RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., developer of monitoring, notification, and security solutions for System i, AIX, and Linux, announced today new enhancements to its MessengerPlus and MessengerConsole solutions that make it easier than ever to automate monitoring and notification to cell phones worldwide.
These new enhancements to the company’s popular systems management solutions put the power of GSM and SMS protocols into the hands of System i administrators, allowing simple and quick wireless distribution of messages to any cell phone in the world without the need for a paging provider, phone lines, or modems. Messages are received anywhere across the globe in seconds.”This update to Messenger acknowledges the change in how our customers communicate,” says Bytware CEO Michael Grant. “Today everybody carries cell phones or Blackberries, not pagers. With this enhancement, MessengerPlus and MessengerConsole can be used as a real company-wide text messaging system. We’ve cut the strings for System i.”

In addition to enabling easier wireless messaging, the GSM/SMS enhancements also eliminate the compatibility issues that can affect international users. In many areas of the world, variations in phone service can make it difficult to successfully set up automated notification to mobile devices. By sending messages phone-to-phone using standardized text-messaging protocols, Messenger now eliminates these issues. All that is needed is a number and a phone capable of receiving a text message. The receiving device does not even need to have GSM or SMS capabilities.

MessengerPlus and MessengerConsole with enhanced GSM/SMS features are available now. Comprehensive information about Messenger and free trials are available on Bytware’s website at www.bytware.com or by calling 800.932.5557.

RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., announces that with the increasing popularity of SMS/GSM notification devices, specifically in North America, and with the recent announcement that AT&T is moving from TAP to SMS/GSM standards, Bytware’s Messenger products support of this emerging protocol has been enhanced.Bytware’s Messenger products now support SMS (Short Message Service) paging, using the GSM (Global System Mobile Communication) protocol. This service will not require a paging company and will allow the user to connect a cell phone (or other GSM device) directly to the AS/400 to use as a modem. You will then be able to send text messages directly to other cell phones and pagers, as well as reply to messages sent using the GSM protocol. The receiving device does not need to be GSM.

This enhancement to MessengerPlus and MessengerConsole 5.56 provides support for using a GSM mobile phone as a modem. Using a GSM modem provides the following advantages:

• SMS messages can be sent directly without the use of a TAP or e-mail gateway.
• System messages can be answered by replying to the SMS messages.
• SMS messages can be sent to any other phone, or pager in the world without the need for multiple gateways. Even if the receiving device is not GSM, we have been able to send messages to multiple carriers and devices without knowing anything more than the device’s mobile number/phone number.
• A cellular phone provides improved tolerance to power failures and phone line problems. Since GSM cellular modems send their information wirelessly, modem-to-modem incompatibility issues are eliminated.

Bytware offers a suite of monitoring and notification products tailored to managing events across single, multiple, and partitioned iSeries systems. The Messenger product suite includes MessengerConsole and MessengerPlus. Learn more about our monitoring, paging, and consoling solutions.

RENO, Nevada—AT&T Wireless text messaging on the TAP gateway has been discontinued by AT&T as of August 31, 2003. As AT&T is now referring to this as an enhanced service, AT&T now offers two fee-based services for text messaging to both TDMA and GSM devices: 1) AT&T Wireless Enterprise SMS; or 2) EFI Unimobile Mobile Messaging.

AT&T Wireless Enterprise SMS connects your applications directly to the AT&T Wireless SMPP Gateway via Frame Relay or VPN. EFI Unimobile Mobile Messaging provides a direct connection to the AT&T Wireless SMPP Gateway. The AT&T Wireless SMPP Gateway provides the capacity to support large volumes of messages and provides more reliability and security features than ever before. For more information regarding the two alternative options offered by AT&T, please visit: http://www.attwireless.com/tap/.

Messenger Enhancement Supports SMS/GSM
Bytware values our AT&T customers and therefore has developed an enhancement to the Messenger product line that provides support for sending SMS messages. Using a GSM modem to send SMS messages provides the following advantages:

• SMS messages can be sent directly without the use of a TAP or email gateway.
• System messages can be answered by replying to the SMS messages.
• SMS messages can be sent to any other phone or pager in the world without the need for multiple gateways.

Even if the receiving device is not GSM, we have been able to send messages to multiple carriers and devices without knowing anything more than the device’s mobile number/phone number.
A GSM modem provides improved tolerance to power failures and phone line problems. Since GSM cellular modems send their information wirelessly, modem-to-modem incompatibility issues are eliminated.

To view the requirements for SMS support or download the enhancement, please visit: http://www.bytware.com/support/auth1/mplus/sms.html. (Requires valid Bytware Messenger support ID and password.)

Bytware’s Messenger products offer the most inclusive paging functionality available today not only supporting GSM and SMS pager device types, but also all TAP protocol paging services, e-mail (SMTP) messaging, and workstation alerts. If you are an AT&T customer and wish to switch to another service provider that supports the TAP protocol, or if you would like to configure your AT&T device to receive e-mail messages, please contact our Technical Support staff for assistance or reference the instructions included in the online product documentation (PDF; 1.38MB).