Nokia anticipates messaging boost

Nokia expects its next jump in growth to come from delivering messaging to the masses as Nokia's Ovi mail and Mail for Exchange evolves into Nokia Messaging, a single application which will let users access all their messages and inboxes from one place, reports Sify Business.

According to the Web site, the market for messaging consists of three consumer groups: the first group comprises enterprise customers, who already use servers such as Microsoft's Exchange or IBM's Domino. The second group comprises about one billion people who already have a Web mail account with Gmail, Yahoo, and Rediff. Third is the 'potential' group.

Mark Thomas, Nokia's director of product marketing, consumer messaging, and services, says Nokia's mission is to “take messaging to everyone”.

Mellanox has provided a way for servers to share Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters slotted into a BridgeX product at the edge of an InfiniBand network, writes Channel Register.

The Mellanox view of the world is that, currently, servers in enterprise and high-performance computing data centres can have as many as three different adapter cards: an InfiniBand host channel adapter, an Ethernet network interface card, and a Fibre Channel host bus adapter.

Each one has to be acquired, managed and powered, adding to the data centre costs. By positioning them in a bridge device at the edge of an InfiniBand network, the servers on that network can use InfiniBand as a unified networking backbone and share adapters to increase utilisation, simplify cabling, lower power consumption, and reduce cost.

Nokia Siemens Networks has introduced open hardware architecture for deploying its core network applications, such as mobile soft switching and IMS, states CBR Networking.

The new architecture allows operators to benefit from new software-based multi-application platforms running on off-the-shelf hardware blades.

According to Nokia Siemens Networks, by using commercial off-the-shelf platforms, its customers can benefit from new hardware that employs the latest advances in network server technology as they evolve their core networks to support Long Term Evolution/System Architecture Evolution.