Jeff Brainard

Today's message networks take on tomorrow's advanced messaging and unified communications services. With over 40 billion e-mails sent each day, the world's communications backbone is increasingly traveling across message networks. Businesses execute transactions, partnerships, sales, negotiations, and marketing through their e-mail messages. Consumers chat with friends and family, read newsletters, and buy products. Furthermore, technology innovations are converging traditional voice, data, and wireless networks, so messages take shape not only as e-mail, but also as videos, voice mails, animated greetings, images, Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) mobile messages, and faxes. As message networks take on an increasingly central role in our communications, users need more flexibility to access their critical information from any device... (more)