See the new Unified Comms client based on telco assets. Combining RCS and voice you can create full UC experience in you browser combining messaging and media features. For media WebRTC is used, YES!!!! WebRTC is useful for RCS!
The 2 Solaiemes products needed are Solaiemes RCS Web Solution API and the WebRTC-Telco Gateway. The UX/look&feel can be fully customized to your requirements, do not worry :-)
See you at #MWC14 !
Hi, we recently talked about our WebRTC-Telco Gateway and its SDK enabling new innovative telco services and mash-ups with internet. We included some services, in a demo service portal, to authorize to be reached at your mobile without disclosing your number, one of them was using Facebook Connect.
Now we just built as Facebook app the service. The idea is that you may prefer not to give your phone number to new friends but have an option allowing them to call you at your number. Yes! It is possible, see how.
With this approach, both telcos and social networks can partner and offer premium services for new communication experiences with an added value, in the example, to be reachen at your mobile normally without disclosing your number.
More services coming soon!
Apart from exhibiting at the #MWC14 Solaiemes will be this year actively participating in a new collateral event, WIPjam, an event to engage de mobile developer community. We will be participating in:
Thanks to all the attendants to our webinar about WebRTC-Telco Monetization and the feedback provided with the initial polls and a short final survey. You all can access to the slides here:
Also, we would like to share the initial poll results. Some key points:
As previous years Solaiemes is exhibiting at the Mobile World Congress 2014. Our stand will be located in the Spanish Pavilion in the Congress Square in the corridor communication the Halls 4 & 5. In the Pavilion our Stand is the number 14.
Solaiemes is presenting its new products with the focus on helping telcos to monetize new enablers as RCS (Rich Communication Services) and tools as WebRTC.
Solaiemes has the right portfolio at the proper time to market but needs strong commercial partnerships (you know, in this telco world size matters) and/or get additional funding for the growth stage. We are interested in meeting:
- Telcos: mobile, fixed, triple play or even OTTs eager to integrate RCS/joyn in their offerings with monetizaton platforms and also interested in WebRTC to generate telco revenues.
- Investors: yes, we are looking for some fuel to accelerate our growth. Yes, we know that Spain is no a sexy country for VC's and telco technology is not the preferred area for investors, but we keep trying :(
- Partners: complementary technology providers or integrators wanting to pioneer RCS and WebRTC in their countries integrating our solutions.
- M&A guys from companies interested in expanding portfolio through selected acquisitions.
If you want to schedule a meeting contact us at: mwc (at) solaiemes (dot) com
See you there !!
We started yesterday a series of Webinars with a RCS Monetization one. Thanks to all the attendand online and offline to the seminar for their time and providing feedback with previous questions and a short final survey.
We decided to make public the slides as we are pioneering this area, we know some competitors will be copying our pitch soon. It would not be the first time but copying slides is easy, make it happen is more difficult :-)
If you want to make it happen and think RCS can be a monetizable service from the beginning, visit as at Mobile World Congress!
Solaiemes pioneered the vision of RCS as a Platform to make feasible for telcos to evolve from SMS but keeping the B2C/A2P capabilities of monetization and customer engagement.
Now, Solaiemes, 1st available RCS network API (UNI, plug&play on top of whatever RCS core solution, IMS and not-IMS based) is expanding the VAS layer with additional platforms to speed-up RCS adoption by marketers and also increase the possibilities of engagement of customers.
In the past months we have been presenting VAS platforms using RCS API to create new revenue streams, now we want to explain in a Webinar our vision and compare with what OTTs are doing, and define an strategy to make the telco IP messaging a strong player & how to do it. Join our Seminar.
We are receiving as of lately many questions about WebSockets and Telco APIs.
Solaiemes started implementing WebSockets interfaces accross all our infrastructure in 2013, with working prototypes available since the summer. We are sharing now that experience to help the operators looking at this topic. Most likely WebSocket support will be included in the RCS OMA API spec soon and Solaiemes wants, among other API flavours, offer the standardized for the customers requiring it.
In our experience, WebSockets is first and foremost useful for Telco API developers as an additional notification channel. Existing notifications can be reused without any change, because WebSockets provide a native framing mechanism and it is agnostic about the format. Existing notification processing code can be reused.
This approach makes even more sense as in many cases WebSockets won't be available (for example, behind some corporate firewalls), so it is advisable to keep existing channels (native messaging, long polling, etc.).
From the developer point of view, it is just needed to plug (or activate) javascript plugins that automatically manage the transport used (long polling, web sockets, etc.), such as Atmosphere, Socket.io, etc.
On the infrastructure side, a new notification transport is added, but existing APIs can be kept, as REST or whatever format, because there is no need to move the whole API package to WebSockets.
Solaiemes has also API invocation over WebSockets implemented. It is very easy to transform an HTTP-based invocation model (REST or pseudo-REST) to WebSockets, but in our experience the benefits are not so evident, specially as WebSockets are not as ubiquitous as other HTTP mechanisms and scalability solutions do not play well with WebSockets in some scenarios.
WebSockets may be used where its use has a positive impact but not in the cases that its applicability is a mere "reinventing the wheel" without no straightforward advantage.
We created a couple of months ago a "back to school" style mini-site to explain the concept of RCS as a Platfom and detail our products related.
Past 2 weeks we created 2 additional mini-sites with "boards" to explain additional pieces of our portfolio.
To explain the WebRTC for Telcos approach the new minisite explains our WebRTC portfolio showing the webphones and RCS web clients and also the SDK to create easily services, all of them based in our WebRTC-Telco Gateway product.
Also we included the powerful concept of the "WebRTC Telcos Services portal with a demo of portal with innovative services.
And finally, a third minisite explains our vision of "chats in your apps / in-chat services". How group chat becomes thanks to the RCS API in something cooler and more useful.
We envision the group chat as something dynamic, where "chat based bots" can be included temporarily to provide fun (chat based games) or productivity (recorder, translator, group access to a travel agent, etc).
You can see the web "Apps in your Chats"
We are working to also refurbish our corporate site www.solaiemes.com :-) Hope to be on time for the coming Mobile World Congress, we need to make clear what we have to help telcos to keep a relevant role.
We want to wish all of you but specially to our customers, partners, followers, fans and prospects :-) a happy new year.
2013 Recap:
2013 was a challenging year for us. Finally the carriers are taking seriously that they need a messaging alternative, that SMS is great but right now, a multimedia messaging using all the possibilities of the smartphone devices and the speed of 3G and 4G networks are needed.
Also, the new messaging market with free/very cheap alternatives forces service providers to think about how to monetize, and they are realizing that the potential is in the VAS, using the API. We were pioneers in this vision and were awarded by the GSMA 2 years ago, now we see our competitors repeating our pitch.
We can say we have API GW being trialed succesfully in 4 tier-1 telcos and expect some of them going to commercial models. While competitors are trying to replicate our vision we are thinking in the next layer of value, specific servers for messaging monetization as RCS Store, RCS Developer Portal and RCS Ad Server to introduce first time the contextual advertising using the chat as media.
Also we are reinventing the group chat with the "apps in your chats" concept. Telcos are in the crossroad between becoming pipe or instead to become "real service providers" offering new services that could add revenue, our goal is to help them to stay relevant and keep a role in future communications.
Also this year 2013 was the year of WebRTC and we started to create our own technology, initially to complete the RCS API GW and put voice and RCS videoshare on the internet browser without plugings but finally we extended to a full WebRTC-Telco GW with an SDK enabling the development of innovative new Telco and Telco bridging OTT services. We can say we are already competing in tier-1 telcos RFQs with this product too.
But 2013 is coming to and end and we have some goals we could not match. We were unable to raise a growth VC round (1.2-2 M€) we need to move the company to the next stage by attending and converting many of the presales opportunities we are finding. In spite of the change of mind of some telcos, now keen on working with small companies, to compete in others with need some muscle. Being a tech company based in Spain is not easy at all and sometimes even playing at home is complicated :-(
Solaiemes took off but this coming 2014 we expect to get onboard a new investor that could add the fuel needed to reach the cruising height or a strong tech company with complementary portfolio as partner for go to market.
In the short-term we expect all of you visiting our booth at Mobile World Congress 2014.
Happy New Year 2014
the Solaiemes team
Have a look to another demo of the concept "apps in your chats".
Have a look how easy could be have a chat when all the participants have not a common language, they add the translation services as a member of the chat, and get instant translation of each message.
Telcos may realize that messaging is not trying to replicate each OTT messaging new feature but exploring new blue oceans in the use of messaging.
Credits: Solaiemes RCS network API Gateway, Google Translate API, Newpace RCS core and Silta RCS Android Client
We have been following the debate WebRTC vs Telco and our position is that WebRTC is a very useful tool for telcos. WebRTC makes easy to expose their communication assets reaching the internet browsers as endpoints and also with the proper SDK as a key instrument to innovate creating new services that could be monetized.
We created a demo of WebRTC Telco Service portal, allowing telcos to sell not only voice minutes for outgoing calls but also creating a new business model. A possible new revenue could come from selling incoming minutes while allowing people to call you browser using alphanumeric codes or just being authorized using Facebook Connect. This is a way to protect the privacy of your phone number while allowing others to call you. YES, it means telcos taking advantage from internet companies stuff as well.
Our WebRTC-Telco GW product has now an SDK allowing to develope telco-WebRTC services easily. We have designed 3 services and create a Service Portal that telcos can deploy today as are UNI and can be connected to whatever IMS or VoIP server.
To create a funny and customizable user interface based on widgets we used Gridster.js a framework from Ducksboard.
Most of messaging apps are only taking care of person to person messaging only, Solaiemes thinks this is not a "finish-line" but a "start-line".
We created a demo using our RCS API Gateway, the pioneer RCS API in the market to create a multiplayer chat based "trivial-like" game. It is added to a group chat and allows you to start playing with your friends, and after finishing it disconnects from the group. Easy to play with.
It has been created using GSMA joyn innovation accelerator API environment, nothing else.
Which messaging app could be more open today to 3rd party innovation?
Our advice on RCS: telcos, launch soon, launch cloud, launch with API to allow developers to flood of content the RCS platform :-)
Credits: Solaiemes RCS network API Gateway, Newpace RCS core and Silta RCS Android Client
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