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New Whitepaper: Military Messaging Over Low Bandwidth Networks

Military Messages often need to be transferred over low bandwidth networks such as HF radio and other "constrained communication channels". The two military specifications which have evolved to deal with such a messaging environment are ACP 142 and NATO's STANAG 4406 Annexe E. This paper describes scenarios that require these special technologies, gives an overview of the technologies describes Isode's approach to implementing them.

You can read this whitepaper in full on the Isode site.

M-Box for Solaris, Military Messaging Enhancements and significant changes to Isode's cross-platform Demonstration X.400 User Agent (XUXA) in Release 11.5

We're pleased to be able to announce that the latest Isode release, 11.5, is now available for download by evaluators and customers from the Isode website. R11.5 is a major release of the full Isode product set and includes extensions to the Open Group X.400 Gateway API to support STANAG 4406 Military Messaging, significant changes to our cross-platform Demonstration X.400 User Agent (XUXA) as well as source code availability and the availability of our POP/IMAP message store, M-Box, for Solaris 9.

Extensions to the Open Group X.400 Gateway API to support STANAG 4406 Military Messaging.

The Open Group X.400 Gateway API is a standardized API to X.400 services, that covers core commercial X.400 functionality. Isode has specified and implemented extensions to this API to support STANAG 4406 Military Messaging. These extensions also include support for the standard X.400 File Transfer Body Part, which is not covered in the Open Group specification.

These extensions will be of interest to vendors developing products that need to integrate with STANAG 4406 Military Messaging. The product is available immediately as a part of Isode's Open Group X.400 API Developer's Kit.

Significant changes to our cross-platform Demonstration X.400 User Agent (XUXA) as well as source code availability.

Isode's first release of XUXA (Isode's cross-platform demonstration X.400 User Agent) was made with R11.4. XUXA is designed to help developers using Isode X.400 Client APIs (Java and 'C') and to demonstrate and test X.400 Infrastructure.

XUXA 2.1, included with R11.5 provides a number of detailed improvements, in particular better body part handling (including general text and File Transfer Body Part) and support of InterPersonal Notifications (IPNs).

XUXA's Java source code is now available as an Eclipse Project, to enable users of the Isode client APIs to see a full example use of the APIs. This is of particular interest to users of the Java client APIs, but may also be of interest to 'C' developers.

M-Box for Solaris 9.

M-Box is a high performance Internet Message Store, supporting IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) and POP (Post Office Protocol). M-Box features excellent horizontal scaling and easily outperforms rival message stores.

M-Box is a key element in Isode's solution for Service Providers and is available for evaluation today as part of Isode's Internet Messaging Solution for ISPs or on it's own.

General information on this release is available from the release page.

New whitepaper from Isode: LEMONADE Profile - The key standard for mobile messaging

LEMONADE is the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) technology being standardized for support of Mobile Email. Isode has been an active participant in the LEMONADE working group and we'll be incorporating the Profile in to the next major release of our messaging servers (R12).

The LEMONADE Profile is approved, and it is anticipated that it will be published shortly as an Internet Standard. A new whitepaper on our website, "LEMONADE Profile: The Key Standard for Mobile Messaging", explains what the LEMONADE Profile is about and why it will be the central specification for Open Standards mobile messaging.

You can find the whitepaper at: http://www.isode.com/whitepapers/lemonade-profile.html