Colibria AS, a leading international developer of Instant Messaging and Presence Service technologies, has announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with Lucent Technologies. Under this relationship, Colibria's Companion IM and Presence Server technology has been integrated in Lucent's comprehensive, end-to-end MiLife® Presence Solution, supporting presence and group list management capabilities for IP Multimedia Subsystem-based networks, as well as traditional mobile and fixed networks. Lucent and Colibria are jointly rolling out this industry-leading solution with various customers worldwide.

Colibria's instant messaging technology can accommodate legacy interfaces, gateway interworking and other IM systems such as AIM, MSN and Yahoo. The scope of Colibria's technology enables service deployments across many applications, encompassing IMPS, Voice over IP (VoIP) and Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC).

The carrier-grade Colibria Companion presence-enabled Instant Messaging (IM) service is a scalable, flexible and future-proof solution that supports advanced presence, messaging and multimedia services. Enabling rapid and economical rollouts, it provides operators with the means to build new ARPU-increasing revenue streams. The Colibria Companion is a standardised platform that supports seamless, efficient network and service evolution. A proven solution with an international customer base, including Globe Telecom in the Philippines , the Colibria Companion was recently selected by Saunalahti Group Oyj - the fastest growing MVNO in Finland - for the first Nordic IMPS service.
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