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Nokia Communicates with Legacy Mobile Phones

By
iApplianceWeb
(09/19/01, 09:17:56 AM EDT)

Multimedia messaging for legacy phones got a recent boost as Nokia introduced the Nokia Multimedia Terminal Gateway, enabling mobile operators to deliver multimedia messages to non-multimedia terminals. In addition, the gateway will provide mobile handset users with the ability to store multimedia messages in personal albums.

The Nokia Multimedia Terminal Gateway, an application gateway comprised of two Sun 420R servers running Solaris 2.8, complements the earlier introduced Nokia Artuse MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) Center and will be available for mobile operators during fourth quarter, 2001.

As for network support, the Nokia Multimedia Terminal Gateway works on GSM, TDMA, CDMA, GPRS, and 3G networks. For network management and support, it is compatible with WAP, HTTP, SNMP, FTP, IMAP4, and CIMD2/SMPP/UCP protocols.

The legacy phone support provided by Nokia Multimedia Terminal Gateway will enable mobile users to participate in multimedia messaging at the start of commercial services, regardless of the terminal type. Users of legacy phones will get multimedia message delivery as a short message notification including the URL address and the password for retrieving messages via a Web browser. They will also be able to reply with a Web-created multimedia message or forward a received multimedia message to an email address.

Personal album storage is another key component of the Nokia Multimedia Terminal Gateway. Mobile handset users will be able to use personal albums for long-term storage to free up the memory on their MMS terminals. Personal albums may be accessed either via a Web interface or a WAP interface. Subscribers will be able to compose and send multimedia messages using the album service, browse existing stored messages, retrieve previously stored messages from the album, and forward retrieved messages to either an email address or another phone.

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