Jibe Mobile Bringing Carriers to the WebRTC Cloud

The cloud computing revolution hasn’t been lost on carriers who are looking for less expensive and more flexible ways to serve their customers. Moreover feature velocity is a challenge – otherwise explained as the ability to rapidly add new and innovative features in a low-cos manner. Jibe Mobile is a Silicon Valley company helping carriers become competitive in this new paradigm according to the company.

In October of 2013 they sold a full RCS suite to Sprint – and their software is preloaded on all the Android phones they sell. An iOS download is available as well. (download)

The client name is Messaging Plus – a full RCS 5 client with WebRTC media built natively into it. Opus and VP8 are supported.

Because SIP is difficult to do efficiently on an iPhone they use the OMA REST API for signaling – they further extended it and make it available to developers. Their SIP to REST gateway looks to the IMS core like a SIP client – but multiplexes signaling channels – allowing one signaling path for multiple clients. It can be deployed on the northbound side of an SBC or outside of the network in the cloud.

Neil McGrath Director of sales and engineering for the company walked me through a demo of Messaging Plus at WebRTC Expo Atlanta 2014.

McGrath further explained the company is in final talks with four tier-one carriers in Europe (see a related TMCnet story on the company detailing their solutions and wins).

What this tells us is the cloud and WebRTC are major themes that carriers are migrating to in order to lower cost and increase flexibility. It seems traditional equipment providers have to step up their game to compete with the new service provider options available on the market and to that end, most of them are at WebRTC Expo this week making their case.

The world of disruption keeps chugging along thanks to cloud and WebRTC.

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