Nuvoiz SoftPhone now includes instant messaging, persistent group chat and presence capabilities

Mar 10, 2007 14:48 GMT  ·  By

Nuvoiz, a developer of open standards-based mobile VoIP applications, announced that the Nuvoiz SoftPhone and Nuvoiz VoIP Network Controller now include instant messaging, persistent group chat and presence capabilities, provided through a strategic relationship with Jabber.

Launched last month at the Demo '07 technology showcase, the Nuvoiz SoftPhone for PCs and PDAs is an advanced mobile Voice over Instant Messaging (VoIM) solution that is a natural IP telephony enhancement for small and medium businesses and mid-enterprise customers using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based IP private branch exchange (PBX) or IP Centrex. The Nuvoiz SoftPhone combined with the messaging and presence capabilities of the Jabber Extensible Communication Platform (Jabber XCP) promises high-fidelity voice with a massively scalable and extensible platform for unified communications.

"Presence and multi-protocol interoperability are two of the most important and challenging requirements in unified communications," said Dave Uhlir, vice president of marketing and product management at Jabber. "Launching with Nuvoiz speaks to both of these points. Presence is highlighted within their softphone client; additionally, this demonstrates Jabber XCP's ability to integrate seamlessly across the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, SIP, and many other popular communications protocols in a highly scalable and programmable way."

Available immediately to IP telephony service providers and network operators, the Nuvoiz SoftPhone has been designed to work with any existing deployment of Jabber XCP, which, according to Jabber, may appeal to existing telecom, service provider, or enterprise customers. Alternatively, a packaged solution that includes Jabber XCP's IM, persistent group chat, and extended presence capabilities is available directly from Nuvoiz.

"After evaluating several competing platforms, we selected Jabber XCP because of its proven scalability, reliability, availability of mature software development kits, and our experience with the company's customer support team," said Chong-Jin Koh, chief executive officer of Nuvoiz.

A demo of the Nuvoiz Softphone with Jabber XCP messaging and presence capabilities can be viewed HERE.

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Snapshot of the Nuvoiz SoftPhone application
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