Federal agencies also have a need to extend these conversations to state and local agencies, which requires interoperable solutions and broad support for agile, mobile computing platforms. Whether extending communications to non-computer users or providing a means for continuity of operations when critical personnel are away from the office, Jabber XCP's extensible architecture provides for seamless presence awareness and secure communications for wireless devices, including RIM Blackberry.

Most agencies today have a specific need for situational awareness. That is, complete awareness of the presence, availability, and status of people involved in the national mission, but also access to real-time information and data, as soon as it becomes available. Whether it be the facilitation of communications across communities-of-practice, or the dissemination of immediate conventional wisdom, Jabber XCP provides a service-oriented architecture (SOA), which allows presence to be embedded into existing mission systems. Jabber Inc.'s InfoBroker, based on a publish-and-subscribe architecture, extends presence to other systems for seamless data integration and content publication.

Jabber XCP is uniquely suited for the government sector and for agencies that have specific requirements for:

• Expertise and Analyst Swarming. Jabber XCP provides secure, robust multi-user text conferencing/group chat for disparate workgroups that need to swarm quickly around information or threat data. Jabber XCP provides the most scalable, advanced, and customizable text conferencing/group chat capabilities in the industry.
• Message Interoperability. The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is the first presence and messaging standard to be ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the only IM protocol approved by the Department of Defense's Information Technology Standards Council as a mandatory standard. Jabber, Inc. is the leading provider of XMPP-based solutions, and also offers a suite of interoperability options, allowing you to federate with non-XMPP-based services, and to communicate with the broadest possible audience.
• Device Interoperability. Jabber XCP provides for message exchange across disparate types of devices and offers a user-friendly and easy-to-administer desktop client, a zero footprint web-based client, and a client for the RIM Blackberry.
• Situational Awareness. Jabber XCP provides awareness of those who are core to your decision processes. Services can be embedded directly into your mission critical applications.

The flexibility and extensibility of Jabber XCP allows organizations to add new functionality such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) or Web conferencing through WebEx™, Cisco® Unified MeetingPlace®, and Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Professional. Jabber XCP can communicate with Active Directory and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory servers over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections, allowing authenticated communications over secure, encrypted channels. Jabber XCP also provides compliance hooks for organizations bound by regulatory requirements and is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) compliant.