MWC 2012, Joyn is taking off, our views.

After 4 very hectic days at Mobile World Congress 2012 we are back creating new products to move Joyn to the next stage :-)
We would like to share our views about this MWC 2012 and what the launch of Joyn means.
Firstly, finally RCS-e technology has a common name for the service, Joyn, combining the "join", sense of community and "joy" as fun. Great branding strategy. A lot of pins delivered with the logo, name, and also with the feature icons of the service, people with shirts with the logo walking across the exibition area, a huge paint in the main corridor and a GSMA exhibition zone for Joyn vendors (we exhibited there during the mornings). GSMA did a good work to increase awarenes.

The news regarding the Vodafone Spain launch as beta with an app for Android means that today Joyn is a live service and now is when the playground is open. New telcos joining and devices Joyn enabled will come soon.
Even Apple says it is not interested in supporting Joyn, Joyn apps for iPhone are being tested by client vendors with a very good user experience, then, Joyn will be also present in the "Apple world", and our web client based in RCS-e Thin Client Server can be in Apple devices. Not an issue then.

A huge concern about launching Joyn expressed by carriers in the past, the lack of RCS-e enabled devices will not be a problem anymore. We were asked by several device vendors about using our RCS-e Testing Solution, already in production in a live Joyn network and verified as a way to speed up the Joyn their native clients development and testing. Some device vendors will find an opportunity in Joyn to sell their product through the carrier channel and telcos to offer a powerful service even with medium tier devices. Win Win combination.

The RCS Seminar with keynotes and panels about G5 telcos pushing forward Joyn showed commitment and they talked about more telcos planning to launch, and also US & Canada offering the service, perhaps with the enhanced RCS 5.0 release. We were glad to "listen" from that RCS-e is an start, and it is not mere messaging but a platform, a vision/message we are evangelizing time ago.

We receive a lot of visits in our shift (mornings) at GSMA stand and in our own stand at Spanish Pavilion. We were visited by telcos interested in how our technology makes RCS-e a platform, how thin (web) clients can help to launch the service in different device tiers and types of screen, how our testing solution will help them in the process of verifiying their core and devices and how "messaging" completion platform could help to improve the OTT alternative messaging user experience and give users configuration capabilities to manage their messaging settings.

We have many meetings with IMS and instant messaging vendors and client developers to partner and work together making Joyn happen. As our technology is no overlapping traditional vendors we foresee interesting cooperation ahead. We were also visited by market and business intelligence analyst eager to understand our vision and the availability of our products and we would thank them the time they spent with us.

On the other hand we find a bit frustrating that big vendors has not an open stand, they had "invitation only", while their representatives were visiting us. For us it was shocking that companies with thousands of engineers are so concerned about small companies. We do not have secret products because we think to help Joyn to grow it is needed to show all the possibilities that it will enable as soon as possible and of course we explain what we do to the people of companies who has "invitation only" stands. We prefer openness :-) and cooperation.

We expect to have many positive things to communicate this year, the results of MWC encouraged us to keep up work.

the solaiemes team

New RCS-e Web Client, because RCS-e could be also #TelcoOTT

We just unveil one of our new solutions to be showcased this MWC 2012, our new RCS-e Web Clients supporting receiving VideoShare and "app" look&feel using JQuery Mobile. New features:

- Supporting RCS-e VideoShare reception.
- Supporting "typing" & "delivery" notifications while chatting.
- Supporting file transfer from device and also from cloud personal storage in the cloud.



Now RCS-e Web Clients are powered by RCS-e Thin Client Server & RCS-e Liveserve to power the videoshare.
Next steps is a new version developed in pure HMTL5 and with WebRTC support to run two-way VideoShare and not needed flash pluggin.

We welcome telcos, MVNOs, NUVOs eager to offer new TelcoOTT services.
See you in Barcelona next week!!!

Solaiemes to exhibit at Mobile World Congress 2012.

We are pleased to announce that Solaiemes will attend the Mobile World Congress 2012 (Barcelona 27/2-1/3 2012) as exhibitor.

Solaiemes will be showcasing all the technology developed along the year to help telcos to make RCS-e a platform enabling services that could be monetized and at the same time delight their customers and engage the developers. Last year we unveiled RCS-e Solution GW (GSMA RCS DevChallenge 2011 Innovation Category Winner) and RCS-e Thin Client Server. This year we are showcasing the new feature of those 2 products and new platforms as:

• RCS-e Testing Solution to help telcos, RCS-e Clients & IM Server suppliers to speed up the IOT process to reduce the time needed to roll-out the commercial service.
• RCS-e Personal Manager which includes 2 IMS AS and allows users to configure their personal RCS-e interaction.
• RCS-e EUCR to use end-user confirmation request to secure transactions (m-banking, m-ticketing, etc)
• RCS-e XMPP GW to bridge RCS-e and XMPP communications (GTalk, FB chat, etc).
• RCS-e LiveServe to create videoshare A2P and P2A use cases and also to power the videoshare in the thin/web clients when combined with RCS-e Thin Client Server.

We will scheduling meetings with telcos eager to launch RCS-e as much more than person to person messaging, IMS & IM suppliers to partner and also open to explore corporate development opportunities.

We will be exhibiting in 2 locations:

SPANISH PAVILION. Hall 3 (Courtyard, CY22)
All the exhibition schedule.

GSMA Rich Communication Zone (Hall 8, C118)

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday from 9 to 14:15 hours
Thursday 9 to 13 hours

Solaiemes slides about the RCS-e Open & Ubiquitous approach.

Find the slides explaining our vision about how RCS-e Open & Ubiquitous as a Platform is the Telco-OTT opportunity for carriers to lead the future communications and engage the developer community. The slides also explain the role of each piece of architecture in making feasible this vision.

New Solaiemes product: RCS-e Testing Solution

We are happy to unveil our new product, the RCS-e Testing Solution, a web based tool based in our RCS-e API allowing carriers to speed up the interoperability testing of their RCS-e solution with RCS-e clients (UNI interface) and other RCS-e networks of other telcos (NNI interface).



The tool is also useful for client vendors and IMS and Instant Messaging suppliers to fine tune their products and improve the time to market.

Spanish carriers set to be first to launch RCS-e services.

Finally RCS-e is coming and the it seems that it will debut in Spain, just were we are based :-)
Vodafone, Telefonica & Orange will launch this H1 RCS-e interoperable, firstly with mobile app client and native RCS-e enabled devices will come along H2 this year.
We believe that it is the right move, users are demanding enriched comms, and the OTT had demonstrated the traction of this services. Once said that, we expect, and it is our focus that RCS-e will be something else than another person to person messaging alternative :-), you know our RCS-e Open & Ubiquitous approach being trialed in some telcos by today.
A funny anecdote, we saw the counter of one of our videos in youtube rising and rising with no reason and we discovered that our video was embedded by a online newspaper in Spain as what RCS-e :-). See http://noticias.lainformacion.com/economia-negocios-y-finanzas/asi-funcionara-el-nuevo-whatsapp-de-telefonica-vodafone-y-orange_LXeDdlCEz1pgABfd8jzrx7/
Thanks, hope in the next future RCS-e usage will be as what we are promoting.

Solaiemes joins the GSMA

We are pleased to announce that Solaiemes has joined the GSMA as an Associate Member (vendor status). Solaiemes since early stage company participated in the GSMA Mobile Innovation Market, exhibited at Mobile World Congress and participated in several GSMA awards competitions.  Finally we are members as the company must join the relevant referent of our industry.
Solaiemes has been pushing RCS-e technology, and making contributions mainly in the RCSe APIs. With the new status we will be able to join the meetings and work more closely with telcos and other vendors pushing ahead RCS-e messaging.

The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. Spanning more than 220 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world’s mobile operators, as well as more than 200 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset makers, software companies, equipment providers, Internet companies, and media and entertainment organisations. The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as the Mobile World Congress and Mobile Asia Expo.

Happy new year 2012. Solaiemes wishes.

This year ending today, 2011 we reached some important milestone, we won the RCS DevChallenge 2011, we got new customers in new markets. Also, finally RCS-e is happening and soon will be a common services launched by most of telcos. In this area, we are pioneering how messaging may be something else than person to person chat and the market.
We have still points to improve, and the key is the corporate development, some current & potential customers like what we do but they need to acquire technology to big stablished telecom suppliers. It's time then to work hard in corporate development to grow, funding, strategic partnerships, etc...and the coming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will be a good opportunity to meet with customers, potential customers, potential partners, VC's and other vendors.
We look forward that 2012 will be a good year for the telecom industry, with carriers lauching new services and suppliers working close with telcos and these new services improving the people welfare.
Happy New Year 2012.
the Solaiemes team

Solaiemes attended Iberian Telecom Summit

Solaiemes attended and presented its RCS-e portfolio in the Iberian Telecom Summit event in Santiago de Compostela on December 14th.
For us it was a good opportunity to meet new  fix and cable operators which are now acquiring LTE spectrum and looking for applications and solutions to empower their offering. Also VoIP carriers were interested in having their own OTT solutions to offer to their customers.
We shared the stage with impressive companies as Acme Packet, Broadsoft, IPtego and the organizer (and our partner in some projects) Quobis :-) It is incredible how many companies are working hard to deliver outstanding solutions to the carriers to help them in the transition from legacy communications scenario to the new IP world with different types of competitors.
It is important that vendors and carriers will meet in this kind of events to share views and find spaces of cooperation. We are here to help them improve their business and customer loyalty.
Looking forward the next year one !!!

Solaiemes "RCS-e is a platform" video.

We have explain in several posts our views about the telco messaging possibilities and how we envision RCS-e as a platform, a common experience to create person-to-solution, and ubiquitous person-to-person use cases on top. We have compiled several of the things of our RCS-e API technology is making feasible. Feedback welcome.

Solaiemes explained its RCS-e as a Platform vision in Telco 2.0 event.

Solaiemes participated in the New Digital Economy event, organized by STL partners (the original coiners of the term "Telco 2.0"), on Nov 9th. This is a "must attend" for strategists and anybody interested on, as the event name says, "Strategic Threats and Opportunities" for telco service providers.

The agenda covered many different topics and approaches, and RCS was the focus of several sections, with a very nice presentation on what RCS is, how it can complement and live along OTT offers, including a real live demo, by Dr. Rainer Deutschmann, Deutsche Telekom, and Cenk Serdar, Vodafone, and followed by a lively debate.

We were invited to present our view on how RCS-e is as much a platform as an end-user service, and showed some of the possibilities and sample use cases that could be enabled by allowing third parties to use enablers, very well received by an audience that have not been exposed to this approach before in the most part, and with encouraging tweets from the floor.

A very enlightening event, with many different point of views, and a format that encourages and makes very easy participation and exchange of ideas. "Chance Favors the Connected Mind" (Steven Johnson), don't miss the opportunity to attend the next one.

Jose Recio

Our view from past Rich Communication 2011 event in Munich.

Last week we attended the Rich Communication 2011 event in Munich, we participated in a panel defending our view about consider and deploying RCS-e as a platform to enable use cases and not a mere only person to person messaging. We explained our view in the panel, and previously in our demo slot we showed how we are this feasible with APIs and Thin Clients. Also we presented first time the demo of our new product RCS-e Personal Manager.

The G5 representatives from Vodafone, Telefonica, Deustche Telekom, Orange and TIM explained the project and the timeline, with all of them to offer the service by the H1 2012. It seems most of device manufacturers are committed to include RCS-e natively, and GSMA will launch a RCS-e App Client to cover other mainstream platforms (IOs & Android).
There was a lot of discussions about if RCS-e is the SMS replacement or something else (our view), how to monetize, and how to get traction in a very competitive segment with several OTTs (over the top) with interesting solutions.
In our opinion, both, companies creating communication services using the data connectivity (commonly referred as OTT) and telcos may be not considered full antagonists or deadly rivals. We believe in cooperation models and innovation to delight the users. A good communication shared model will allow internet companies with focus on e(m)-commerce, location, etc perhaps try to reach the users using universal communication services rather than creating a new "messenger" only for their use case. The task for telcos is how to design their wholesale offering of API's and perhaps some mediation of API usage to create a powerful model to boost mobility and user/customer engagement.
Finally, from the demos, we may say that there are RCSe available clients from different vendors, device client SDKs, and available server side REST APIs (ours) :-)
The networking was very good with senior representatives from telcos, leading vendors and analysts with different points of view, all of them enriching the discussion.

The technology is here, and time is gold to launch and let the ecosystem work.

Solaiemes new product: RCS-e Personal Manager.

We are glad to present the first demo of our new product, the RCS-e Personal Manager, the platform combining the principles of Intelligent Network applied to messaging and the user capability of customizing their own messaging strategy.



RCS-e Personal Manager allows to set filters and auto responses bases on the sender and/or time intervals, and create scheduled events to be sent using RCS-e on your behalf even if you are offline.
The user has a library to edit the media (text, pics, audios) to be used to create auto responses and scheduled events.
Soon more features as specific mobile configuration tool webApp and videoshare based events.

Feedback welcomed
Solaiemes team.

Solaiemes in the coming Rich Communication 2011 event.

We will be in Munich next week, 24-26th october to attend the Rich Communication 2011 event, organized by Informa Telecom & Media.

We will demo our RCS-e technology to create services on top of messaging, and will participate as panelist in the panel:
"Is RCS a standalone offering, or, can it be seen as an Enabler for other Applications?"

Our technology is just focused in enabling VAS use cases on top of messaging user experience, and will try to explain how the use of RCS-e as something else than person to person messaging is the way of telcos to lead innovation by exposing telco RCS-e API from the launch of the RCS-e service.

See you there ;-)