Welcome Guest. | | | Membership Benefits

General Dynamics Implements Jabber XCP For Homeland Security Applications

"XMPP has gained significant traction within the federal government as an interoperable, extensible, real-time routing protocol."

By Messaging Pipeline Staff
Messaging Pipeline
September 26, 2005 12:59 AM

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems and Jabber, Inc. have created a partnership to provide the instant messaging company's product line of secure and scalable enterprise messaging and presence solutions to customers in the defense, intelligence and homeland security markets.

Combined with General Dynamics' mission awareness capabilities and established relationships with other commercial collaboration tools, including InfoWorkSpace and Groove Virtual Office, General Dynamics is trying to solve the interoperability issues associated with information sharing for government customers -- from first responders to military commanders to intelligence officers.

The Jabber, Inc. product line includes the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP). Jabber XCP is a programmable Extensible Markup Language (XML) messaging framework that leverages presence to weave applications, networks, devices, multi-media and protocols together into a real-time information sharing environment. The platform uses the Jabber Foundation's open-source Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). XMPP has been approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a standard for instant messaging and presence technologies, and ratified as a standard within the U.S. Department of Defense.

"XMPP has gained significant traction within the federal government as an interoperable, extensible, real-time routing protocol for the movement of mission-critical information, such as instant messages, presence and structured data between previously non-interoperable systems," said General Dynamics' Mark Kusiak who is Director of Homeland Security and Information Assurance.

"Jabber XCP is a proven, carrier-grade, multi-protocol router for efficiently transporting messages based on presence at wire speed, and one that can scale up and down to meet the varied and evolving needs of our government customers," said Kusiak, who added, "The addition of Jabber, Inc. to our current offerings is significant and will allow General Dynamics to provide interoperability among these and other leading commercial collaboration products."

» Write To Editor

CAREER CENTER

Ready to take that job and shove it?

Open | Close

Browse By:
|

SPONSOR

RECENT JOB POSTINGS

Featured Jobs:

For more great jobs, career-related news, features and services, please visit our .

CAREER NEWS

Go beyond Google and get vertical. These specialized search sites will help you find the business information you need -- fast.

Ari Balogh was named to the post of chief technology officer as the companys for a "realignment" of employees.

Featured News White Paper

Web Reputation Filters�Battle the Latest Web Malware Threats
IronPort Web Reputation Filters� are designed to combat the dynamic nature of malware. Today�s threats are no longer found as an email attachment. Instead, they are well orchestrated � utilizing social engineering techniques and target legitimate websites. As the first line of malware defense, IronPort Web Reputation Filters analyze more than 5 billion Web transactions daily � blocking up to 70 percent of malware at the connection level, prior to signature scanning. By leveraging its global footprint of URL traffic data IronPort�s Web reputation system is able to offer an industry-leading 60 percent higher malware catch rate than traditional signature scanners. read more