August 26, 2008 – Denver, Colo. and New York, N.Y. – Jabber, Inc. and ooVoo today announced that ooVoo has chosen the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform™ (Jabber XCP™) to power its real-time face-to-face video communication service.
ooVoo enables users to have online, face-to-face presence-enabled video, audio, and text chats, send video messages, record video chats, send and receive files, and import contacts from other programs. The Jabber XCP multi-protocol presence server allows ooVoo users to immediately see the presence of a friend or colleague online and click-to-video call, click-to-instant message, or start a group chat, ensuring a high-quality experience for video, voice, and chat messaging to its customers.
“ooVoo is the leading online video communications service that delivers unsurpassed video quality, crystal clear audio, and an easy-to-use interface,” said Philippe Schwartz, CEO of ooVoo. “With millions of video calls taking place—on both PC and Mac computers—ooVoo needed a massively scalable and interoperable presence server to provide our customers with a highly interactive presence-enabled video and voice communications experience.”
Based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), Jabber XCP ensures a seamless and enjoyable user experience—even during peak usage times—through its highly available architecture. Jabber XCP’s linear scalability continuously delivers a high-quality of service without latencies and time lags.
“XMPP is quickly emerging as the de facto standard for presence and messaging on the Internet and Jabber is the leading provider of the most scalable, extensible, highly available, and secure XMPP platform on the market,” said Paul Guerin, CEO of Jabber. “ooVoo has built an impressive web-based collaboration application that combined with Jabber XCP provides industry leading presence-enabled video and voice for its customers.”
ooVoo is a 2008 Red Herring “100 North America” and a CNET “Webware 100” award winner. To download free ooVoo software, visit http://www.oovoo.com/download/.
To learn more about Jabber’s presence-enabled video and voice communications, send an email to info@jabber.com, or call 303-308-3231, ext. 2.
ABOUT JABBER, INC.
Jabber is a leading provider of real-time presence and messaging solutions. More than ten million users—representing hundreds of telecommunications carriers/operators, financial institutions, government agencies, higher education institutions, logistics companies, and other organizations—have licensed the Jabber XCP commercial server to underpin carrier-class real-time, presence-powered applications including desktop and wireless instant messaging for enterprises and consumers, real-time trading systems, and government intelligence systems. The JabberNow™ enterprise instant messaging (EIM) appliance is targeted to small and medium businesses that require secure, interoperable, and compliant business-class EIM. Among the company’s customers are AT&T, Bank of Ireland, BT, California ISO, CapWIN, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI), Earthlink, FedEx, McKesson, ooVoo, United States Air Force (USAF), United States Marine Corp (USMC), United States Navy (USN), and Wells Fargo. For more information, visit http://www.jabber.com/ or send an email to info@jabber.com.
ABOUT ooVoo, LLC
ooVoo provides a high-quality video communication service that delivers a more meaningful way for people to call and connect over the Internet. ooVoo’s technology enables people to experience a face-to-face conversation and share a full range of emotions as if they are in the same room together, whether they are across the street or across the globe from each other. ooVoo’s superior quality video and audio is available to anyone with a computer, broadband connection and a web camera, for real-time video calls with up to six friends, relatives and colleagues simultaneously. ooVoo’s high quality video chat service includes high-resolution video, video conversation recording, telephony, video messaging, instant message chat and file sharing amongst other capabilities. ooVoo is privately held and headquartered in New York, N.Y. You can learn more and download free ooVoo software at http://www.ooVoo.com.
