Learn more about the Sun Java Communications Suite in a Sun white paper focused on relaying to service providers how the communications and collaboration solution can help them build their business. Its capabilities, such as enhanced email indexing and search; interoperability with Mac's iCal and Mozilla's Thunderbird/Lightning calendars, Microsoft Outlook, etc.; and native calendar synchronization with mobile devices that support CalDAV, such as Apple's iPhone, are a few reasons why the Communications Suite is worth investigating.

The 8-page white paper primarily provides an overview of the Communications Suite's features. It then makes a case on how the solution is invaluable for service providers. Namely,

• Cost efficiency: Communications Suite is architected to provide very high mean time between failures, leading to longer availability and less maintenance than competing solutions -- and lower total cost of ownership.

• Scalability: The suite is built for “Cloud Scale” scaling vertically and horizontally while taking full advantage of available physical resources such as disks, memory, and processing power.

• Open Standards: Communications Suite is an open-standards based platform. Sun is focused on influencing the standards and adopting them in its products. Adherence to standards enables its customers to enhance and integrate with complementary technologies, leading to faster time to market for new services.

• Compelling user experience: Sun Convergence, a component of Communications Suite, brings together email, calendaring, presence, chat, and address book services in a very interactive and easy-to-use Web interface. Besides providing a user experience similar to many desktop clients, it can be extended and customized to meet the needs of a diverse populace.

• Multi-tenancy (i.e., a single instance of software running on a software-as-a-service vendor’s servers, serving multiple client organizations, or “tenants”): Helps ensure strong economies of scale -- crucial with today’s exponential growth.

• Mobility: With the proliferation of network-aware devices, communication needs are changing, as are the ways people interact with each other. With its standards-based underpinnings, Java Communications Suite enables the use of a large breadth of mobile devices. SyncML provides Over-the-air synchronization of calendar and contacts data; Lemonade enables push email; CalDAV allows for native iPhone interaction.

• Privacy and Data protection: The Java Communications Suite offers features that protect data and privacy and facilitate compliance with government and industry regulations, including authentication mechanisms, message and session encryption, virus and spam protection, archiving and auditing, and extensive privacy options.

More Information

Sun Java Communications Suite: Industry-Leading, Scalable and Reliable Messaging and Collaboration Platform - Sun white paper (login or registration required)

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