Mbuni
Mbuni™ enables mobile operators and service providers to offer innovative multimedia messaging services (MMS) to subscribers. The MMSC provides core network switching of MMS traffic, just as the SMSC provides message switching for SMS. Most modern mobile handsets support MMS, making it possible for subscribers to easily exchange photos, videos audio and other content instantly. Moble Network Operators (MNO) and Value Added Providers (VASP) can use Mbuni to realize full potential offered by MMS.
Feature Summary
It boasts such features as: Content Adaptation (based on the capabilities of the device - OMA UAProf v1.1), Email-to-MMS and MMS-to-email support (MM3), Support for OMA DRM messaging for premium/copyrighted content, Delivery Receipts for MMS accountability, Support for network side persistent message storage as well as support for web-based message reception, Integration with subscriber databases, Flexible billing architecture, supporting both prepaid and postpaid billing (CDRs) via flexible interfaces, Number portability integration for flexible message routing, and last but not least extreme standards compliance (MMBox, OMA MMS v1.2, 3GPP 23.140, OMA UAProf v1.1)
Commercialization Inquires
For commercialization inquires, contact SkyCore the authorized commercial agent. Contact detials for SkyCore as follows:
| Email: | mbuni@skycore.com |
| USA Toll Free: | +1 (888) 244-2962 |
| USA: | +1 (617) 314-7688 |
| United Kingdom: | 08000518907 |
Open Source Home
Mbuni's open source home page is www.mbuni.org. Go there to find out more information about mbuni, as well as information about the mailing lists, and more on the mbuni open source community.
Major Features
Mbuni, utilising an Open Source community model, has been developed by Digital Solutions since 2003. This model has ensured rapid refinement, superior standards-compliance and easy customisation/extensibility. Mbuni boasts over 150 installations worldwide, and has been deployed commercially by several live network operators around the world. Mbuni is built to run on a linux platform with each instance able to support hundreds of MMS messages per second.
Go to mbuni.org for the open source site that has up-to-date information
Mbuni can be deployed in a variety of networks (GPRS, CSD or CDMA), and supports a wide variety of MMS handsets (pre-OMA complaint device included)
Mbuni deliver directly to a handset, bypassing the operatoes MMSC, by using SMS and WAP. Device discovery with delivery receipts are possible with additional handset configuration. Some networks may block direct delivery of MMS and therefore a direct MM7 connection may be required.
Mbuni supports full interoperability with other MMSC's using the MM4 protocol over SMTP, or using one of the MM7 protocols (SOAP and EAIF supported). Mbuni has been successfully integrated to several major vendor MMSCs using the MM4 protocol.
Mbuni provides full support using MM7/SOAP and MM7/EAIF protocols. For MNO's looking to gain from premium messaging ARPU, Mbuni will accept MM7 and pass back to the VASP full delivery receipts with device discovery. Mbuni also includes a flexible VASP management system, allowing message exchange via HTTP.
Mbuni also supports messaging options for SMIL presentations and SOAP attachments. Mime type masking/pass through options are provided for non-standard types (ex. MP3 masked as a MID). A CGI/HTTP API is provided for simple and flexible content submission.
This module provides Digital Rights Management (OMA v1.0 as well as the older x-drm header) content wrapping inside an MM7 MMS submission. With this module you can conditionally prevent content recipients from sharing select pieces of content. Mbuni MM7 DRM supports dynamic encoding of SMIL content, SOAP Attachments and non-standard mime types in either Base64 and Binary format based on the recipient handsets capabilities.
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