Released on: January 17, 2008, 2:27 pm

Press Release Author: Brian Blank / FutureWorks, Inc.

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: New Open standard Scheduling features enables Apple
Enterprise Class Solution

Press Release Body: Mill Valley, Calif. - January 17, 2008 - CommuniGate Systems,
the leader in carrier-class Internet Communications solutions, today announced the
addition of CalDAV support to its industry leading Unified Communications platform.
The CalDAV standard lets users share scheduling resources and calendar events to
boost collaboration and productivity throughout the enterprise. As a standards-based
solution, the CommuniGate Pro platform works across multiple calendar standards,
such as iCalendar, MAPI, WebCal, and now CalDAV for seamless interoperability of
clients and organizational scheduling services.
With the new CalDAV support, Mac OS users can reap huge benefits through shared
calendaring and scheduling, without having to rely on Microsoft client or server
products. CommuniGate Pro's calendaring services enables colleagues to share
calendaring resources regardless of their chosen operating system and client
software - Microsoft Outlook in Exchange mode, Apple iCal, CommuniGate Pro Pronto!,
and any other CalDAV client. As a result, Mac OS users can still communicate with
companies using Microsoft Outlook or other client products.
In addition, CommuniGate Pro provides network operators and ISPs with a new Software
as a Service (SaaS) offering, particularly for the Mac enterprise market. As a
multi-tenant carrier grade platform, CommuniGate Pro drives additional revenue
opportunities for ISPs by providing powerful calendaring applications to SMB
customers with a wide choice of client technologies not found in other messaging
servers.
CommuniGate Pro's calendaring features are tightly unified with all other methods of
communication - voice, video, e-mail, presence, chat, and other groupware
applications. Users enjoy a single identity and secure login for all their Internet
Communication methods, greatly simplifying communications and accessibility. With
CommuniGate Pro's Mobility Suite, users can seamlessly access calendar, e-mail, and
other data from their computer or mobile device. The Unified Communications platform
significantly reduces administration requirements, as a single CommuniGate Pro
server can do what often requires many servers and software packages to deliver
Calendar, e-mail, XMPP (Jabber), SIP (VoIP), WebMail and directory services.
"As Enterprises are moving from legacy messaging systems toward Unified
Communications, they are looking to avoid getting locked into closed platforms like
Exchange 2007. The uptake in Apple laptops and iPhones in 2007 is a compelling
indication IT managers are seeking more reliable, more secure, user-friendly, and
multi-media capable technologies. It's critical the applications powering these
products share the same qualities of performance and reliability," said Jon R.
Doyle, Vice President of Business Development for CommuniGate Systems. "CommuniGate
Pro has the clear distinction for over a decade now, as the most reliable and
powerful server for Apple products. We look forward to expanding the CalDAV
features, especially for the iPhone and over-the-air (OTA) support."
"Sharing information and staying on top of our client's project deadlines with
dependable communication is crucial to our success. We have used CommuniGate Pro for
over five years now as our messaging platform and consider it to be a rock solid and
powerful server we can depend upon. " said Jonathan Gerfen, IT Manager at San
Francisco's Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, voted Adweek\'s U.S. Agency of the Year
in both 2006 and 2007. "We are pleased to see the addition of CalDav support on the
platform as we have a variety of computers and operating systems in the company and
can now enable new rich scheduling capabilities."
CommuniGate Pro offers a scalable Unified Communications platform that enables
enterprise organizations and service providers to seamlessly expand from five to 50
million subscribers in virtual domains with a modular feature set, powerful Class of
Service provisioning, and a live Rolling Updates change management capability not
found in legacy enterprise class messaging products. The platform's exclusive
Dynamic Clustering architecture provides 99.999% uptime with no single point of
failure, and allows SaaS providers to add front-end or back-end nodes as needed
without any downtime or service interruption.
The CommuniGate Pro platform can provide services for Consumer and Business
subscribers through the Messaging Suite, Web 2.0 Suite, VoIP Suite, or deliver
custom applications developed in CG/PL. The CommuniGate Pro Web 2.0 Suite includes
Pronto! a sleek, unified communications client framework based on Adobe Flash® and
Adobe FlexT technology. It is available today at www.communigate.com/community and
allows free use of the CommuniGate Pro Server for five accounts or less, making it a
smart choice for small businesses or the home office network. For installations over
five users, the CommuniGate Pro Enterprise Suite is priced starting at US$899 for 25
users. ISPs, Broadband and Mobile operators, can contact sales@communigate.com for
pricing information.
About CommuniGate Systems
Founded in 1991 and based in Mill Valley, California, CommuniGate Systems develops
carrier-class Internet Communications software for broadband & mobile service
providers, enterprises, and OEM partners worldwide. Over 130 million subscribers
including 47 million voice customers rely upon CommuniGate Systems products for
their voice and data communication today. CommuniGate Systems is the most trusted
and financially stable vendor which maintains the highest customer satisfaction
levels in the Rich Media Communications industry. CommuniGate Systems provides
flexibility, performance, scalability, with the benchmark proven architecture that
remains un-challenged in the industry. Our open development environment with simple
APIs delivers extensible flexibility with a unique clustering technology for 99.999%
uptime for the most demanding application environments. CommuniGate Systems has over
175 members in its partner network worldwide.
Download CommuniGate Pro today and join the initiative to drive interoperability of
Unified Communications and convert nearly 2 billion e-mail accounts to a single
identity for all forms of Internet Communications. For more information, go to
www.communigate.com.

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Brian Blank
FutureWorks, Inc.
(408) 428-0895 Ext 114
brianb@future-works.com

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Contact Details: Brian Blank
FutureWorks, Inc.
(408) 428-0895 Ext 114
brianb@future-works.com