Industry Leadership
A Decade of Innovation and Leadership
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is a global software innovator delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions that enable communication service providers and the broader ecosystem to create and deliver smarter services.
Building on its mobile data heritage, Openwave mobilizes the Internet with predictive solutions fueled by real-time analytics that mediate among all the different ecosystem elements, enhancing every mode of IP traffic. The result provides customers with a 360-degree view of their subscribers, the network, devices and services, and enables them to proactively optimize network resources, quickly launch smart mobile services, and provide a contextually relevant user experience.
Innovative Solutions
Openwave's product portfolio consists of context-aware mediation and messaging product lines:
Context-aware mediation: The surge in demand for mobile content and data services signifies the end of a distinctly mobile web and the beginning of one web, universally available across all devices. If service providers want to compete in this new, untethered, all-IP-based information age, they need more control over what is happening in their networks.
Openwave's Traffic Mediation solutions operate on an open, all-IP framework that acts as a single control point for total traffic management: content adaptation, web and media optimization, network security, policy control and dynamic charging and campaigning.
Service providers cannot effectively manage and monetize their traffic without a clear picture of what is happening on their networks. Openwave's Data Mediation & Analytics solutions monitor network traffic and user behavior to dynamically add intelligence, predictive policy control and location awareness across the entire portfolio.
Messaging: Openwave's suite of mobile, email and voice solutions use IP-based, bandwidth-optimized technologies to simplify the different modes of messaging moving across an operator's network. Low-cost, "infinite" content storage ensures that providers can manage the growing amount of content being shared, while a personalized communications dashboard simplifies the very act of communicating – supporting email, voice, chat, posts and even tweets.
Strategic Partnerships
Openwave partners with over one hundred companies to expand its reach and capabilities. Hardware partnerships include SUN Microsystems, 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.
Openwave History
Openwave was formed in August 2000 when wireless Internet pioneer Phone.com merged with messaging software provider Software.com. This union signaled a larger trend taking shape in the industry -- the convergence of broadband and mobile communications as traditional telecommunications intersected with the Internet.
Heritage of Firsts
- 1st Mobile Browsing deployment in the world (AT&T)
- 1st WAP 1 deployment in the world (TeliaSonera)
- 1st WAP 2 deployment in the world (KDDI)
- 1st Open Internet deployment in the world (KDDI)
- 1st converged communications trials (O2, Telefonica)
- 1st photo messaging system in world (J-Phone)
- 1st fully integrated voice and video call answering system in the world
- 1st SUPL emergency location system
Today, Openwave enables the creation and delivery of innovative data services for leading communication service providers worldwide.





