U.S. Joint Forces Command licenses Jabber Inc.'s real-time messaging and presence platform

Mobile Internet, The, Oct, 2004

Jabber Inc. announced that USJFCOM's Joint Experimentation Directorate (J9) is deploying the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP) as part of its efforts to develop, explore, test, and validate 21st-century war-fighting concepts.

"Through the process of experimentation USJFCOM will ensure that our military force of tomorrow can fight more effectively, more efficiently and at less risk than in the past," said Vince Nunez, USJFCOM--Joint Experimentation Directorate public affairs officer. "Jabber XCP fits with our primary directive to improve doctrine, interoperability and integration, and lay the foundation for defense transformation."

"According to news reports, secure, real-time messaging played an integral role in delivering actionable and decisive intelligence to battlefield units during the 2003 invasion of Iraq," said Joe Hildebrand, Jabber Inc.'s chief architect. "USJFCOM has put Jabber XCP into its experimental program because its security, extensibility and open architecture make it an ideal platform for developing the real-time intelligence environments that provide our military with a continuing edge in global operations."

The company reports that in addition to USJFCOM, Jabber XCP is currently deployed or under consideration by several other federal government agencies. State and local agencies are also implementing Jabber XCP to tie together disparate state and federal agencies in real-time. Among them is a deployment at CapWIN, which has used Jabber XCP as the universal real-time messaging infrastructure for connecting first responders across more than 30 national, state, and local jurisdictions around the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

Jabber XCP is a real-time presence and messaging platform, which allows people, devices, and applications to instantly communicate and exchange streaming XML data, based upon dynamic presence and availability information. By embedding streaming Extensible Markup Language (XML) data into a wide variety of services, Jabber XCP extends the benefits of real-time, presence-based communications beyond instant messaging. Enterprises, government agencies, service providers, and OEMS license Jabber XCP to integrate with existing systems and presence-enable virtually any real-time application--from secure instant messaging to workflow systems, transactional financial trading systems, alert and notification systems, customer service portals, and more.

Jabber XCP is built on top of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), an open protocol natively based in XML, which recently achieved Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) approval as an Internet standard for instant messaging and presence. Visit www.jabber.com for more information.