Sprint Releases an Enterprise-Class Instant Messaging Platform

Sprint's has announced its enterprise-class instant messaging platform, which ensures user interoperability regardless of device or network. 

Sprint Enterprise IM, now available as a managed hosting platform or a corporate IM solution wholly contained inside the firewall, provides a highly secure communications tool that enables seamless conversing between the desktop and handheld devices.

"Sprint's Enterprise IM can tie together all of a company's communications devices, from desktop to wireless devices, and allows important messages to be communicated at the time when they are most important," said Keith Paglusch, president of Sprint E Solutions.

"The benefit of IM as a business communications tool is that it can control the explosion of e-mails every professional is challenged with managing," he added. 

The Sprint Enterprise Instant Messaging

• Uses Java 2 Micro Edition 2 (J2ME) to support Presence that allows corporate users to see which colleagues are on-line and able to receive messages, and Status that enables notifications to be sent over wireline and wireless networks.
• Supports current 2G technologies, WAP and SMS.
• Uses limited bandwidth.
• Provides standard SSL encryption.

For more information: http://www.sprint.com