt their infrastructure to the fast pace of web services so they can continue to add value to the end-user experience through contextually relevant content and services. Openwave delivers highly scalable platform solutions in the areas of mediation and messaging that enable operators to monetize the growing demand for mobile data while optimizing their use of network resources.

The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California

Context-aware Solutions

All our software solutions leverage their position in the data path to help operators become more aware of the devices, content, network conditions, personal preferences and data plan behind every request. This is context awareness.

• Congestion Control: Ensuring the most efficient use of network resources through context-aware traffic optimization
• Price Plan Innovation: Engaging the end-user with superior service discovery and targeted data plans
• Ecosystem Monetization: Enabling upstream and downstream business models with open development tools
• Messaging: A carrier-grade email platform, robust content storage and intelligent subscriber data management

Strategic Partnerships

Openwave partners with over one hundred companies to expand its reach and capabilities. Hardware partnerships include Juniper Networks, F5, HP, IBM and storage company EMC. Software partnerships include Cloudmark and Commtouch (anti-spam), McAfee (anti-virus) and GBSD Technologies (location).

In addition to delivering tailored solutions directly to our customers, Openwave is collaborating with Alcatel Lucent, Tech Mahindra and IBM worldwide; as well as DSG in Africa and Syniverse in Southeast Asia to bring our innovative mediation and messaging technologies to emerging markets.