Sify has chosen Synchronica's Mobile Gateway because it works on the vast majority of devices in use today, and consequently has a much larger addressable market than other mobile email solutions, which require users to upgrade to expensive high-end Smartphones. Unlike other products, Mobile Gateway does not require additional software to be installed on the handset making it particularly well suited for businesses, consumers and prosumers in emerging markets.
Sify operates more than 2,000 'ePort' brand franchised cyber cafes in 200 cities across the Indian sub-continent, and provides enterprise solutions to over 2,000 enterprise customers over a tier-one backbone network reaching 500 cities.
Commenting on the agreement, P J Nath, Executive President, Sify Enterprise Services, said: "We're excited about offering businesses and consumers in the Indian sub-continent a hosted mobile email and synchronization service based on Synchronica's ground-breaking technology. Synchronica's solution is ideal because it works on mass-market phones, a prerequisite in
About Mobile Gateway
Synchronica's Mobile Gateway provides carrier-grade push email and synchronization services for virtually all mass market feature phones and Smartphones being used by subscribers today. It is based on the dominant open industry standards Push IMAP (LEMONADE) for mobile email and SyncML (OMA DS) for contact and calendar synchronization and works with the built-in email and synchronization clients found in more than 1.5 billion phones. Serving consumers and prosumers, Mobile Gateway includes back-end support for POP3 and IMAP mailboxes, connecting to popular services, such as AOL or Gmail. For business users, it provides a zero footprint architecture where users simply register their devices and instantly start to receive corporate email on their phone, without requiring additional connectors behind the firewall. Business mailboxes supported include Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, and Sun Java System Communications Suite.
About Synchronica
Synchronica plc develops and markets mobile email and synchronization solutions for mobile operators and device manufacturers. Products include the award-winning push email and synchronization solution Mobile Gateway, and the device backup solution Mobile Backup. Based on industry-standards, Synchronica can reach the built-in email and synchronization clients of more than 1.5 billion mobile devices on the market today. Service providers in emerging and developed markets use Synchronica products to offer mobile email, PIM synchronization, and backup and restore services to consumer and business subscribers.
Future versions of Synchronica Mobile Gateway will offer a comprehensive multi-protocol mobile email solution by introducing Email-to-SMS and Email-to-MMS as well as WAP and xHTML Gateways. Document Transcoding will further add the ability to display a large variety of attachments, such as Word, Excel, and Powerpoint on standard feature phones.
Headquartered in England Synchronica has a development centre in
About Sify
Sify is among the largest Managed Enterprise and Consumer Internet Services companies in
A significant part of the company's revenue is derived from Corporate Services, which include corporate connectivity, network and communications solutions, security, network management services, enterprise applications and hosting. Sify is recognized as an ISO 9001:2000 certified service provider for network operations, data center operations and customer support, and for provisioning of VPNs, Internet bandwidth, VoIP solutions and integrated security solutions, and ISO 27001 certified for Internet Data Center operations. Sify has licenses to operate NLD (National Long Distance) and ILD (International Long Distance) services and offers VoIP back haul to long distance subscriber telephony services. The company is
Consumer services include broadband home access, dial up connectivity and the e-port cyber cafe chain across 180 cities and towns. Sify.com the consumer portal of Sify has sub portals like www.samachar.com , www.walletwatch.com , www.sifymax.com and www.chennailive.in , www.bangalorelive.in , www.mumbailive.in , www.hyderabadlive.in the city based live video on the web. The content is available in 5 Indian languages, which include Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil.
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