Orange France Deploys Jabber, Inc.'s Rich Mobile Presence and Instant Messaging Platform

Orange France today announced the rollout of mobile presence and instant messaging (IM) services developed using the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP). According to Orange France, the extensible and flexible nature of the open Jabber XCP architecture provides Orange France mobile subscribers with the broadest range of interoperable services.

"Seamless interoperability is an expectation of mobile users in our market," said Julien Billot, head of marketing with Orange France. "Jabber XCP delivers both the interoperability our consumers demand and the rich features we require to continually differentiate our products for maximum consumer appeal."

According to some industry observers, the key to European IM adoption is in offering mobile users the same ease and interoperability now enjoyed by SMS users -- expanded to include desktop contacts -- along with enhanced features such as the ability to know when friends and colleagues are online (i.e., presence), and the capacity to share rich media along with text.

In addition to being able to send and receive presence and IM within the Orange France network, subscribers of the new services will be able to connect with users of other leading mobile services, as well as to the presence and messaging capabilities of desktop customers including those of leading French ISP, Wanadoo. Orange France reports that the choice to develop its services using Jabber XCP was both a function of the rich services that can be delivered through Jabber XCP, as well as the wide set of protocols supported by Jabber XCP, including: XMPP, IMPS, and SIP.

The services offered to mobile subscribers by Orange France will use either Jabber, Inc.'s embedded mobile client solution -- developed in close partnership with Movial of Finland -- or an IMPS-based client. Taken together, Orange France reports that subscribers will have the broadest possible set of compatible devices from which to choose. The mobile clients and services allow Orange subscribers to publish and subscribe to presence, add IM contacts by phone numbers, import contacts from their address book, use emoticons, white and black list contacts, be provisioned through auto-upgrades, and work within a sophisticated yet consumer-friendly user interface.

"This is a significant announcement and deployment for Jabber, Inc. that is in line with our core messages of extensibility, interoperability, and flexibility," said Tony Bamonti, president of Jabber Telecom. "This deployment is the culmination of several years of joint development work between Jabber, Inc. and Orange and the net result is the superior service Orange France is rolling out today."

Jabber XCP is also the real-time presence and messaging solution choice of FT Group, which includes France Telecom and its partners and subsidiaries, including Orange and Wanadoo.

ABOUT JABBER, INC.
Jabber, Inc. is a leading provider of real-time messaging and presence solutions. More than five million users, representing hundreds of organizations worldwide, have licensed the Jabber XCP commercial server to underpin a wide variety of real-time, presence-powered applications, including enterprise instant messaging, transactional financial trading systems, government intelligence systems, and more. Jabber Inc., a 2004 eWeek Excellence Award Finalist, and Network Computing magazine "2004 Company to Watch," counts France Telecom, Lehman Brothers, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, FedEx, BellSouth, McKesson, EDS, Arcelor, CapWIN, and Juniper Networks amongst its customers. Jabber, Inc.'s investors include France Telecom (NYSE:FTE - News), Intel Capital, Webb Interactive Services, Inc., and Jona, Inc. Please see www.jabber.com or email info@jabber.com for more information.

ABOUT MOVIAL
Movial Corporation develops software and services for the mobile multimedia and presence-enabled applications market. By enhancing the ability of device, system, and IM vendors to conceive, design, and deliver the software differentiators that drive revenue, Movial is the choice of Nokia, HP, Orange, and Jabber, Inc. Movial has distinguished itself with mobile presence innovations such as 'Push-to-Video,' while simultaneously becoming the time- and cost-to-market leader for Linux-based consumer electronics.

Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Movial was founded in 2001 and employs 95 employees.

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