Latest Version of Openwave Email Mx Enables Service Providers to Offer Mobile Email and Very Large Mailboxes
BARCELONA, SPAIN, Mobile World Congress – February 16, 2009 –
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), one of the world’s leading software innovators enabling revenue-generating personalized services which converge the mobile and broadband experience, today announced Openwave® Email Mx 8.0.
Openwave Email Mx is an extensible, carrier-scale email solution that was ranked the market leader and top player in
Radicati’s annual 2008 Messaging Platforms for Hosted Email Providers Market Quadrant. The latest version, Email Mx 8.0, now supports mobile email using the IMAP IDLE standard, and high capacity mailboxes. The IMAP IDLE feature enables service providers to offer mobile email directly to their subscribers with any compatible handset, and high capacity mailboxes offer nearly limitless storage to handle the increasing amount of rich content.
“Service providers are evolving their email systems to enable limitless storage of messaging and content" said Dan Nguyen, director of product management, messaging, Openwave. “
Openwave Email Mx 8.0 addresses the service provider’s requirement to offer high capacity mailboxes as well as network-based mobile email that eliminates the requirement for users to download a handset client.”
Email Mx 8.0
Openwave Email Mx 8.0 scales to support any number of subscribers with fast, reliable performance. The distributed, multi-threaded architecture allows independent scaling of all components to fit an operator’s specific growth patterns, while reducing the operator’s TCO. Leading enhancements to
Email Mx 8.0 include:
• Mobile email using the IMAP IDLE standard
• Support for nearly limitless capacity mailboxes
• Improved IMAP performance allowing users to manipulate mailboxes with much less processing effort
• Hardened messaging storage eliminating overload scenarios
• Enhanced message delivery options (header summaries) allowing message metadata to be retrieved without retrieving/loading the full message
