NEW YORK-MobileSys Inc. commercially debuted today a new global data roaming product that allows encrypted information to be exchanged between corporate enterprises and wireless devices that use different networks.
“Now, companies must make deals with each carrier, one at a time. But (they) will no longer be beholden to individual carriers and devices because, with no pain, they can change carriers and choose their optimal mix of (different) devices,” said David R. Coelho, president of the company.
The company, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is in the process of signing access agreements with major digital cellular, personal communications services, data and paging carriers. By June, it expects to announce six such agreements in this country and Europe. By September, another half dozen carriers in China, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States are expected to be aboard. By year-end, MobileSys anticipates agreements with an additional five large carriers in Europe, the Far East and South America.
“What is unique about this is its footprint of any carrier, anywhere in the world. Our common point of integration gives companies access to all carriers. Today, no ASP can do this.”
MobileSys.net is an application service provider working in tandem with MobileSys MX, which is an interface. The system identifies a device-whether pager, digital wireless handset or palmtop computer-and tailors the content to fit its parameters.
MobileSys MX can run on parallel servers, redundant servers or servers distributed among several locations, Coehlo said. Each server can handle 3 million devices and a sustained throughput rate of 200 messages per second.
The store-and-forward, two-way messaging engine is designed for real-time delivery. At the same time, it also allows enterprise customers to assess carriers’ quality of service by continuously monitoring latency and the number of tries necessary for send and delivery.
“Imagine today trying to track the location of an individual because, maybe, devices are different in each area. For the first time, this allows data roaming because information on one carrier’s network can be forwarded to different devices on different networks,” Coelho said.
“We can (even) move messages between two-way pagers and cellular phones, and there will never be roaming agreements between paging and cellular carriers.”
MobileSys.net/MobileSys MX can work with various computer systems, including: network and process monitoring, help desks, enterprise resource planning, electronic mail, intranet, customer-relationship management, stock trading and sales-force automation.
Once the interface is installed in the enterprise, the MobileSys corporate customer will be able to add new wireless applications without having to replace its wireless solution, Coehlo said.
MobileSys also takes responsibility for “dealing with the hard work of integrating new protocols, which happen frequently in wireless communications,” he added.
In addition, MobileSys can serve as an outsourced manager of device activation and churn, he said.
