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If you are a veteran to the telecom industry, you are undoubtedly familiar with the term Unified Communications (News - Alert), however, with the advancements in technology changing daily, and multimedia aspects being integrated wherever they can, Unified Messaging is the new term that provides an even more unified solution than before.

Last month, at ITEXPO West in Austin, Texas, SoTel Systems (News - Alert), sponsor of the Unified Messaging community on TMCnet, sat down with the TMC team to elaborate on what the company does and the unified messaging solutions it offers.

Adam Goebel, director of channel sales for SoTel described the company as primarily in the business of buying and selling refurbished telecom equipment for secondary markets like Notel, Avaya and Cisco; and while that is still a large part of its business model, four years ago the company launched its IP services division to expand the breadth of its offerings. Goebel also mentioned SoTel’s latest channel program, SoSimple, which combines all of a user’s phone system needs including PBX (News - Alert), unlimited SIP trunking, product support and a warranty to provide an inclusive unified messaging solution for a three year term.

This week at CTIA, Interop (News - Alert) Technologies came out with an RCS-e solution that can enable wireless service providers to offer feature-rich messaging without the time and investment requirements of IMS. The solution is slated for general availability in the first quarter of next year.

This new solution from Interop Technologies is interoperable with carriers’ legacy technology and can be used within IMS architectures, but “what we’re trying to do is shortcut” to these advanced features without requiring IMS, explains Zitnik. The solution, he adds, has the intelligence to figure out if the messaging application should run on a legacy or newer network.

Zitnik tells TMCnet that this solution will jump start by one to two years service providers’ ability to compete in the advanced rich messaging space, while providing those companies with significant savings. The RCS solution is available on a hosted basis or for use on premises.

In related news, RPost a company that has developed Registered E-mail services, announced the launch of a new Apps Marketplace that gives anytime, anywhere access to legal electronic messaging and document services for proof, encryption, e-signatures, and high value collaboration across multiple Web-connected devices.

The RPost Apps Marketplace provides end users, IT department and developers with an easy platform to connect their existing desktop e-mail, mobile messaging, business management platforms, and Web applications, routing high value data for processing by the RPost Cloud platform, which is based on RPost's Registered E-mail technology standard.

Bookmark and stay tuned to the Unified Messaging Community, exclusively on TMCnet, for all the latest unified communication and messaging news. 

Stefanie Mosca is a Managing Editor for TMCnet, with a particular focus in wireless technologies as well as mobile and IP communications. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University and a bachelor's degree in communication from the University of New Haven. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page or follow her on Twitter (News - Alert) @stefaniemosca.