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Openwave® Multimedia Messaging Service Center

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A carrier-scale messaging platform to support a superior mass-market messaging experience.

Openwave’s Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC) offers the most flexible and complete carrier-scale multimedia messaging platform to help operators distinguish their service and accelerate adoption and usage.

MMSC distributed IP-based architecture is a distributed IP-based system that provides a superior user experience across multiple handsets and allows operators to extend the multimedia experience to all legacy handsets and email users.

Openwave’s technology now supports more than 13 million camera-phone subscribers and more than three million video-enabled phones subscribers. Openwave MMSC is compliant to OMA, 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards.

Operator Benefits

  • Robust Platform, Flexible Architecture: 100% standards-based, open interfaces share common Openwave messaging components for seamless future system and service evolution.
  • High Availability: Currently running at 99.999% availability at a Tier-1 US customer. (An SLA of 99.999% is guaranteed if customer staff is augmented by Openwave-trained personnel.)
  • Best-In-Class, Integrated Transcoding: Provides transcoding in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
  • Superior User Experience: Supports the latest standards, providing the best user experience across all mass-market handsets — the most sophisticated legacy handset support among all MMSC vendors.
  • Proven Technology: Deployed in networks worldwide, supports millions of messaging subscribers. Independent MIME store, LDAP directory and SMTP/MTA servers support email users and provide state-of-the-art anti-abuse technology.
  • Sophisticated Multi-Operator Hosted Environment: Industry-leading, virtual MMSC capability enables operators to support multiple brands or multiple operators within the same logical and physical deployment, allowing for further OPEX reduction.

Subscriber Benefits

  • Universal Message Accessibility: Access a central messages store anywhere from a mobile device or web portal.
  • End-user Protection: Includes basic parental controls such as accept/deny lists and filtering to ignore/reject anonymous messages, reducing spam and unnecessary network traffic.