CIBERNET Releases 'MXP' - A New Billing Exchange Protocol For Wireless Data and M-Commerce.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2001 CIBERNET, a subsidiary of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. ), announced today the release of its new Mobile Xchange Protocol (MXP MXP In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mexican Peso. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) designed to permit the wireless industry to bill for non-traditional (i.e. non-voice) services. MXP accomplishes more than any existing inter-company billing protocol and was developed to meet the needs of mobile application developers, wireless carriers, content providers, and billing and mediation vendors. MXP is designed to support revenue sharing business models and provides the flexibility needed to exchange wholesale billing details for any service: m-commerce, messaging, voice, and data. MXP can function across CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. , TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). , GSM, IDEN, and 3G air interface technologies. MXP uses the eXtensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. "XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. ", an open standard to define data structure and record formats, which allows exchanges of data between applications on different networks. MXP was also designed as a full, end-to-end process that describes the rules and procedures to prepare, exchange, validate, and return business-to-business transactions. "All players in the emerging mobile Internet space are looking for ways to generate revenues that flow to the bottom line," said George Shaginaw, CIBERNET President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Regardless of the nature of each transaction, someone will need to collect revenues for service provided and in many instances share the revenue stream. To do so, service details must be compiled, rated, and exchanged among systems and trading partners. The MXP protocol meets these requirements." Receive detailed information about the new MXP product at: www.cibernet.com or through e-mail at: info@cibernet.com. About CIBERNET CIBERNET Corporation is owned by The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA). Since 1988, CIBERNET has provided the wireless industry with inter-company billing protocols, roaming administration tools, and financial settlement programs. CIBERNET serves over 300 customers in more than 79 countries across all wireless air interface technologies and settles $6 billion (US) annually in service transactions. CIBERNET has offices in Washington, DC, London, England, and Hyderabad, India. |
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